Description
Join us for a Field Day at King's Crown Organic Farm in King Hill, Idaho, followed by a 2-day Seed School in & near Twin Falls!
Registration fee helps to offset food costs. Scholarships are available. Please email casey.snakeriverseeds@gmail.com if you are in need of full or partial financial assistance. No one turned away for inability to pay.
Sunday, July 6th - Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
Field Day:
Sunday, July 6th 10am-1pm King's Crown Organic Farm in King Hill, Idaho
Tour highlights include:
- 700 acres in production, including cows, Berkshire pigs, alfalfa, sweet and feed corn, onions, potatoes, dry beans, squash, melons, eggplant, eggs, bees, and more!
- Raw milk micro-dairy on site with Wild Spaces Farm
- Lunch from Six Creeks Mercantile
About King's Crown Organic Farm:
King's Crown Organic Farm was started in southern Idaho by owner Nate Jones roughly 30 years ago. A third generation farmer and rancher, Nate learned about animal and plant husbandry from working with his father. After renting the farm from his father for a handful of years, Nate turned to organic methods and certification and grew the farm to about 700 acres. Today, not only is King's Crown food rich with nutrients, but our soil and surrounding vegetation is too; crop rotation and cover crops replenish soil structure, bees pollinate, cows and chickens poop, we till and weed, and the results are amazing. Every step of the organic process helps the soil on which we depend regenerate naturally. Growing alongside our crop edges are border habitats for species from birds to beaver; animals important to healthy, working landscapes. In addition to healthy ecosystems, we believe that organic farming grows healthy bodies. Farming and ranching organically helps promote freedom from industrial chemicals for our family, our customers and our employees. Nate's son Wilder and wife Colleen both help manage the farm. Wilder runs his own raw-milk micro dairy Wild Spaces Farm, and Colleen runs Six Creeks Mercantile in nearby Glenn's Ferry.
Seed School:
Monday, July 7th & Tuesday, July 8th 9am-3pm
Location TBD (Twin Falls / Buhl)
Whether you’re looking to increase your own self-sufficiency or to add seed production to your market garden or farm offerings, there has never been a better time to relearn this vital part of our agricultural heritage.
The two-day Seed School will cover a range of basics to grow high-quality organic seeds, including:
The two-day Seed School will cover a range of basics to grow high-quality organic seeds, including:
- Seed biology
- Flowers and pollination
- Growing seeds
- Harvesting and processing seeds
- Seed storage
- Seed literacy
- Wild seed harvesting
- Organic weed, pest, and disease control in seed crops
- Adding seed production to your market garden or farm
- Selection and on-farm crop improvement
- Opportunities for selling your seeds
Questions about this event can be directed to casey.snakeriverseeds@gmail.com
This event is supported through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP). TOPP is a program of the USDA Organic Transition Initiative and is administered by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP).”
Know a farm interested in transitioning to organic? Reach out to Hanna, an Organic Transition Specialist, at TOPP@tilth.org
Know a farm interested in transitioning to organic? Reach out to Hanna, an Organic Transition Specialist, at TOPP@tilth.org