Our Mission
We are continuously improving to provide our customers with a wide variety of quality plants, on time, and at competitive prices.
Early 1900s
Cosmo Spada immigrates from Italy to the United States through Ellis Island, joined a logging crew in the Seattle, Washington area, and then began farming in the greater Portland, Oregon area.
1958
Brothers Arthur and Richard C. Spada form a partnership to combine their separate farming operations to form A & R Spada Farms.
1960s
Farming operations move to St. Paul, Oregon, when the Portland Airport and other industrial development expand to include the family’s farm in Portland.
Present Day
The farm has grown to employ more than 100 full-time employees and an additional 30 to 50 seasonal employees. The farm cultivates more than 2,000 acres in and around St. Paul in the heart of Oregon’s Willamette Valley. That land is used to raise a variety of crops, including landscape-type plants that are now shipped to 42 States and 6 Canadian Provinces. Seed, grain, and hazelnut crops are sold on the world markets.