Troy was an active participant in FFA and worked alongside Don on the farm throughout High School, gaining invaluable experience of farming operations. In 1973, Donald had a son, Troy, who grew up on the farm, watching his father and grandfather work the soil and instilled in him the farming spirit of his forefathers. Seward worked alongside his father until branching off on his own after his father’s retirement in the early 1980’s. Seward was one of Albert’s sons, and bought a farm along the Snake River in the 1950’s, behind the original Golden WestProduce facility in Nyssa, OR. Farming was still an integral part of the Seward Family, but was done independently. From 1937 to the mid-1990’s, the Seward Farm experienced unfortunate dispersion and fragmentation, typical of most family farms in America.Īlbert’s children each had a vision of their own, and went separate directions, some choosing paths outside of the agricultural arena. Seward took for the benefit of the family, the present day Golden West Produce and GW Farms, certainly would not have been possible. One might say that in 1937, Golden West Produce was born, as without the realized vision and immeasurable risk that Albert F. After a scouting mission, seeing how the green grass and weeds along this glorious river were growing unhampered by the the summer heat, Albert reasoned that the Seward Family could surely make a living farming this fertile land with an unbelievable abundant water source. Seward led his wife, Jenny, and family to the fertile ground of the Treasure Valley along the Snake River in Idaho near Nyssa, Oregon in 1937.
Driven out of Kansas by drought, Albert F. For the Seward’s, “Adversity begets Perseverance”…In the 1930’s, the Seward Family of farmers residing in Kansas, experienced the infamous “Dust Bowl,” and as a result looked for greener pastures in the West.
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