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Team fundraiser

Fresh-dug
Idaho russets

50-lb boxes at $40, straight off the fall harvest and delivered for our team. Order by November 1, pick up November 7.

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Where they come from

Wada Farms,
Pingree, Idaho

These aren't grocery-store potatoes. They come out of the ground in southeast Idaho during the fall harvest, get packed at Wada Farms, and are trucked four hours west to Star for our pickup day. Blackfoot, just up the road from the farm, calls itself the Potato Capital of the World.

A 50-pound carton of Wada Farms U.S. No. 1 famous Idaho potatoes

50 lbs · U.S. No. 1 · $40

A restored 1930s Ford farm truck loaded with burlap potato sacks, lettered Wada Farms Fine Produce Since 1943

Three generations, eighty years

Frank Wada came from Japan to California at thirteen. When the Second World War broke out and Japanese Americans were forced from the coast, Frank and his wife Agnus moved inland to Pingree, Idaho, and avoided the internment camps. In 1943 they put in their first crop on 160 rented acres.

Their son Albert took over and grew it to 400 acres, then built the first packing shed, the truck fleet, and the national business. In 2010 Albert handed it to his son Bryan, who runs it now. Eighty-odd years on from those 160 rented acres, the family farms about 30,000 irrigated acres across three southeast Idaho counties — and still rotates crops through them to keep the ground healthy.

1943

First crop, on 160 rented acres

30,000

Irrigated acres farmed today

375M

Pounds of potatoes packed a year

3

Generations of the same family

Potatoes running up a red conveyor into a waiting truck during harvest
Harvest. Potatoes go from the digger straight into the truck.
A vast climate-controlled potato cellar filled nearly to the roof
Cellar storage, kept dark and cool — the same thing your pantry should do.
Potatoes moving along the sorting and packing line inside the Wada Farms facility
Sorting and grading for U.S. No. 1.
Stacks of 50-pound cartons of Famous Idaho Potatoes ready to ship
Fifty-pound cartons, boxed and ready. Ours come off a stack like this.

Fifty pounds is a lot of potatoes. Two things to know:

Don't refrigerate them. Cold turns the starch to sugar, and they come out sweet and dark when you cook them. A dark, cool cupboard is right, and they'll keep for weeks.

Don't wash them until you're cooking. The dirt on the skin is protecting them. Rinse under running water when you're ready to use them.

Farm history and storage advice from The Produce Moms' feature on Wada Farms. Wada Farms is not a sponsor of the club — they're the grower.

Order by

Sunday, November 1

Orders go to the farm after this — late orders can't be added.

Pick up

Saturday, November 7

10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Where

Star Fire Station

11665 W State St, Star, ID 83669

Price

$40 a box

50 lbs, U.S. No. 1 Idaho russets.

Can't make the pickup window? Arrange delivery with the player you ordered from. Boxes not picked up or arranged for by 2:00 p.m. are donated to a local food bank — potatoes don't keep in a hot car, and we'd rather they feed someone.

Order online

Order your boxes

Ordering and payment both happen on the club's Zeffy page. Pick how many 50-lb boxes you want and pay there — 100% of it reaches the club, since Zeffy charges nonprofits no platform fee.

$40 a box

50 lbs of fresh Idaho russets

Order and pay with Zeffy

Order by Sunday, November 1. Pick up Saturday, November 7, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. at the Star Fire Station, 11665 W State St, Star. Can't make the window? Arrange delivery with the player you're supporting.

The boxes aren't a tax-deductible donation — you're receiving goods. Zeffy offers an optional gift on top and receipts that separately.