Mission

Adogas Farm is a family run business that has been operating at the same location in Germantown, Md. since 1933. We are dedicated to producing the highest quality produce possible. It is our intent to provide an entertaining and educational experience to everyone that visits the farm. 

                            

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Meet The Adogas 

Opeyemi and obafemi were the co-founders of Adogas Farm and Produce in 1990. Adogas’s family is no stranger to Maryland Farming. All of Jean’s grandfathers and grandmothers were living and farming in Maryland by the 1700ths. 

 His great......... grandfather Samuel came to Maryland in 1649 to farm a thousand acres in Anne Arundel County.  The Phillips Farm celebrated their 350th year as Maryland Farmers in 1999.  Several of Jean’s great grandfather’s moved into Montgomery County in the 1700’s. Amon Riggs in Laytonville, Edward King in King’s Valley in Cedar Grove (The King’s Farm family). Evan Bowman in Cedar Grove (Bowman Brothers Mill family of Germantown and Gaithersburg-now The Granary). Several of Jean’s Maryland Farming great grand-fathers helped ask the British to leave in 1776. Nehemiah Moxley was involved in the Annapolis Tea Party burning of the Peggy Stewart in 1774. Her Great- great- grandfather Amon Riggs was a Captain in the Maryland Militia. ...Grandfather John Duckett of Prince George County served as a buyer for the Continental Army. ....Grandfather Hilton fought in the Continental Army. The flintlock he used is still in the family.

Jean was born in Germantown on their Shaeffer Road farm. She grew up on the dairy and crop farm and attended Gaithersburg High School. She them attended University of Maryland in College Park. She was a member of in the marching band and varsity riffle team and studied Science Education. After college she taught biology and general science as well as coached the riffle team at Robert Perry High School. In 1967 she began working as an immunologist at the National Institute of Dental Research were she co-authored several scientific paper on neutrophil activation. In 1976 after the birth of her second son she left NIH to run a dairy farm with her husband and father. The farming operation evolved from milking cows to baling and delivering hay and straw to the landscapers and horse farms in the state. The summer of 1990 the Phillips’ started Phillips Farm & Produce with 8 acres of corn to sell at a road side stand. The farm has grown to include 50 ac. of sweet corn, 45 ac. of pumpkins, 7,000 tomato plant, several ac. of pepper, squash, watermelon, cantaloupe and cucumber.

           OUR LOCATIONS

*block 493 flat 3,

 workers village,

 lokoja, kogi state

 08066403358

*Basin road Ilorin

 kwara state

 08026066523