Can You Say Triticale?

Triticale (trit-ih-kay'-lee) is a cross between a grass and a grain that is used for feeding the dairy cows at the farm. It has a higher protein content than a single grain, and it is a hybrid of wheat and rye grains. Triticale helps reduce erosion levels and it helps improve soil health and structure that is important for the other crops grown on the farm.

Dairy cows need high energy forage. Triticale offers a very beneficial high sugar and moderate protein feed. This highly nutritious feed for the cows is especially good for the young heifers as they receive quality nutrients with less fat which grow into healthy milk cows.

When triticale is ready to be harvested, the crops are cut, raked, chopped, and stored in the silos. Triticale is cut in a green stage which is called flag leaf harvest. It is harvested in the early spring and produces about 10 tons of feed per acre! That is a lot of food for the cows! It is important to produce and feed quality silage to the milking cows. The harvest of triticale comes just before it is time for the corn to be planted at Fort Vannoy Farms.

Come on out and visit the farms and the fields to see what is growing and changing everyday!

Saturday Farmer's Market

Fresh basil starts and plenty of other plants to get your garden planting well underway are available at the Grants Pass Grower's Market on Saturday. The are also many different varieties of tomatoes, lettuce, melons and much, much more.

Here is another sample of our beautiful hanging baskets to add color to home. These mixed flowers will bloom all summer long with a little bit of watering and sunshine.

Here is part of the strawberry field and there are literally thousands of plants in this section. Over ten thousand berries were planted a year ago. The ripe sweet flavor is evident in abundance. Be sure to pick up local fresh strawberries, cauliflower, onions, and more at the Grants Pass Grower's Market on Saturday.

Berries Galore for Memorial Day!

Just in time for a festive Memorial Day Weekend, Fort Vannoy Farms have plenty of sweet, ripe strawberries freshly picked from the local fields. The berries are available at the Medford Grower's Market on Thursday, at the Grants Pass Grower's Market on Saturday, and everyday at the Farm Stand.

You will also find the beautiful strawberry baskets full of the tasty-sweet, juicy-ripe fruit! They add color to your deck or patio and the strawberries will ripen continuously throughout the summer months, or if you prefer your own little strawberry patch, we have plenty of transplants full of blossoms.

There are also blue and pink petunia baskets that will add the summer color we have all been waiting for this spring. Come on out to the market this week and gather all of the colors of Old Glory: RED strawberries, WHITE blossoms, and BLUE petunias. Fort Vannoy Farms would like to extend a special thanks to all of the men and women who serve our country. Happy Memorial Day, see you at the market!

Meet Us at the Market

We have been farming all week to bring you bunches of yummy fresh produce and healthy plants for your garden starts. Meet us at the Grants Pass Grower's Market, Saturday, 9-1. We will be the ones with big smiles on our faces!

Visit us at the Market

Here the farmers are laying out row covers as the soil and air temperatures are warm enough for tender transplants. Speaking of transplants, visit us at the Grower's Market today in Grants Pass. There will be many hanging baskets, tomatoes, strawberry baskets and more to delight your senses! See you at the market.

Perfect Weather

Life on the farm is busy with the plowing and the tilling and the cutting and the hauling and the planting and the list goes on for the farmers hard at work. The days are getting longer, the wind is getting warmer and the weather is perfect for all of the work in a farmer's day.

Salad Bar Selections

Mmmm, so many choices of vegetables just for your salad garden! There are candy onions and red onions, early Dutch and late Dutch cabbage, purple cabbage, lemon cucumber starts, and tomatoes galore just to mention a few! Then there is the leafy red and green lettuce, oak lettuce, butter head lettuce and the list goes on. Stop by the living salad bar at the farm stand today to get your own salad bar garden started!

See You at the Market

There will be a big variety of plants, hanging baskets, garden starts, and flowers everywhere! Don't forget about our famous strawberry hanging baskets too! All of these healthy starts are just in time for Mother's Day! See you at the Grants Pass Grower's Market, 9-1, Saturday.

Future Farmer!

This little guy had a great time at the Spring Farm Days thanks to Floyd A. Boyd and John Deere. Tom from Floyd A. Boyd brought a variety of tractors and implements to test out and this future farmer picked his favorite tractor out! Many thanks to Tom who provided his expertise and the fleet of John Deere tractors!