Producer
Gathering Together Farm
City: Philomath, OR,
Website: www.gatheringtogetherfarm.com
About Us
Gathering Together Farm is an enterprise in certified organic vegetable and fruit production that began in 1987. Our home base is just south of Philomath, Oregon on Grange Hall Road. Many of our fields are small, odd-shaped parcels of land, 1 to 5 acres in size, hugging the Mary's River. All totaled, we farm over 67 acres. We believe that tending to the soil is pivotal to the quality of our produce. To do this we produce a variety of composts to meet the different growing needs and in turn develop rich, fertile soil.
Gathering Together is owned by John Eveland and Sally Brewer, husband and wife. John and Sally provide not only the vision that is Gathering Together Farm but are also the first ones to get their hands in the soil. They highly value the diverse staff that the farm requires to be successful. In the height of production, there will be over 120 of us working hard to nurture and harvest high-quality food, prepare it for customers, and sell it at market. Our field crews perform a variety of duties such as irrigation, cultivation, trellising, mudding greenhouses, seed propagation, harvesting, hand weeding, ditch digging, planting and transplanting both by hand and mechanically. We have 15 year-round farm field crew, which grows to around 20 come spring planting season. At the height of the summer, we can have up to 30 farm field crew members working through to the fall harvest. The portion of the crew most people see are our 'marketeers'. These are the wonderful staff that make the farm-to-you produce connection. For the winter markets we have seven marketeers on staff and as the season progresses and spring outdoor markets start opening, the staff increases to around 20. Come summer there is a total of 40 marketeer's slingin' the finest in organic produce. To keep all of this running efficiently we have a full time mechanic and assistant, who are continually maintaining our farm equipment, tractors, and transportation vehicles. We also have our office staff, chef and crew, our farm lunch cooks and our seasonal Farmstand employees.
Gathering Together is owned by John Eveland and Sally Brewer, husband and wife. John and Sally provide not only the vision that is Gathering Together Farm but are also the first ones to get their hands in the soil. They highly value the diverse staff that the farm requires to be successful. In the height of production, there will be over 120 of us working hard to nurture and harvest high-quality food, prepare it for customers, and sell it at market. Our field crews perform a variety of duties such as irrigation, cultivation, trellising, mudding greenhouses, seed propagation, harvesting, hand weeding, ditch digging, planting and transplanting both by hand and mechanically. We have 15 year-round farm field crew, which grows to around 20 come spring planting season. At the height of the summer, we can have up to 30 farm field crew members working through to the fall harvest. The portion of the crew most people see are our 'marketeers'. These are the wonderful staff that make the farm-to-you produce connection. For the winter markets we have seven marketeers on staff and as the season progresses and spring outdoor markets start opening, the staff increases to around 20. Come summer there is a total of 40 marketeer's slingin' the finest in organic produce. To keep all of this running efficiently we have a full time mechanic and assistant, who are continually maintaining our farm equipment, tractors, and transportation vehicles. We also have our office staff, chef and crew, our farm lunch cooks and our seasonal Farmstand employees.