Our Story
Circle h Farm is a family-owned and -operated organic farm located on Lost Creek, near Dexter, in the Southern Willamette Valley. Run by a brother and sister team, the Circle h name comes from our great-grandparents who owned the land the farm is on. They used a circle h brand on their cattle. We are privileged to be one of the passing generations to enjoy this beautiful land. 2024 is the 16th year selling vegetables, fruits, and herbs through farmers markets and wholesale accounts. One of our greatest pleasures is providing satisfying, healthy work in a rural community.
Find us at the Lane County Farmers Market in 2024, and watch for our blueberries (u-pick or online orders) in July and August.
Organic Production
For us, being Certified Organic means:
Growing a diversity of crops and practicing crop rotation to ensure our soils stay healthy and help keep the pests in balance.
Using natural systems like nitrogen fixation, native pollinators, and natural pest controls like birds and predatory insects.
Making our own compost to promote biologically diverse soils and grow nutrient-dense food. In our case we use goat manure from a local, organic goat dairy. This means we spend a lot of time moving manure and turning compost but we strive for closed-loop systems as much as possible.
Buying organic seeds.
Farming for future generations by controlling compaction and erosion on our ground and decreasing carbon inputs for the health of the global environment.
We use soil blocking, popularized by Eliot Coleman, which “air trims” the roots and reduces transplant shock.
An experiment with making our own paper-based seedling trays means using farm-made molds and dipping them into a pulp slurry, then drying racks of 16-pack paper planters. After seeding, each cell gets torn off and transplanted into the soil, where the plant roots quickly break through the paper barrier.