Deep Roots Farm

12/03/2024

One of the foundational tools we had before we started selling produce was the expertise and guidance through the Cultivating Success program, a partnership program between UI and WSU Extension. WSU is offering Agricultural Entrepreneurship and Business Planning workshop this winter.

If you are starting your small farm business or need to brush up on the business plan want or think differently about your farm business (like how to make a profit!), consider signing up for this course!

Course Details Our 2025 course will be offered Tuesdays from 6pm-8:00pm January 21st-March 11th 2025 online through Zoom with regional in-person intensives March 8th. Students access course syllabus, calendar, and learning modules through password protected website. Course offered with Spanish int

10/02/2024

Winter squash lineup left to right: 1. Lower Salmon River, thick orange flesh great for pies, this seed was grown by Affinity Farm; 2. Sweet Fall, similar flesh to Hubbard high moisture content makes a great baked squash with butter and nuts; 3. Red Kuri Kabocha, awesome nutty flavor for soups and where you want squash to hold its firmness; 4. Delicata; 5. Black Forest Kabocha, long storage similar to Kuri; 6. Spagetti squash, unlike to others this is least sweet and bakes into noodle like strands; 7. Acorn squash; 8. Winter Luxury pie pumpkin, velvety texture that make the best pies; 9. Pie Pita, dual purpose pie and roasting seed pumpkin; 10. Not pictured Butternut. Trailer is fully stocked at the farmstand, come get your fall on!

09/30/2024

We planted a few new varieties as well as some of our old favs. Pumpkin lineup from left to right: 1. Montana Jack O lantern, a great new variety that’s early maturing and productive; 2. Jack b Little ornamental mini pumpkin; 3. Snowball decorative pumpkin; 4. Autumn Wings Gourd; 5. Dinosaur Gourd; 6. another MT Jack. Some prices by the piece and some by the pound. Farmstand full stocked and open 7 days a week during daylight hours.

08/30/2024

Go see SushiMan- Moscow, ID this Saturday! Then come snag some of those cucumbers and purple bell peppers from the farm stand.

07/15/2024

Please consider helping our friends Greg & Leah of Pokey Creek Farm. Their farm has nourished our community for decades and now they need help. Between a legal battle for their land and Greg’s cancer diagnosis, their need is great. Any little bit helps.

46 years ago Greg and I bought a very remote piece of ground in Northern Idaho. Slowl… Leah Sempel needs your support for Stand with Greg and Pokey Creek Farm

04/23/2024

Find our plants now at Spence Hardware & Supply, Inc.! More variety and warm season crops to come as the weather warms up.

04/20/2024

Check out our plants in Spence Hardware! We’re grateful for the space and relationship that started last year in supplying local plants at your local hardware store. We will be continual adding to the selection each week so check back for new items. Thanks for your support Spence!

04/06/2024

🥚 If you have clean egg cartons sitting in your kitchen or even the back of your car, please drop them by the farm stand. Our eggs suppliers are in dire need! Egg carton exchanges are important to keep the egg prices from going up, so please bring them by!

03/26/2024

Things are popping and starting to grow faster after those warm days. Meanwhile winter is trying again. Lots of trays being filled these days in preparation for plants at Spence Hardware, our farmstand and the market. Also we got lucky and dug a bed of overwintered carrots so you can get lucky and find a bag in the farmstand! Nice and sweet after winter.