Barking Moon Farm is a certified organic farm located in the Thompson Creek watershed of the Applegate Valley in southwestern Oregon. We are a family–Melissa, Josh and little Everett–who are passionate about organic farming and the revitalization of community farming systems. We grow organic vegetables on 4 acres and produce organic eggs from pastured poultry. We run a Community Supported Agriculture program, sell to the Siskiyou Sustainable Cooperative as well as sell produce and eggs at two farmers’ markets in the Rogue Valley. We also sell to local restaurants and grocery stores.
Got a nice photo of you guys at the farmer’s market today. Would be happy to email it to you. ps… I went to high school with a guy named Herschel Weeks. Do you know him? He has friends out in the Applegate but I don’t know who. Bill
HI!
I dont know how to ask. I am in Klamath Falls right now, browsing WWOOF.org and such, thinking of where I could spend a little time sweating and being exposed to the weather. Was wondering if your farm could use extra hands?
If you could, if it is no trouble, send me a email. = )
Josh
Hi,
I’m writing to inquire about what is in your chicken feed. I know you have your chickens on pasture (Yeah!) and I’m specifically interested in learning if you have soy in your feed. I’m looking forward to hearing back.
Thanks for all the hard work you do!
With Much Appreciation,
Summer Waters
Hi,
We love you guys and do our best to support the Grower’s Mareket all throughout the season! I saw on your blog you might do a winter delivery?? We’d love to talk, learn more and continue the mutual support. Please let us know. Thanks!!
What a cool place!!!
I am thinking about applying for a WEB internship position, and have been having fun looking at all the different farms. You guys are doing great things! Maybe I will get to see it for real some time come spring. Enjoy January days.
Salud! ian
Hey guys!!
Everett is cute as ever and it looks like your season is shaping up nicely! Those eggmobiles are great! We have been heavily considering adding pastured poultry to our farm and I would love to get more info/insight into these new mobiles and your operation! Thanks again for letting me help out last season. You have an amazing energy on you farm. Hope all is well…and hope to hear from you soon!
Jamie
Hi Melissa Josh and Everette,
Organics, low inputs and a good CSA system is the only way to go! … congrats on subsidizing production of healthy food for others with your efforts. Grab that niche market and make it work… don’t compete with Safeway… yours is worth more…
Our world society has highly subsidized current corporate farming systems by utilizing petro-chemicals (i.e. diesel, herbicides, insecticides, etc.) as well as large machinery that was also manufactured using energies stored in the earth (coal – which we do not really pay for either) that create and leave a very large negative carbon footprint …. none of the current systems are sustainable for the very long term… if a system is not energy and financially sustainable.. it is not sustainable.
As soon as folks in urban centers decide to support the ’small, integrated farmer’, then the ’small farm’ will become more profitable and allow for a sustainable lifestyle while producing wholesome foods.
I spend most of my life overseas in agriculture (I returned three days ago from Pakistan). Most of what I work with there (Africa, Asia, Latin America, etc) are sustainable systems already (and have been for a very long time!). The major constraints are typically… no money to move from a ‘low input sustainable model’ to a ‘high input/high production model’ to better serve urban centers that do not produce any of their own food.
By the way … my friend in the Applegate Valley was a good poet named C.Baden Powell…
Cheers and keep up the good work.
Herschel Weeks