This is your opportunity to experience a glimpse, a sip, of the farm’s ambitions to enter the craft beverage industry through value added production while enjoying our farm, our farmstand, and our u-pick pumpkin patch.

All of these activities are known as “agritourism”.

These are “non-traditional” farm businesses. Most farms don’t have a farmstand to help you stock your pantry. Or a walk up eatery. Or have the ability to offer you “u-pick” options.

Agritourism is especially beneficial to small farms. Having these extra revenues gives us a chance to keep this farm going for generations to come.

And small farms benefit everyone in our region as your local grocer has to keep an eye on prices at the farmstands in harvest season. Keeping prices down for working families across the valley.

Big farms do not have farmstands or u-pick options.

And “value added production” (doing more with our harvests) is a way to bring consumer goods to our local store shelves.
Giving our small family farm a chance to extend our farm’s economy to the “off season”.

What Hentze Family Farm hopes to do is launch a farm craft beverage company that will allow us to pay bills in the off season by making delicious drinks. Giving the South Willamette Valley local, responsibly grown alternatives to the big global brands.