BMX track draws amateur and pro riders to east Manatee County

Aker Brand Farms is a 15-acre BMX training facility and a dream come true for owners Jeremy Smith and Will Grant.

By Lesley Dwyer
| 5:00 a.m. March 25, 2025
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Gabe Moberly hits a jump during an Aker Sunday Session in September before the new track was installed. The cattle are fenced off from the track.

Manatee-Sarasota

Jeremy Smith and Will Grant, best friends and champion BMX bicycle riders, had two goals outside of winning races. They wanted to buy “some acres,” and build something “rad.”

Smith, 30, was an alternate athlete in the 2024 Paris Olympics, and Grant, 32, won two national titles as a teenager and turned pro at 16 years old.

Now, they’re the co-owners of Aker Brand Farms in Myakka City off State Road 64 in east Manatee County. The property is a nod to the land they had dreamed about buying for the last five years.