Neverdone West Farm

Back on the East coast, one of our grandparents successfully ran a Setter breeding kennel named Neverdone Farm. The name was passed down a generation, and as the children moved across the country, the name evolved as well. There now exists the original Neverdone Farm, along with Neverdone North in the Adirondacks and Neverdone South. When we were looking for a name for the farm, there was only one choice...

Dating back to at least the early 1920s, the farmhouse was built by one of the pioneer families of the area, the Wieds. The family are known to have arrived in the area only a few years after the town was established, and owned over 500 acres of farmland where they grew walnuts and prunes. In 1907, Johan (or John, as he became known) had four varieties of his walnuts placed on display in the Oregon Chamber of Commerce exhibit, as "convincing evidence that Oregon will produce profitable crops of the finest walnuts". John, his son Fred, and then his grandson David all stayed in the area. As the family moved away from farming (David became the town attorney), land was split off from the house, with some being donated to the town with the purpose of expanding the cemetery. Nearly one hundred years after the farmhouse was built, we are taking it back to the agricultural roots and raising historically significant breeds.

Today, Neverdone Farm West is owned by the Whitefields. When not working with the birds, we've been restoring and refurbishing the inside of the house, with a goal of finishing the work by the time the house is 100 years old. One of us grew up in a farming family, and the other grew up in England. It seems fitting that the end result is a farm that specializes in keeping and breeding traditional English poultry and waterfowl.