Rusted Gate Farm

10/16/2026

Have you tasted our delicious lettuce mix? If you haven't yet, now is the perfect time!

If you've never had lettuce mix this fresh and high-quality, you have no idea what you're missing. Don't live in the dark any longer - LETTUCE blow your mind!

Store hours Tu-Sa 9-530 Su 9-4
5700 Upton Rd, Central Point

10/15/2026

SALE!!!
All roasts 20% off! Sale ends 10/18
Address and hours: https://m.facebook.com/rustedgatefarm/

10/14/2026

How are local farmers and growers adapting their irrigation practices as water availability changes? 💧🌱

Join us for the fifth webinar in the 2026 Inland Rogue Water Webinar Series, where we'll hear directly from local agricultural producers about the practical realities of managing irrigation, making tradeoffs, and planning for drought.

Hear from:
💧 Dave Picanso, Rusted Gate Farm — Bringing 50 years of farming and ranching experience across a wide range of irrigation systems.

🍇 Gregory Brun, Quail Run Vineyards — Sharing how water availability, soil conditions, and production goals shape irrigation decisions in vineyard operations.

🌿 Paul DeMaggio, Jackson Soil and Water Conservation District — Offering a regional perspective on irrigation systems, common challenges, and opportunities for improving water management.

📅 Monday, October 26 | 4–5:15 PM
💻 Free online webinar

Hosted by the Inland Rogue Water Resiliency Group, this webinar offers an opportunity to learn from local experience and exchange ideas about managing water in agriculture.

Register in advance to receive the Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/93RhwTRBRL60iVLv26C3s

10/14/2026

Today is the last day to register to vote in Oregon! Register here: https://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Pages/registration.aspx?lang=en

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/10/oregon-voter-registration-deadline-is-tuesday-for-nov-3-ballot.html

10/13/2026

Organic Amendments: What Works and Why?
Wednesday, November 18th, 2026
9 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center (SOREC)
Central Point, OR

Confused by soil amendment products and marketing claims? Join American Farmland Trust for an interactive peer learning workshop exploring the science and practical use of organic amendments. Learn how to interpret soil test results, evaluate amendment options, understand application timing, and make informed decisions for your garden or operation.
You’ll explore:
- Common organic amendments and how they work
- Application methods
- Interpreting soil test results
- Biochar, crab and shrimp meal, insect frass, biologics, humic substances, and more!

Featuring research-based insights from Nan Xu of Oregon State University Extension Service, with perspectives from producers and industry representatives.

This event is free and a catered lunch from Jefferson Farm Kitchen will be provided, please RSVP to reserve your spot. Space is limited.

Register at: https://bit.ly/4xPC3hL

Questions or Accommodation needs? Contact the organizer, Carly Boyer at [email protected] or 541-546-0434.

10/13/2026

This is also true in Oregon, and nationwide.

We're so fortunate to have Montgomery's Meats Inc. in Central Point providing local meat processing for the community!

Every time you buy food from producers like us, Salant Family Ranch, The Farm Stand LLC, Lane Creek Reserve, Dauenhauer Cattle LLC, Harmon and Son, or any of our fine regional farms, you are helping ensure a robust local food system that keeps all of US, HERE, well-fed.

If we don't support our local producers even when we don't have to, we'll discover they're no longer in business when something happens to shake the supply chain.

Buying local is the best food security there is.

10/11/2026

If you can't live without Southern Oregon Sourdough, LLC loaves, you have 3 weeks to stock up before a month-long hiatus!

These loaves freeze exceptionally well. Feel free to pre-order through us: 541.423.2391 or [email protected]. Tuesday and Friday deliveries, please order at least 2 days in advance.

10/10/2026

10/10/2026

FARM FACT FRIDAY: How many people can ONE beef animal feed?

The answer puts into perspective just how much food is being produced in the pastures around us.

According to USDA data, the average steer processed in the U.S. today produces a carcass weighing around 955 pounds. That translates to roughly 670 pounds of retail beef — or about 2,600–2,700 four-ounce servings from ONE animal.

Now think about that on a larger scale:

1 beef animal = ~2,675 servings
1,000 beef animals = ~2.7 MILLION servings
5,000 beef animals = ~13.4 MILLION servings
10,000 beef animals = ~26.8 MILLION servings

That's a lot of families being fed!

Now bring those numbers home.

According to the 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture, Siskiyou County ranchers sold 31,595 cattle and calves in just one year.

Not all went directly to harvest. Many were calves and yearlings raised on cow/calf ranches like those throughout Scott Valley and sold into the next stage of America's beef production system.

But that's exactly the point.

Those cattle grazing in the fields around Scott Valley and Siskiyou County aren't simply part of our beautiful rural landscape.

They are the beginning of America's food supply.

Behind every calf are breeding decisions, calving, irrigating pastures, putting up hay, feeding through winter, caring for cattle 365 days a year and generations of families managing the land.

That's why protecting working ranches and agriculture matters.

When a ranch disappears, we aren't simply losing open space, a family business or a way of life. We're losing part of our country's ability to feed itself.

So the next time you see cows and calves scattered across a pasture, remember what you're really looking at:

Land. Agriculture. Families. FOOD.

American ranchers aren't just raising cattle.

We're feeding people — and helping protect America's food security.

10/10/2026

Produce Check-In!

Potatoes! Russet, Red, Purple, Red and Yellow Fingerling

Pears (Paragon, Bartlett, Bosc), apples (Mutsu)

Green tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, slicer tomatoes, sweet corn, eggplant, green beans, tomatillos

Summer squash

Lettuce mix, spinach, baby kale, kale bunches, Mizuna mix

Winter squash (butternut, delicata)

Jalapeño, habanero, serrano, anaheim, poblano, and bell peppers

Scallions, garlic, red onions, yellow onions

Carrots, salad turnips, kohlrabi

Cilantro, rosemary, thyme, parsley, dill

Monthly beef SALE still on thru 10/11, and brisket too!

Kombucha: blueberry-concord grape

Tu-Sa 9-530, Su 9-4
5700 Upton Rd, Central Point