About Us
“Nourishment Produced on Our Farm For Our Home and Yours”
The Helmig family now has its 4th generation living on and farming the land here at Russellville Farm. We are proud to continue working the ground that our grandparents F.W. (Bill) and Lea Helmig worked so hard for and to be bringing back some of the diversity they had on the farm.
We always welcome visitors on the farm, but do ask that you call first so that we can make sure we make ourselves available..
Our grandparents started this farm back in the 1930s. We love farming and so appreciate that they started this journey all those years ago. The old barn seen in the picture with the Christmas trees still stands today. Grandma put all those shingles on there.
Over the last few decades, the farm has gone to primarily Christmas trees. We plan to continue to grow Christmas trees on a large scale, but also to add back some of the diversity that Grandma and Grandpa started the farm with. We have been growing poultry for awhile now. We enjoy taking on bummer lambs when they become available. In the future, we plan on adding cattle and possibly sheep as well. We just added a couple of orphaned guinea hogs June 2023. This may jumpstart us adding hogs to our products a little sooner than planned.
We are working on learning all that we can about regenerative agriculture and are putting as much in to practice as is feasible as we learn. We expect there will be a very large learning curve, but we look forward to the challenges and especially to the additional nourishment it should bring to our products to feed our family and yours.
The older farm picture is of the farm many years ago when it was still farmed by Bill and Lea Helmig. One of the old buildings is the old Russellville School house that was still in operation for the first few years after Bill and Lea bought the property across from the house that the school was originally on. Another long term goal we have is to rebuild the school and offer community classes and work with our local homeschoolers to offer a space to come together.
Pasture Raised
We want to give our animals their best life while here on our farm. We raise our animals in mobile coops and move them across our pastures. Their feed is made fresh, on site, at our local feed store in Mulino.
Our laying hens always have truly free range of the farm. They could walk to town if they really wanted to.
We are working toward regenerative agriculture and any other practices that work with nature on our farm. We have a lot to learn and we look forward to the added health and nourishment it will bring to the land, animals, our family and yours. If you are interested in any of the resources we are using to accomplish this goal, you can find them on the FAQs page.