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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

Rice Farms Farm Stand Now Open….Local Sweet Corn plus Oregon berries..this Friday 7-30….also Great local lapin and rainer cherries from new orchard near Sweet while they last

Our Farmstand is finally open.  We had to wait a little longer than normal for ours and other local crops to come off this year.  We have some Hermiston Watermelons from my cousins farm out there til ours come on and lots of crops from our farm like lettuce, kale, chard, cukes, zucs, 3 fresh dug varieties of Potatoes, Green and yellow beans, carrots, beets, snow peas, eggplant, candy onions, scallions, green onions, some fennel and basil, bags of heirloom cherry tomatoes and a few heirloom tomatoes are available and Grace Davila is back to manage the stand and can’t wait to greet all of our great customers.  Manual says we may have our yellow doll watermelons in a week with seedless and cantaloupes to follow soon after.  Friday we will have Trinity Bi-color Sweet Corn from Moyle Farms in Star !!!  We will still have some great rainer and lapin cherries this weekend and next week while they last!!  from a new orchard near Sweet and apricots from Williamson’s sunny slope with peaches to follow soon we hope.  We hope to have some berries later this week.   See you at the Farm!

Farm stand about to re-open

We will be working on are Farm stand on Meridian Road this week trying to get it open.  We are later than we ever thought we would be due to the cold spring weather.   We will have plenty of root crops and lettuce, kale, chard, zucs, cukes etc and we just started digging Yukon and red potatoes and will start picking french fillet green beans this week and will have ours and other farmers sweet corn as soon as we can get it along with wonderful  fruit from Williamsons Orchard in Marsing.   THANK YOU for all of your kind words, calls, inquiries and patience.  Grace and I will see you soon!!

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