Lonesome Whistle Farm

Lonesome Whistle Farm offers high quality organic garlic seed, as well as table garlic for eating. We also offer open-pollinated vegetable, flower, heirloom dry beans and grain seed for your garden or farm.  We specialize in heirloom and rare varieties.  We do this in order to preserve and promote genetic diversity, introduce fellow gardeners and farmers to rare and exciting varieties, and share our passion for growing food and saving seeds. All of our seeds are certified organic and grown by us. Thanks for swingin' by our website and best of luck in the garden.

7/23/09 Dear Loyal Customers of LW,  We are sad to say that our garlic crop is a failure this year due to three weeks of no sun and solid rain in June.  Our garlic rotted in the field.  The rain came during its critical bulbing time.  The plants were looking so huge and awesome and we watched them literally disintegrate over those three wet weeks.   We were able to save the varieties for next years planting luckily.   We put 750 pounds in the ground and got back about the same.  Needless to say, we will not have any garlic to sell this year.

5/24/10 Most of the planting is done for a while.. 4 acres of 8 varieties of heirloom dry beans. 1 acre of Dakota Black popcorn, 1/4 acre of Purple Hulless Barley, 1/3 acre of vegetable and flower seed crops, with an acre and a half of gourmet garlic about a month or so away from harvest!

5/16/10- Found a really nice 1956 Farmall Cub tractor down the road for sale at a really good price. New paint, new tires, and all four cylinders even work! Our lifesaver neighbor/farmer/mechanic/machinist/giving/helpful/friend Eric checked out the tractor, engine, and gave it the nod. Back at the farm Kasey was planting the beans with the old tractor. The old tractor was running on 2 or 3 cylinders, carb was running too rich, fouling up the spark plugs. We also had an oil leak which Kasey plugged with a hose and drained down into an old oil container. She literally gave our tractor a catheter and ziptied it to the side of one of our seeders!  We knew that it was going to rain for a week straight or more (and it rained and rained and rained) so time was of the essence! We planted all day into the night. Flashes of lightning and dark rumbling clouds were coming from the south as we finished our last rows for the day. We did it....

5/15/10-  Planting beans and popcorn this week before it rains.  Jeff is trying out his converted seeder (two earthways mounted on 1951 Farmall Cub).  2pm tractor broke down in the field- that's bad...   Neighbor Eric came to the rescue for us, and we are back up and running after a day of mechanicing.  One variety of beans and popcorn are in, now to seed seven more bean varieties.

Fresh Dry Bean CSA Winter Storage Share- taking members for November 2010.  Yummy, highly versitile and nutritious food, stores indefinitely in a cool place.

"Agriculture and seeds provide the basis upon which our lives depend. We must protect this foundation as a safe and genetically stable source for future generations. For the benefit of all farmers, gardeners and consumers who want an alternative, we pledge that we do not knowingly buy or sell genetically engineered seeds or plants. The mechanical transfer of genetic material outside of natural reproductive methods and between genera, families or kingdoms, poses great biological risks as well as economic, political, and cultural threats. We feel that genetically engineered varieties have been insufficiently tested prior to public release. More research and testing is necessary to further assess the potential risks of genetically engineered seeds. Further, we wish to support agricultural progress that leads to healthier soils, to genetically diverse agricultural ecosystems, and ultimately to healthy people and communities."