Archive for August 2010

8/17/2010….Tis the Season….for melons and tomatoes….at Rice Farms farmstand…..Cants 3 lbs/dollar

Now picking delicious yellow doll and red seedless watermelons, vine Ripe cantaloupe( 3 lbs/dollar) cherry tomatoes, Green and lavendar Bell Peppers, 4 kinds of Eggplant.Anaheim, Jalepenos, red slicing and canning tomatoes and beautiful heirloom tomatoes…..also fresh dug fingerling, red, yukon and purple potatoes….fresh pulled beets and carrots…..green and red kales and rainbow chard….  All of the above and much more from our farm exclusively.  

Also have berries and tree fruit from other Idaho Farmers as well as local grass fed beef and pork from Homestead Foods…..McClasky’s free range chicken eggs….whole chicken from Meadowlark Farms, milk from Cloverleaf Creamery and cheese from Ballard cheese bringing our total Idaho preferred farm offerings to 10 or more farms including us.  Enjoy!!

ps….Kaden’s orange snack peppers on the way along with 2# bags of red pink yellow and purple fingerling potatoes.

Farmstand Update from Rice Farms 8/17/2010

Great story in the Idaho Statesman today by Bethann Stewart on our farm stand opening Beth had contacted us a couple of years ago when we were struggling with Ada County issues and strong arm code enforcement tactics by their planing department which eventually led to the stand closing.   Incidentally…….us and two other farmers asked Ada County to look into an ordinance change and even submitted a draft farm stand ordinance that we payed a planner several hundred dollars to write.  They totally ignored us….we did not even get a call or email from anyone at Ada County.   Oh well, thanks to our friends in Kuna and an ordinance that makes sense it is time to move on for us but with hope that Ada County will change their ordinance to be more favorable to other farmers whom may be in a location conducive to having a viable farm stand……lets hope

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