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The Past
Since our farm's beginning nearly a
century ago, we have remained a diverse operation.
Over the years, our
farm has produced flax for linen, registered
Hereford cattle for breeding stock and beef, walnuts and
filberts, chickens for meat and eggs,
and hay for feed and sale. Additionally, its gardens and orchard has
provided sustenance to our family, with excesses sold into the
local community foodchain.
In 1998, Mike and Denise Dunton founded the
Victory Seed Company.
It became the
main enterprise here on the Dunton Family Farm with a mission to
protect rare seed varieties and keep them available to gardeners
and growers worldwide. We researched the histories, located,
grew, evaluated, and produced rare heirloom vegetable seeds that
we sold to gardeners for nearly a quarter-century.
The Present
 We still raise chickens (as pets and for eggs)
along with several cats and dogs, as well as hay for
mulching
and sale.
Raising seed for the Victory Seed Company remains our primary
farming enterprise.
The Future
We are always striving to make less of an impact on the
environment and world around us. We are hardcore
"re-users" and
recyclers and are actively experimenting with
alternative technologies. These include such areas such as
rain water collection systems,
mulching,
compost piles
and
in situ composting,
composting toilets,
hedgerow creation and maintenance, and woodlot management.
As the farmland around us is rapidly becoming industrialized and
urbanized, we are in the beginning stages of developing plans to
protect our farm from falling victim to this troubling national
trend.
We hope to maintain a position of importance within our local
community by remaining an agricultural island (open space) and
by supplying wholesome and healthy agricultural products to our
neighboring community for generations to come.
To read more about our farming philosophy, please
click
here.
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