WELCOME TO WINFIELD FARM

Nestled in the Santa Ynez River valley about three miles west of Buellton on Highway 246, Winfield Farm is dedicated to top quality, naturally grown food that tastes good. Owned and operated by Bruce and Diane Steele, Bruce does the farming and Diane does the paperwork. We’ve been in business since 2003, sharing the bounty grown on our land with local restaurants and good-food lovers.

Winfield Farm began as a produce operation, growing several varieties of heirloom tomatoes, melons, sweet onions, shallots, the ubiquitous squash, and the best sweet corn in the valley. To consume the inevitable superabundance that a garden produces, in 2013 we also began raising rare Hungarian Mangalitsa wooly pigs. Renown for charcuterie and unsurpassed flavor, extolled by Michelin star chefs, Mangalitsa pigs became our mainstay for a good baker’s dozen years.

But due to ultimately insurmountable challenges of raising and marketing Mangalitsa pigs profitably in California, Bruce is now pointing Winfield Farm in a different direction: subsistence farming.
(You can read about our wooly pig challenges in a cover story printed in the Santa Barbara Independent in 2025, also posted on the WF Blog: From Gourmet Pork to Subsistence Farming)

For the past decade, Winfield Farm has operated entirely on solar energy and human power. This reimagined website will now document Bruce’s return to his farming roots, but with a catch: His goal is to demonstrate how one man with a grub hoe can produce enough good food to feed a family or small village – with no fossil fuel. (Bruce also uses an electric tractor and an ingenious modified e-bike for cultivating.)

Bruce is a master gardener with a very green thumb, as well as a creative chef adept at utilizing all the fruits of his labors in our meals (including the weeds). We will post his recipes from time to time on the WF blog. Please bookmark this website and enjoy.