Gingerich Farms is a 5th generation family farm that was established in 1919 and is located outside Canby, Oregon, in the lush Willamette Valley. Since the beginning, the Gingerich family has been farmers first and foremost. We believe in devotion to our land, our crops, our employees, and our community. Gingerich Farms started as a mix of growing rotational crops and raising livestock.  Long-term crops eventually joined the mix and included Christmas trees, blueberries and hazelnuts (locally known as filberts). Today, Gingerich Farms grows seed crops, blueberries, and hazelnuts.  Grass and clover seed are grown on contract for domestic and international companies, while blueberries and hazelnuts are grown for domestic marketers with international sales.  The mix of rotational seed crops, long-term blueberry fields, and long-term hazelnut orchards provide diversity in work and joy for the Gingerich family and our employees.

Over time, Gingerich Farms added packing and processing to our activities.  In 1987, our first hazelnut wash line and dryer were built. In 2022, our old wash line was replaced with a new, larger line that took our per-day capacity to half a million pounds.  Nuts washed and dried in our line are sent on to George Packing Co., Hazelnut Growers of Oregon, or Northwest Hazelnut Co. for sizing, grading, bagging and additional processing.  We receive hazelnuts from many local farms and have cleaned an average of 10.8 million lbs. of nuts per year since the new line was installed.

Along with hazelnuts, Gingerich Farms also began packing fresh blueberries in 1987 and sold them to local markets.  Eventually, blueberry packing and sales were reorganized under Gingerich Farms Products, Inc.  Verne Gingerich (4^th generation) had a passion for sales and built up a customer base across the United States and into Canada, Europe and Asia. Frozen blueberries were packed for wholesale use and in the early 2000s dried fruit, pies, and pancake mixes were added to the list of blueberry products. Over time our products and services changed with market demands.  We no longer sell fruit in any form, but we still pack high-quality fresh berries for third-party marketers.  Our current blueberry pack house was built in 2008 and incorporated energy saving features to reduce power usage. Our long history packing blueberries has taught us the importance of staying up-to-date with equipment and technology in order to produce the best quality products we can.

The Gingerich Farms family and employees put great effort into our work and partner with other like-minded marketing companies to provide better returns to the local grower. After all, we are farmers first!