About Crop Shop

No, we are not a USDA Organic farm as we've used both organic and commercial ammendments for our clay soil.  However, we do use approved organic pest control measures including row covers (especially for canola beetles, see pic below), biologicals (e.g. lady bugs), occasional natural botanicals (e.g. pyrethrin), and oils (e.g. soaps and neem oil).  We have not used synthetic pesticides (e.g. malathion).  Although we start hundreds of seedlings every winter in our sunroom, we also procure commercial seed potatoes, onion sets, garlic and occasional seedlings locally.  Bonnie saves seeds from our open-pollenated varieties, and we procure seeds from Johnny's Seeds, Territorial Seed Company, and other commercial outlets.  

Bonnie grew up on an Idaho potato farm and Jim on an Ozark cattle ranch, but we both worked in other industries until retirement provided time to expand the garden.  After coming to terms with "slick poo" clay, we are finally in a position to share some of what's growing.