About Us

We produce a wide variety of crops, primarily vegetables and some fruit, all grown organically, marketing them to both wholesale and retail customers. In any given year we try to grow about 60 varieties of vegetables and some fruit. One of the reason we grow such a wide variety is to show the public what is possible to grow in our region and over such a long season. We are truly blessed by the climate and soils of the Pacific Northwest. It is mystifying to us why so much produce is brought into our region from far away! Fresher is better, especially regarding produce.

We are always trialing new varieties to see what might be better for our farm. We teach farming to folks who come to learn from us. So we grow food and farmers. Last year we taught at-risk and unemployed youth about organic farming through a hands-on program during the spring. We provided transportation, education, meals and small stipend to young people who had an interest in learning about organic farming. Our farm hosts many visitors each year, extension agents, teachers, members, neighbors, students, other farmers, chefs, produce buyers, market managers and hopefully YOU!

We are proud to supply many of the organic stores in town. We love getting our produce out there to the community at the wonderful farmers markets we are so lucky to have in the region. We want everyone to enjoy the savings, better health and flavor of our locally grown produce.

In the future we hope to add livestock; maybe chickens for eggs and dairy cows, goats and/ or sheep to produce certified organic raw milk from rotationally grazed grass fed animals. We are constantly looking for ways to better serve our community. Each year we add a new crop, crop variety, and experiment with products or new marketing venues in our quest to advance the science and practice or organic agriculture and better serve our members and customers.

Last year we started to do value added food processing. We made and sold salads made from our farms vegetables and have plans for the production of other time saving foods. These will be foods made from local ingredients, processed locally by local labor and sold in compostable containers. Please look for our new lines of farm fresh processed foods at our farm stands this season.

 For most of our farm’s history we have concentrated our product distribution on local farmers markets and wholesale customers. Four years ago we added a CSA to our marketing mix and hope to expand that channel in the future as it puts in closer contact with the end user of our products. This year we have added a new flex- plan to give  members a greater choice in what they receive in their weekly distribution. Please see our CSA page for more information on membership. Click on the button to get a listing of the farmers markets we attend, their locations, days and season of operation.

We are a long time organic farm. We produce organically because we believe in the principles of organic agriculture. These include a respect for the earth and all its life forms. Organic farms work with nature to grow food that is not tainted with man made insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, hormones, genetically modified organisms, e.coli, additives or irradiation. We are proud to be keeping American agriculture alive and doing so with sustainable methods.

At Gee Creek Farm we have taken the values and spirit of organic agriculture a few steps further. For example, our farm is 100% drip irrigated with well water saving a whopping 90% of the precious fresh water normally used in conventional irrigation. Drip irrigation puts the water where the plant needs it, at the roots, virtually eliminating the chance that fecal coliform bacteria, like deadly E. coli can get spread on the leaves, unlike what can happen with traditional overhead irrigation using surface water like river water.

Other measures we take to make our farm environmentally friendly include; the use of bio-diesel as often as possible in our farm equipment and vehicles, and the reuse and recycling of packaging and irrigation tapes wherever possible. Also, our farm is proud to pay above minimum wages and by the hour as opposed to the industry standard of piece work, as there is no minimum wage law for seasonal agricultural workers. Our efforts and decisions help to insure the sustainability of agriculture and provide our members and community with the most wholesome produce available, grown responsibly with care, integrity, pride and compassion.