PRODUCTION UPDATE:

I’d like to start with an apology to our retailers, suppliers, folks from an array of business relationships and of course fans of our products for the difficulties we’ve had sustaining production as demand grew so rapidly.

Long story short, we have suspended production while we look to secure an investment and management partner to help us fund the cash gap and to partner in the management of day to day operations

While growing from a single farmers market to large scale production and distribution in less than 18 months, we simply hit the wall on a couple fronts.  A significant challenge has been my waning ability to focus on the company’s needs on a daily basis while tackling the challenges of a Cancer battle and still being a decent husband and father.  It’s been heartbreaking to see the strain it’s resulted in for all of our vendors and retail partners.  It’s been a shame to see so many exciting opportunities that have presented themselves go unexplored over these last few months.  It’s been especially hard to see and hear the frustration of many of our customers.  Many of whom have come to rely on our pure and raw farmstead juices for the health benefits so many of you have shared with us.

We are now reaching a point where the dust is settling and we are able to look at some ideas and possible opportunities that have developed to bring in the support and experience to resurrect production within the next few months (cross your fingers still though!).

So please keep the faith and know that myself and family are not going to go down without a fight.  We’ve bloodied our knuckles to survive many times over the years.  We are ready to pull ourselves up and answer the bell again.

I do want to personally apologize to everyone and especially to the vendors I have worked with very close while building very meaningful relationships for the difficulty this may have created for your companies.  You have my solemn promise that we will rise again in some form and bring those relationships back to where they were not so long ago.

My best,

Tim

OUR STORY

Hello, we are the Vincent Family. Our ‘Cranberry Roots’ go back to 1957 when our grandfather, Elmer Robison, cultivated his first Cranberry ‘Bog’ on the beautiful Southern Oregon Coast. Grandpa Robison along with his wife Grandma Velna raised four children on his Cranberry farm.  Three of those children have carried on the family tradition with their own sustainable and responsible Cranberry farming operations.

In 1965, our parents Kay Robison (affectionately known as Golly) married Bill Vincent (papa) and set forth to build a family that is now the heart and soul of Vincent Family Cranberries.  As a successful commercial fisherman in what is now a lost, but special way of life, our dad along with Golly dove headfirst into the transition from hunter to gatherer.  The life of a small Cranberry farming family is also a very special.  Papa and Golly have fought hard to ensure that way of life will carry on for generations to come.  As their children we are forever instilled with the LOVE and PRIDE that they have so perfectly cultivated.

The location of our farm which is a half mile from the crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean, offers a very unique growing environment for a Cranberry.  The Coastal climate is cool year around with salty winds whipping our Cranberry bogs.  Our growing period is long.  Our bees work harder to pollinate our crop.  We harvest later than most, going into the late fall months with it’s harsher weather.  This makes for a very hardy Cranberry.  Smaller than most with a deep red color that can almost look black as it floats on the water of our flooded Cranberry bogs.  These dark berries are sweeter and contain a higher than average natural sugar content, that requires less added sweetener before it hits the bottle.  The Bandon Cranberry is renowned worldwide for these special characteristics.  Those characteristics are even more dramatic with a Vincent Family Cranberry.  We’re very proud of that, and very excited to pull our Cranberries out of the anonymous pool of Cranberries that end up in so many different food products on the market today.  Take a second look at our Juice.  Notice that deep red unadulterated color, and taste the richness of it’s tart-sweetness.  We think you’ll agree that it’s something special.

Our Cranberry history is built off of the ‘blood, sweat & tears’ that surviving as a small independent family farm requires. The farm is more than just land to us. It represents a type of ‘sacred ground’. Nurturing this ground through natural and responsible farming practices is second nature to us. Small independent family farms are a rare find in today’s world. We’ve been that rare small farming family since 1957… and we intend to keep it that way.