Online Ordering Now Available! Our Story Meet The Chambers Family Our owners, Bill and Karla Chambers, started with 2 crops, about 300 acres and a dream in 1985. Today, Stahlbush cultivates 5,000 acres in Oregon and offers the freshest individually quick frozen fruits, vegetables, grains & legumes available. Since that day back in 1985, Bill and Karla have instilled the same strong values of resilience, innovation, patience and determination as well as unmatched dedication to preserving our land to their children, who will, one day, take over the family farm. Art And Sustainable Farming “Years ago, Bill and I went on a trip to Montana. We were staying at Triple Creek Lodge during a fall fly fishing and artist workshop event. It was a cold, fall day. Bill and our friend, Eric, went fly fishing while my dear friend, Carrie, and I spent the day with three professional artists. I enjoyed spending time with these artists so much that I never went fishing. When I returned home, I bought art supplies and just kept painting! I have never had a formal art class, which is why my art is considered “naïve.” Acrylic paint is my favorite medium because of the rich colors and thick textures that it can bring to a canvas. I use my husband’s house tools to achieve the three dimensional quality that is characteristic of my work. Farm animals, landscapes and desert flowers are prominent in my paintings because they are reminiscent of the past, present and future. I mimic the colors from the farm in an effort to highlight the raw, powerful beauty of farming healthy, nutritious foods. My paintings are now in fine art galleries across the country, including Arnot Gallery in New York City and Gallery 444 in San Francisco. I have been featured in Art World News, the largest art publication in the world, five times. My fine art has been featured in several museum exhibits and juried competitions. The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon has displayed my work several times in different shows.” – Karla S. Chambers, Artist & Co-Owner of Stahlbush Island Farms LEARN MORE Sustainability Soil Health With each growing season, we use conservation tillage to reduce erosion. We also plant cover crops to return nitrogen to the soil and build organic matter. We even apply digestate from our biogas plant to our fields as it acts as an organic fertilizer and naturally increases microbial activity and builds overall soil health. Water Conservation We continue to improve our irrigation, using weather, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data to track water use and needs. We have implemented automation systems that allow us to access real-time data that automatically controls and schedules our irrigation based on the needs of each plant. Wildlife Habitat and Biodiversity We plant native species that attract pollinators like bumblebees and plant cover crops in the winter that keep the blue herons on the farm year-round. We have a thriving blue heron rookery or habitat on the farm. Social Responsibility and Employee Well-Being We have programs and benefits in place for our employees to ensure job satisfaction and fulfillment. We also have programs in place to improve our local community, for instance we donate one million servings to local food banks every year. Innovation We were the first farm ever to be certified sustainable by the Food Alliance. We have always been early adopters of new technology. Stahlbush was the first farm in Oregon to use GPS technology and the first to build a biogas plant that generates electricity using agricultural by-product in North America. Our Biogas Plant At Stahlbush, we generate electricity from our fruit and vegetable by-product, things like corn husks and cobs, using our biogas plant. The biogas plant not only generates electricity, which we use to power the processing plant, but also generates steam that we use in our boilers, hot water for sanitation and hot air to dry our pumpkin seeds. The leftover material from this process leaves us with water for irrigation and a rich fertilizer that we spread back into the fields to nurture next year’s crops. “There is no such thing as waste, only underutilized resources.” – Bill Chambers Curious about just how much waste we convert? Here are some fun facts! The biogas plant has converted 295,163 tons of agricultural byproduct from 2009 to 2019. This agricultural byproduct is used to fertilize our fields and is ORGANIC! The crop that generates the most electricity is SPINACH. It generates 1,650 kWh per ton. Bill and Karla Chambers started Stahlbush Island Farms with two crops, a piece of land and a passion for good food. Today the couple still lives in the same house on the farm and manages the business every day. Some may call that old-fashioned; we call it a family farm. Featured Recipes Vegan Chili Pot Pie Kale & Mushroom Quiche Northwest Berry Hand Pies Cheesy Chickpea Crispy Tacos Information About Us Our Products Careers Contact Us Sign Up To Receive Special Offers and Recipe Ideas © Stahlbush Island Farms • 3122 SE Stahlbush Island Rd, Corvallis, OR 97333 • (541) 757-1497 • contact@stahlbush.com