Under the wide sky, beside the dusty back roads, the true nature of late harvest can be seen. We buy several deep purple eggplants, the butternut squash, plump green beans, giant cucumbers, and bell peppers of all colors.īefore heading home, we pull off the main road to visit a field still being picked. Shelley and I feel grateful for all the hard work that has gone into this bounty, and marvel at how lucky we are that it’s grown and sold right here, a stone’s throw from our front doors. It brings a smile to my face to think of someone standing in the produce section of a Chicago grocery store with a Wapato red pepper in hand. In addition to the sprawling roadside stand, Imperial’s is a supplier of produce far and wide in the U.S. He mentions the long hours several times, and with that, how farming is not something that can be done if there’s no love for it, there is just too much involved. With so much variety planted in his fields, he has been in harvest of one kind or another for months now and has the look of any farmer nearing the end of the growing season-exhausted in a pleased sort of way. We spot head honcho Manuel Imperial at work and approach him for a short chat. About 5 years ago they moved down the road to this much larger, impressive spread, and supported by a 1,500 acre farm, it truly is a nursery for newborn victuals of all kinds. Fruit stand lovers and fresh food enthusiasts are left slack jawed by the Imperial’s experience. Today it is the beautiful Imperial’s Garden that seduces our senses. Several fruit stands pepper the roadway, beckoning drivers to pull over and take full advantage of such a tremendous real food opportunity. Just driving down the road, Mount Adams comfortably anchored on the western horizon, the fields of apples, peppers, watermelons, cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkins, tomatoes, corn, hops and more, flash one by one into the view of the car window. Yes, ag abounds in just about every corner of the Yakima Valley, but Lateral A is like the shined up showroom floor sample of all things Valley. If traveling on Highway 97, the first encountered stoplight brings us to an intersection with the long and lovely Lateral A Road. Please order online at or call the market at 50 to place an order or for more information.Where the Yakima River passes through the low hills that surround the city of Yakima, there is a discernible yawn in the ridgeline that locals refer to as “the gap.” Passing south through this opening, we suddenly find ourselves in the Lower Valley. The Little Bake Shop bakes amazing treats from scratch Tuesday - Saturday and is happy to take special orders. We have frozen apple cider and tart pie cherries from Rowley & Hawkins Fruit Farm in Basin City, WA in the freezer case, along with their dried tart cherries and chocolate covered dried cherries.Īlong with our delicious fruit and baked goods, we also carry Single Hill Brewery beers, Basalt Roasters and Crafted Coffee, Rooted In Candles, Purple Star, Muret-Gaston, Fortuity, and Gilbert Cellars wines, Selah Ridge Lavender products, Tieton Cider, Guerra's seasoning, Hood-Crest canned peaches, pears, and apple sauce from Muirhead Canning Co. NEW PRODUCT ALERT: Savage Mustard from Zillah, D &M Coffee from Ellensburg, Beautiful fresh flower bouquets, wreaths and dried arrangements from Nancy Gabriel and Carol Barany, honey products from Double R Honey, delicious cheese from Tieton Farm & Creamery, Lavender, Huckleberry and Hibiscus Lemonade and from Spring Creek Lavender in Ellensburg, Johnson Orchards and Yakima Valley shirts, stickers and Johnson Orchards tote bags from Invisible Ink! Get your pie orders in for Thanksgiving soon! The Little Bake Shop is currently taking Thanksgiving pie orders for Apple, Pumpkin, Pecan, Chocolate Bourbon Pecan and Chocolate Cream available for pick up on either November 21st or 22nd. Pleasant Hills delivers fresh organic greens weekly. We are in the midst of apple season and have a good variety of fresh picked apples, Packham pears, Asian pears, several varieties of squash, gourds and pumpkins. FALL HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday 9:00AM - 4:00PM
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