About Our family

My husband and I have farmed together since 2003. My hubby grew up farming and really loves playing in the dirt. We tease him he bleeds green (for the color of tractor he prefers to drive). It is amazing to me how much a farmer needs to know to farm smartly. He needs to be a chemical scientist – knowing about the elements and minerals in the soil, he needs to be well-schooled in plant health, biology, meteorology, chemistry, agronomy, business, accounting, basic animal nutrition, soil health, record keeping, technology advances, and lots more. He grew up living, eating, breathing farming and I grew up in a small farming town, without ever farming, just gardening. We are raising our family on the farm and they love it, too.

Food Dudes Fruit Stand

We run a seasonal fruit stand near our home. We sell the fresh produce we grow: sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, onions, zucchini, squash (summer and winter), pumpkins, peas, beans, and beets plus we source fruit from the Boise and Twin Falls areas that we cannot grow in SE Idaho (like peaches, pears, and melons). You can preorder, or just stop by and buy a case of fruit – whatever we have on hand. At the fruit stand, we sell our ancient grains, honey, and a few other local items we find. We open our stand at the end of June and remain open until Halloween each season. We also attend and sell our products at local Farmers Markets: including Teton Valley Farmers Market, Rexburg Farmers Market and Idaho Falls Farmers Market.

Ancient Grains

We grow many different kinds of grain and seeds on our farm in Sugar City, Idaho. Including:                                  
                                 

• Spelt**

• Khorasan**

• Hard White Wheat

• Hard Red Wheat

• Sunflowers Peas (for seed and for feed) **
   

These are available for purchase.                                               
                                  
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More Grain Info

We are farmers and grow NON-GMO grains: including hard white wheat, hard red, spelt and Khorasan, so you can enjoy wholesome wheat straight from the farm. If you need advice and are wondering what kind of wheat to choose to make your bread and other pastries, I’ll tell you my preferences.If I had to choose only one type of wheat to store and eat regularly (for those who can tolerate the gluten), I would choose hard white wheat. It is economical and makes a lighter texture, lighter colored, sweeter bread than other wheat makes. Hard white wheat (spring and winter varieties) are most often used for breads as well as specialty noodles.
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Hay

We grow several kinds of hay on our farm: Alfalfa Hay Grass Hay Pea & Oat Mix Hay We usually have bales, both large and small for sale. Alfalfa hay is the forage we use to feed our cattle during the winter. We cut it, allow it to dry down to 12% moisture. We bale at night with the dew to preserve the nutrition in the leaves. We have experimented with high moisture hay called haylage (like silage, only fermented hay rather than corn), which the cows prefer. Grass hay is also a good cattle feed, but is the local preferred feed for horses, sheep and other simple stomached animals. Pea & Oat hay mix is great for feeding cows and horses, goats and mules. It adds nutritional value to your herd. Pea and oat hay usually yields well and can be more economical to purchase as feed. Contact us for availability of feed for your animals.

Potatoes

Potatoes are an adventure to grow. It is very interesting to plant the seed, watch the rosettes appear above the soil and then grow to cover the entire field. Spud (potato) harvest is such a “party” that in Sugar City, we get a little school vacation so all who are able can help in the harvest. Potatoes are quite weather sensitive and need to be harvested in a very timely fashion. We prefer to grow (and eat) Russet Burbank potatoes- which is the potato that made Idaho famous! We are willing to sell you a box of fresh potatoes from the storage cellar, with some notice. Usually, we sell our potatoes to the fresh shed, meaning they end up in a bag of some sort in your grocery store. 

Farm Animals

We keep beef cows and a few pigs and raise them for their meat. We sell the whole animal to one or more families who want to stock their freezer with good local, pasture-raised beef and pigs. We can help the families coordinate with the butcher that they want to use in order to get the cuts they want. We do not use hormones, we prefer to finish the beef with our peas - it creates great marbling and therefore great flavor. They also love to eat the leftover pumpkins that we raise for our Food Dudes Fruit Stand.