Welcome to Dunton Family Farms
Since 1909

About Us

Located at Liberal, Oregon in the beautiful Willamette Valley of Oregon, this soil has sustained our family for generations -- through world wars with "Victory Gardens",  global economic collapse, societal unrest, and natural disasters.  We believe that with proper stewardship, the farm will continue to provide sustenance for generations to come.  To read more about what we do on the farm, click here.

Farm Visitation

At this time, we do not have the funds to support necessary facility additions, the added liability insurance, or extra staff required to accept visitors.  In our long term plans, we are hoping to grow to a point where we will be able to give tours, classes, and support onsite sales.

At this time, we offer our seeds for sale both online and via our annual mail order catalog.  We appreciate your support and look forward to opening our facilities in the future.  Until then, please take our virtual tour.

Our Farming Philosophy

We believe that we are to be good stewards of all that we have been given responsibility over.¹  It is obvious to us that we cannot ever truly possess anything.  We simply take care of it for our children's children -- as our ancestors did for us.  On this basis we believe in sustainable agriculture and the use of non-chemical, natural, healthy farming practices.  We are a Certified Naturally Grown farm.  (Refer to our position on "Organic")

If you are interested in learning more why you should support local farms and purchase locally grown food, as well as some of the less publicized nasty issues behind modern corporate farming and agriculture that is dominated by governmental agencies and multinational corporations, here is a good documentary you can watch.

1. "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it." --  Genesis 2:15

2. "Life begins the day you start a garden" -- Chinese Proverb

3. "Do not harm the land, or the sea, or the trees . . . " -- Rev. 7:3

4. "When the sun rises, I go to work, When the sun goes down, I take my rest, I dig the well from which I drink, I farm the soil that yields my food, I share creation, Kings can do no more." -- Ancient Chinese Proverb, 2500 B.C.

5. "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -- Robert Heinlein (speaking as character Lazarus Long in the novel "Time Enough for Love")

6. "We did not inherit this Earth from our Ancestors. We borrowed it from our children." -- Ancient Proverb