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Here You Go – Weston’s Organic Potato Chips!

December 11, 2020 By Gold Dust Farms 11 Comments

We’re pretty sure it’s unanimous that 2020 has been a train wreck of a year.  COVID-19, the ensuing pandemic, economic disruption, an election year – there’s been very little to celebrate. Well, we might have found something

Introducing Weston’s Organic Potato Chips!

Weston’s Organic Potato Chips!

What are those you ask?

Obviously, they’re potato chips – organic potato chips. And one of the reasons we’re excited about these chips is we’re providing the organic chipping potatoes that are fried up into these tasty snacks. They’re grown right here in the Klamath Basin, which, in our opinion, makes these potato chips extra delicious.

Fried up by family-owned and operated Warnock Food Products of Madera, CA, this is the same company that produces the rose fingerling potato chips we wrote about back in February. 

We’ve been able to find them at our local Grocery Outlet in Klamath Falls

Weston’s Organic Potato Chips seems to be a regional brand only found on the West Coast. Though they may be a mostly Californian product, we were able to find them at our local Grocery Outlet in Klamath Falls. On a personal note, it’s pretty exciting to go to a grocery store and see potato chips with your family’s farm on them.

Even more exciting is when you know the “Weston” behind them.

If you haven’t guessed yet, the Weston printed on the big white bags is in reference to our very own Weston Walker. Jaap Langenberg, the brain behind the rose fingerling chips and Weston’s Organic Potato Chips, visited our farm a while back. During his visit, he was amused that Weston was so dedicated to growing and providing chipping potatoes he even named his dog Spud. With the image of a farmer and his dog in Jaap’s mind, a brand was born.

Now the big question – how do they taste? 

We might be a tad biased. Regardless, these potato chips fry up nice and nearly white – just as a proper chipping potato should. Being thick-cut, wavy-style chips, they have a nice, crisp crunch. There are two flavors to choose from – Sea Salt and Sea Salt ‘N’ Vinegar. While you get the familiar flavor of sea salt and the pungent punch of salt and vinegar, what’s nice about these potato chips is you can actually taste the spud. The flavors don’t overwhelm the natural potato taste, which in a world of overly-salted snacks is a nice change. And again, we might be slightly biased so you need to find a bag and try them yourself!

We hope you’re able to find a bag of Weston’s Organic Potato Chips in a store near you. Since these are an organic product, if the white bag doesn’t stand out on the shelf of the snack section, you might have to go look for them in the natural foods aisles. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did!

  • Simple ingredients make them simply delicious!
  • The perfect potato crisp to go with a pint of bitter

Filed Under: Gold Dust & Walker Farms, Organic Potatoes, potato chips

We Stand With Shut Down & Fed Up

June 4, 2020 By Gold Dust Farms Leave a Comment

We are proud to support the Shut Down & Fed Up movement

May 29th was pretty incredible. And we’re proud to have been a part of an amazing event like the Convoy For Change.

Last Friday, some of our crew met at our shop in Merrill to help decorate cars, pickups, tractors and trucks to join in the convoy. This tractor rally was put on by the Shut Down & Fed Up movement, which is working to find a sustainable solution for farms and fish in the Klamath Basin. Gold Dust & Walker Farms was more than happy to add our vehicles and voices to the protest. We even offered up one of our grain fields just outside of Merrill to give everyone in the rally a place to get ready.

  • Gold Dust & Walker Farms employees getting ready to decorate for Shut Down & Fed Up's Convoy For Change tractor rally
    Signs – check. Help – check. Let’s get these farm rigs ready to roll!
  • Decorating Lexi Crawford's GMC Denali
    Alright, let’s get Lexi’s rig ready for the tractor rally!
  • John Deere tractor with Built to Farm sign
    No truer words have ever been attached to a tractor
  • Maddion Walker and Penny Crawford holding sign
    That’s a great and incredibly true sign, Madison and Penny!
  • Tractor with protest sign
    Here’s one of 23 vehicles we put towards Shut Down & Fed Up’s tractor rally
  • Gold Dust & Walker Farms employees decorating hay truck
    We even made sure the hay was ready for the Convoy For Change
  • Various farm vehicles in field near Merrill, OR
    As you can see, the Convoy For Change tractor rally isn’t just about tractors.

We figured there’s be quite a few people. The leaders of Shut Down & Fed Up said there’s be several hundred participants.

That’s quite a line of farm rigs getting ready to join the Convoy For Change

What we saw from the shop’s parking lot told us there was a whole lot more than several hundred. As we worked to get posters and flags hanging from the equipment and vehicle windows painted with phrases in support of Klamath Basin ag, we could see the line for the tractor rally was massive. It went past our shop, and from what we could tell to the Tulelake-Malin junction.

Our vehicles didn’t enter the tractor rally all at once. Rather, we were spread out, slowly making our way to Merrill and then towards Klamath Falls. People lined the streets of Merrill, waving and cheering in support, giving our protest the feel of a parade more than a statement. However, it was a statement – a statement that was nearly 30 miles long!

While some of the tractor rally headed to downtown Klamath Falls (yes, there!), others headed to a field in Midland owned by the Scalas family. In years past this was a productive hay field, but this year, with their water being cut, it was instead a dusty meeting place for the Convoy For Change. At the site nearly 2,000 crosses were planted, each to represent the family farms and ranches that would be affected or die off if water to Klamath Basin ag was shut down, as it was for the Scalas family.

Tractors surrounding a field planted with crosses near Midland, OR for the Shut Down & Fed Up Convoy For Change
Tractors and other farm vehicles surrounded the field of flags for the Shut Down & Fed Up rally

The field was surrounded by an assortment of farm machinery – ranging from large tractors hooked up to potato bulkers to combines and fertilizer spreaders. The convoy slowly filled the field, with all the intersections leading up to it jammed with more rigs. At the field, several leaders from Klamath, Siskiyou and Modoc counties spoke along with Representatives Walden and LaMalfa and other California supervisors. Despite the heat, the traffic and the long procession to get to the field, many met at the field to show support for Klamath Basin ag and the communities affected by farming and ranching.

It was an incredible feeling of awe and camaraderie to be a part of this amazing event. Talking to some of the members of Shut Down & Fed Up, they had to goals for the tractor rally. The first was to bring our community together, which they succeeded in. The second was to get the attention of the Trump Administration to focus on finding a solution that helps not only Klamath ag, but also brings real solutions to preserving the sucker fish in Upper Klamath Lake and the salmon in the Klamath River. We wish them luck in their second goal.

Gold Dust & Walker Farms is proud to support the Shut Down & Fed Up movement. While we’re able to find the ground and water to fulfill our contacts, we know many of our neighbors are not as fortunate. We’d like to thank the organizers of the Convoy For Change tractor rally, including our very own Tricia Hill and Lexi Crawford. We also hope you too will learn more about their cause by visiting their Facebook page or going to ShutDownFedUp.org.

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From Our Farm Blog

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  • We Stand With Shut Down & Fed Up

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