We produce a wide variety of crops, primarily vegetables and some fruit, all grown organically, marketing them to both wholesale and retail customers. We also produce a full line of freshly milled flours, cereals and mixes. All of these are sourced organically from mostly regional growers. We have won great notoriety for our grain products. Last year we also started a number of new product lines. These include crackers, vegan soups, salads, deserts, sauces, salsas, hummus and some ethnic condiments. We will continue to identify and produce healthy whole foods products that will help our farm stay viable while helping to create local jobs with green, solar and sustainable produced resources.

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. We continue to educate and bring in  the unemployed  and others interested in learning organic farming to our farm to learn the skills through a hands-on approach. 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.

For most of our farm’s history we have concentrated our product distribution on local farmers markets and wholesale customers. Five 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 users of our products. This year we will continue with our “your choice” approach to CSA weekly distribution. This approach gives members a greater choice in what they receive in their weekly distribution. Please see our CSA page for more information on our plan and membership options. 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  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. We have invented a novel tape winding machine we intend to market to farmers to enhance the economics of using and reusing drip tapes. We hope that with better economics that more farms will adopt this important conservation technique. 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.