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The Past
Since our farm's beginning nearly a
century ago, we have remained a diverse operation.
Over the years, our
farm has produced flax for linen, registered
Hereford cattle for breeding stock and beef, walnuts and
filberts
(aka hazelnuts), chickens for meat and eggs, and hay for feed
and sale. Additionally, the gardens and orchards have
provided sustenance to our family, with excesses finding their
way into the local foodchain.
In 1998, Mike and Denise Dunton founded the
Victory Seed Company.
It became the
main enterprise here on the Dunton Family Farm with a
biodiversity preservation mission to
protect rare seed varieties and keep them available to gardeners
and growers worldwide. We researched the histories, located,
grew, evaluated, and produced rare heirloom vegetable seeds that
we sold to gardeners for nearly a quarter-century.
In 2022, we passed the retail operation onto a family, but here
on the farm, we remain committed to the preservation mission.
The Present
We still are raising rare, heirloom seed for the
Victory Seed Company.
 This
work is done on a rotational basis with fallow land planted in,
and harvested for hay.
The Future
We are always striving to make less of an impact on the
environment and world around us. We are hardcore
"re-users" and
recyclers and are actively experimenting with
alternative technologies. These include such areas such as
rain water collection systems,
mulching,
compost piles
and
in situ composting,
composting toilets,
hedgerow creation and maintenance, and woodlot management.
As the farmland around us is rapidly becoming industrialized and
urbanized, we are in the beginning stages of developing plans to
protect our farm from falling victim to this troubling national
trend.
We hope to maintain a position of importance within our local
community by remaining an agricultural island (open space) and
by supplying wholesome and healthy agricultural products to our
neighboring community for generations to come.
To read more about our farming philosophy, please
click
here.
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