fiddle creek fruit stand

Fiddle Creek has the friendliest owners and employees. They not only have the sweetest corn I have ever had, but the homemade pies are to die for. All fresh, even picked out of the garden as you wait for it. The hard wear store has everything. We have bought a lot of supplies, paint, wood doors, and they have excellent choices of wood that we have bought for our new home we are building. Their prices are great and some even cheaper than Grangeville. If you don't see what you want, they will order it and will call you as soon as it comes in. I have also bought plants and vegetable plants that produced the best tasting tomatoes I've ever grown. It is a must for tourists, locals etc for homegrown jelly, jams, nuts, and honey. They even have free taste tests for all of that.

They had truly unique products and were open late in the evening. The huckleberry pie was delicious. Lots of fresh fruit and we were offered samples as soon as we arrived.

Family owned business that grows with the communities needs in mind. Great staff and fantastic products.

While driving down the canyons following the Salmon River came upon this oasis of a store quite unexpectedly. It was a Sunday and we found very few business open for many hundreds of miles other than the occasional cafe or grocery store. The Fiddle Creek Fruit Stand was a delight!It seemed to be family owned and the young women that were working the store with their dad were courteous and friendly. My husband and I spent about an hour there because the wealth of products available defied selection! I like to purchase local honey and this store had a lot of variety. Also pickles, jams, syrups, and fresh produce. I overheard one of the girls tell another customer her mom had just picked the zucchini fresh that morning. There were a lot of potted plants in front of the store for sale. They were over grown with weeds and pot bound but I am a horticulturist and picked out a Blue berry shrub and Gooseberry shrub that looked great. Took them home to Washington to plant without problems. In all we considered this stop on the road one of our most enjoyable in Idaho and would recommend it and also would stop here again without fail. The prices were high but we think worth it.

In addition to local fresh fruit and berries, they also havehome made, ready to bake, frozen huckleberry pies. Those alone are worth the stop!

Not just a fruit stand they have some wonderful Idaho gifts to take home with you.

I run rivers and am from Utah. Four years ago I stopped here out of curiosity on a hot, August day and had the most wonderful peaches I had encountered in quite awhile. My next visit to Idaho was last weekend, and lo-and-behold, the peaches were just as amazing. This time I met the owner, Jim. Perhaps the most friendly, hard-working, salt-of-the-earth type of dude you can ever expect to encounter. The produce (apples, tomatoes, peaches, berries) are still the best. I would recommend this family-run stand to anyone fortunate enough to blunder into it on Highway 95, just north of Riggins.

We are from NH, and were just passing by the Fiddle Creek Fruit Stand. It looked good, so we stopped. I bought their Huckleberry Jam, as well as sweet corn that had just been picked. The jam is wonderful, very fruity. I will order more of it, as they ship products as well. Their phone number on the jam bottle is 208-628-3712The corn was to die for. It was the best we ever had.

We've just opened our jar of Blackcap Pie Filling from the Fiddle Creek Fruit Stand, Lucile, ID. It is another very good Idaho wild berry product. Taste of Idaho and Wild huckleberry dot coms both have the same kinds of products. But this one carries the Fiddle Creek Fruit Stand.I spent several days in the White Bird Idaho rodeo grounds working a fire on the Snake River Breaks. I had business in Riggins one morning and found the Fiddle Creek Fruit stand midway between White Bird and Riggins. They call this wide spot in the road Lucile.This is a part of the country in transition. My first boss in the Northwest was Reid Barney. Reid's family pioneered in the Grangeville and Camas Idaho area. He grew up where spending money barely existed, when farming was done with horse teams and manual labor, where if you didn't work, you'd starve. Unless you were Nez Perce and knew the about the food and medicine bounties the pioneers just plowed under, but that's another story. Reid went home to Grangeville after the Battle of the Bulge, tried barbering, had no desire to farm, and took a job with the Farmer's Home Administration in eastern Washington. Reid's oldest son ate nothing but elk until he was nine years old, and thought his first steak, celebrating his dad's new prosperous job, was elk meat gone bad. In a northeast Nevada cafe some years ago, a couple of old-timers reminisced about Riggins when it was a timber town on a 1 1/2 lane road, before it got crowded and loaded with river runners, and tourists. That too is another story.I'm not sure who owns the Fiddle Creek Fruit stand, but he's a gentleman who knows how to work hard, make a living from the rough and rugged land, sells a lot of local products; apples, peaches, honey, various preserved products, and keeps the last vestiges of Idaho mountain independence alive. The old orchard and once-grand fruit stand across the river from the rodeo grounds is subdivided these days, parcels for retirement dreams for sale to anyone with the money to buy.I remember a simple community center during my childhood, a framed-up large grange hall, where community groups like Cub and Boy Scouts gathered, people danced each New Years under the spinning mirrored ball, and music was instrumental and romantic. Passion was contained in vessels of fine-crafted poetry held together with five lined staffs locked with bass and treble clefs.I always look for local music when I travel. I bought one of "The Idaho Yodelers" CD's at the Fiddle Creek Fruit Stand. Years before I went to work with Reid Barney, his wife Berneice played guitar for weekend get-togethers for some of the families in our office. They'd sing simple old songs, "Billy Boy," "Sweet Betsy from Pike," "Cattle Call," "Ghost Riders," "The Handcart Song" and many others. Innocent, simple, soulful remembered ballads. The Idaho Yodelers are that plus a few songs of their own decorated with some fine yodeling. Tasting the excellent black cap pie filling reminds me of huckleberries, the huckleberries remind me of the best meal I ever ate, elk stew and huckleberry pie at the Satus Creek Shaker Church. The jar holding the black cap pie filling reminds me of a man and his daughter with a small fruit stand in the bottom of a canyon, selling products coaxed to fruition from the earth of harsh, high-elevation Idaho. I'm reminded of my days at the White Bird Rodeo Grounds, the ranch headquarters along the Snake river crumbling into the basalt and dirt, the few arable acres subdivided for retirement homes, the millions of salmon that once spawned there reduced to hundreds, and a carefree life of tourist fly fishing and river rafting. Stop at the Fiddle Creek Fruit stand and enjoy some of Idaho's finest before another generation decides it's too hard to work for an agricultural living in that canyon, the fruit stand shuts down, and another Idaho landmark crumbles into the basalt and dirt.