Grape Lane Poultry Orgainic Farm

The source of wealth and property values is a functioning ecosystem.  Lets understand where our water comes from and how to keep the water in the ground for future generations.  There is nothing more devistating than the decline in property values due to an unstable and overused watershed.

"The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences." 

                  Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)

Take care of the land, and the land will take care of you. Established in 1836 by a trapper named Frazier, Grape Lane Poultry Farm is an original Oregon pioneer farm and spiritual site of the earlier Calapulia Natives. Grape Lane Poultry Farm is known for finding and cultivating the rare Mary Miller's Mystery Garlic and award-winning Upland Savannah Oak Riparian programs. Along with these programs are grown therapeutic horticulture and medicinal herbals. Our permaculture farming program that partners with nature have been featured in the Associated Press and articles in the Organic communities. 

Below is a 1915 picture of the original farm home which is still standing but no longer livable. A trapper named Fraizier started building the home in 1836, and the Miller family finished building it in 1934.  And below that is Oregon's only two-story chicken house under construction in 1901 and as it stands today on the farm. Also pictured are the farm activities in herbs, bees, farm culture, water harvest, and Mary Millers Mystery garlic to mention just a few of the holistic programs happening at the farm! View all our pages and learn what's new at Grape Lane Poultry Farm! 

 The antique chicken house still stands at Grape Lane Poultry Farm, but has been replace with the use of chicken tractors!

Herbs grown on the spiritual sites of the Calapulia produce unusually outstanding plants.  It is the energy of life given off the farm and it's ancient history of healing.

 A Field of Boarge

Allyson gives her heart and soul to her bees.  Being Vegan, she leaves the honey made by her bees in the hopes that they will thrive off the organic management of the farm.  The cedar trees in the back ground are amoung the 1000 trees Jayne planted all by hand when they were just a few inches tall.  And everyone of them is loved.

 A field of Chamomile!

Every garden has a purpose and everything that grows in Allyson's garden can be used for food or healing.  In this garden is a large Blackberry bush used for food, medicine and is also home and food to a variety of wonderful song birds!  The Blackberry bush is much easier to care for than a lawn and gives so much more back!  Potted Tea Trees, Elderberry and ferns, seasonal flower and herbs top off the wonder and joy of this garden.  It was in this garden that Jayne discovered the last 6 plants of the rare Mary Miller Mystery Garlic growing in and protected by the Blackberry bush.  It took her years but she was able to reestablish the garlic and it now grows in abundance on the farm!  Jayne is also an avid believer and saver of seeds for planting and sprouting.  GMO is not welome on her farm.

 Ahh the glory of  an herbal garden!

Walnuts off the 21 antique walnut trees drying in our recyled windows-dog-run-rocks-dry room!

 Genesis and Allyson hard (well at least one of us!) at work picking walnuts.

Working with FFA students putting up fencing to protect ecosystems in the Savannah's and supporting understory in Jayne's award winning riparian program.

The farm is powered by Miss Kitty shown here with Jayne as they drag over the borage seed in one of the herb fields.

Allyson also taught plow workshops and people from as far away as Ohio arrived to learn compassionate and sustainable ways to use non-draft horses to manage a small permaculture farming program.  Miss Kitty could not be trained by her “professional” breeder or her trainer and so was on her way to the slaughter house when Jayne rescued her and gave her life new meaning.   Miss Kitty was very trainable.  But only when she was loved.  Now she is very loved and is family.

Miss Kitty and Jayne during field work at a plow workshop.  Notice the cars parked in the field.  100 people participated at this particular workshop. The old house built in 1836 is no longer livable, we have built a new home established on the property and custom it's interior.

As with all the animals that live in Jayne's life, they are family for life.  Miss Kitty and Allyson are partners.