Helios Farms
Nutrient-Dense Local Foods Raw-Jersey-Milk Herd Shares to Oregon

Cows' Names on the Jars

The name written in sharpie on the jars are cow names. When people sign up, they often call us to tell us that they can't find their name on the jars. They think it's pretty funny when we tell them those are the cow names. Being a herd share owne...

​We dried up Daisy, so you won't see her milk for a while. I'm hoping that she is bred, but if she is, she just recently was bred. So it will be next year before she's back in the line. Grandma-Sadie decided she had had enough of being in the line and went back to taki...

Jars are a critical piece for the growth of the Helios Farms Farm Share community. Stores are largely missing half gallon jars, so returning your jars right away is critical to keeping the milk flowing.

We got a new sterilizing dishwasher, and it is helping us prep the...

Abundance in the air

This canyon that holds your farm has an amazing abundance unfolding. The weather, sunshine and rain, means grass, and grass means food abundance. Calving this year has been amazing starting with six heifer calves in a row and perfectly-timed recepti...

A question that comes up around the dinner table at the farm is: "How can anyone get by with just one milk share?" We have entire families that receive one half gallon of our milk, and that one jar is apparently all they use for an entire week. At the farm, we go throu...

Winter

Winter solstice is only a month away, then the days will start getting longer again (whew). We will do our best to keep production and deliveries on track through the winter, but the number of variables go way up in Winter, and our farm resilience can be tested....

Helios Farms is breaking new ground with the help of our energized farm-share-owner community. As a community, we have hundreds of feet on the ground daily driving the revolution. First, let's take a closer look at Helios Farms' dictionary...

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Doing Your Part in CSA

Helios Farms is growing fast because we deliver food produced from our farm share owners' livestock without using any modern ag chemicals or food additives. You are part of a community that is getting bigger all the time, and delivering more Singl...

I added a deliveries page to our website in the hopes that our farm share owners will check here to see the latest delivery information. I will update the info here as our deliveries roll each week and this will be a consistent page to check for your delivery status.

No! Not Buttercup!
 

Ever since we came to this land six and a half years ago, we have occasionally had dairy cows bloat and die spontaneously. We lost a favorite cow, Nora, who was born here on the farm, a couple weeks ago. A few days later, I found Anna bloated and wa...