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Our Products and Producers
Our Products
South of the Wood River along the Snake River lies a land blessed with abundant sun, water, mild climate and geothermal resources. The Wood River Valley, and land around Carey, Shoshone, Gooding, Richfield and Fairfield have pockets of small, family food producers that are participating with Idaho’s Bounty.
Our Food Shed has a rich history of food production in vegetables, salad greens, melons, corn, tomatoes, farmed fish, poultry and eggs, fruit, dairy and ranched meat. There is absolutely no doubt that given the will, organization and financial resources much of our food can be produced within 150 miles of our homes. Idaho’s Bounty has found ranchers and farmers who are supplying us with the following local, ethically and sustainably produced foods. Please click here to be taken to the Online Food Market and a list, by category, of the products available on the current Online Food Market cycle.
As support grows with local markets, the varieties of products available will grow. We are on the look out to expand this list with our best and most local options for other valuable products such as oils, bio-diesel, salt, organic ice cream, home-cooked foods and other value added products.
Our Producers
The majority of foods produced in Idaho are marketed out of state while much of the food consumed locally is imported. The small farmers’ and ranchers’ businesses in our region are struggling because they have lost their value-added niche. They are under pressure from the food industry to grow bigger. Explosive growth in the organic market has resulted in greater competition for smaller growers as large “organic” corporate farms enter the market. What once was a niche market for small-scale food producers has been lost. Since the few remaining individual producers of local, organic and value-added agricultural products in our region are responsible for marketing and distributing their own products; it has become very difficult to retain their competitive edge.
The direct benefits to the Farmers and Vendors are numerous. Idaho's Bounty has a marketing and distributing system via the Internet to help farmers/vendors to sell their produce year round within an eight county hub in south-central Idaho. This reliable distribution system will encourage the farmer/vendor to increase their production level to meet the demand of the consumer. We also work to educate producers and consumers as to the value of local food, growing it and consuming it, with the goal of increasing production.
Click to read about our producers, their products and their practices.
Ballard Cheese LLC Gooding
Blue Sage Farm Shoshone
CA Bull Elk Ranch Hazelton
Cloverleaf Creamery Buhl
Crossroads Ranch Hailey
Durand Farms Richfield
Fish Processors Fish Breeders of Idaho Hagerman
Hagerman High School Greenhouse Hagerman
Hailey Coffee Company Hailey
Home Sweet Homemade Buhl
HomeGrown Poultry LLC New Plymouth
Idaho's Bounty Ketchum
Julie Foods Ketchum
Kings Crown Organics King Hill
Lava Lake Land and Livestock Hailey
MM Heath Farms Inc. Buhl
Morning Star Organic Farm Richfield
Onsen Farms Hagerman
Parrott Family Farm Berger
Petra Fairfield
Prairie Sun Farm Fairfield
Rolling in Dough Ketchum
Soap Excellence Buhl
The Ecology Patch Buhl
Weiser River Signature Beef Indian Valley
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