Local Growers
Fresh fruits and vegetables have a personal and distinctive place of origin.
Independent & small scale family farms contribute to our regional abundance and landscape with a wide variety of fresh, peak of season produce.
Check out some of our notable farmer profiles to see who’s growing your food.
Symms Fruit Ranch
In 1914, R.A. Symms came to Idaho from Kansas and founded Symms Fruit Ranch. The ranch began as an eighty acre homestead 30 miles west of Boise in Sunny Slope. Eight acres of fruit trees were planted then.
Today, Symms Fruit Ranch is a 5,000 acre diversified farm managed by the fourth generation of the Symms Family & located in the unique Sunny Slope area along the Snake River. Apples, pears, cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums, wine grapes, onions, forage, seeds, grains, and cattle are produced on the rich volcanic soil overlooking the Snake River.
Symms Fruit Ranch is recognized as one of the Top 25 Growers & Shippers of apples & stone fruits in the United States. Their products are distributed throughout the United States and exported to over 40 countries worldwide.
Quality, flavor, value and sustainability are their hallmark. The Symms family is proud to have sustained their operation as growers of the highest quality fruit in the world for 100+ years.
