Dormouse Farm is a mother & daughter team. Both Cindy & Morgan are passionate about bringing quality food and education to southern Oregon. With nearly 50 years combined farming experience: Cindy works the magic in the kitchen creating baked delights and scrumptious shrubs, vinaigrettes, jams, and in the greenhouse nurturing heirloom varieties of flowers, herbs and vegetables. Morgan is the designing wiz, and magics hot sauce and pasta late in the night to delight and tease your taste buds. She is also the resident artist and teacher.

COVID-19 in 2020 made an impact on our lives, as it has for millions around the world. The arts, restaurant and hospitality businesses that both daughter and son depended on, ceased to exist as we had known them. This was the key driver to bring the family back together and re-evaluate life moving forward. Knowing this, mother and daughter were sitting around the garden table fantasizing a return to farm life.

They had done this before. The fantasizing and the farming.

The farming was done for sixteen years back in Washington state before the parents decided to retire after the children went on to pursue their art. And the fantasizing has been going on since the family moved into the city. Three tense years, with unenjoyable noise and neighbors unaccustomed to a gardener’s vision and a farmer’s inventions, was plenty of time to envision a return to the “good old days.” And COVID seemed to give the family just the right push to go buy the farm. Again.

And so. The name. It is an odd choice, considering that folk prefer to distance themselves from anything with “mouse” in it, but it makes a great deal of sense when you hear how it came to be.

The story of how the Dormouse Farm came to be is as quirky and thoughtful as its founders.