Country Farms

This place is a thriving summer institution in this area, and I don’t take nearly as much advantage of it as I should. It has been here for years and years, since well before I moved to the area, and I am averaging maybe one visit per year if I am lucky. It just goes to show how tough it is to embrace the idea of going to different stores for groceries, like our grandparents did. The prices here are just insanely good, but we all want the convenience of parking once and getting everything at a supermarket.
This is a big open-​air stand with parking for about 15, right on Highway 99. The fact that so many cars go right by here strikes some people as a negative for produce, but, hey, we DO all wash every piece of produce before we eat it… right? The stalls here are full of fruits and vegetables of all kinds, with occasional visits from juices, ciders, and cut flowers. You can usually count on them to have a few potted herbs, flowers, and plants as well, but the focus really is on the fruits and vegetables.
The prices here are absolutely spectacular (and they do take cards). You can get down to almost local prices for produce from California (I mean prices you’d pay in CA for stuff grown there). It’s not all organic, by any means, but they do have some OG choices, and you can definitely get big, healthy, perfect specimens of all kinds of stuff. They get stuff from all over, so it’s not ultra-​local by any means, either. You can weigh the factors that affect your purchase decision accordingly, but if you need pounds and pounds of a given vegetable (for a dinner party or whatever), paying 69 cents a pound here is a lot better than paying $ 4.59 for it at a high-​end supermarket. Sometimes you want to snag the deals at the nice supermarkets, sometimes you want to snag the deals at a place like this. And this place almost always has almost everything at deal prices, so I need to come in here a lot more often.

If you want to buy fresh vegetable at a low price, this is the best place you can find. You can get 2 or 3 bags of fresh vegetable for less than 20 bucks! I hate it that there isn’t one at where I’m living right now!

Quality is average or better. Prices are very good. They do not list the origin of most produce. They also do not have any organic produce. If you buy conventional produce and don’t worry about where it is grown, this place is an excellent choice.

Love this place! This is a place I take into consideration whenever I consider moving. This place has a great selection at prices that are amazing. I’ve never found fruits and veggies this cheap (that aren’t past expiration). I’ve never been to a farmers market here or any other veggie stand like this so I don’t know, this could be pretty standard? It’s worth the drive to check it out even if you don’t live so close like i do.
Can’t wait for this place to open again!

We love this place and have been patronizing it for years. We have a running joke that no matter how much we get, we cannot spend more than $ 30. That’s serious. The produce is fresh and lovely, a little more of from afar then I would like to see, but a lot of local stuff too.
We are always so excited when it reopens. We like to peruse the overstock section for potential can-​ables and are rarely disappointed. If you like fresh produce, you must make this a regular stop.

Country Farms is great! The parking is a little hassle but the produce is great! Cheap prices for fresh food. They also have a flower section in front. Country Farms even has a spot for honey (different varieties) made in Washington! During the Christmas Time of year they have locally grown Christmas trees and beautiful reefs. Country farms also makes these homemade wood reindeer with replaceable antlers (made from small branches) and a replaceable tail. Just this year they came out with a line of wooden snowmen! They also include free scrap branches that you could use for crafts, etc. It’s a very clean place as well…

Driven by this place ever sense i was a kid. I decided to go in. It was really clean. AMAZINGLY CHEAP PRICES! got a whole cart full of fresh veggies for less $ 30! They even have herbs. All produce was nice and fresh.

Very impressed. My hubby and I stopped by on a whim to check it out after driving past several times. The open air market was refreshing and the produce was good quality and appeared to be recently picked. I not only loved the variety, but the prices are fantastic. Spent $ 11 on a whole bunch of random stuff to accompany the nest week of dinners. I loved the $ 3 box special for fruits & veg that are no longer at their prime — great buy for any looking to eat healthy & cheap.
Juicing can be so expensive, I ‘m sure I will save money by shopping here.

Each spring, I wait for Country Farms to re-​open. I love that they sell the typical produce you expect that is better quality and more reasonably priced compared to grocery stores.
On top of that, you can also find potting soil, vegetable starts, herbs, and other plants. It makes for great one stop shopping for all your produce needs.
Like most produce stands, they often have a discounted bin. I like the way they do theirs better than most stands. They have a flat rate of $ 3 for discounted boxes and they provide a variety to choose from. For instance, you could get a box with 3 onions, a lemon, a grapefruit, and asparagus. Of all the fruits stands I’ve been to, I like this method the best. Also, the produce is not as old as other stands. What I mean by that is with most stands, the discounted bin is barely usable. With Country Farms you likely have longer to use the items.
Staff members are friendly and quick. Parking is more plentiful than a lot of stands I’ve been to. Also, the location right off Aurora is super convenient.

I drive by almost daily on my new route to work and stopped in today for the first time. Oh my goodness, it’s fabulously fresh and great prices. Radishes and green onions, two bunches for a buck, fresh guava at $ 2.98 a lb, so much to choose from. I had four full sacks of beautiful produce for $ 27. I will be coming back often.

Absolutely *incredible*.
Filled up 2 carts full of fresh juicy fruit. Total cost was $ 68.
Incredible.
Definitely my most favorite find of this year.

My boyfriend and I came here to grab ingredients for veggie soup. Zucchini, cabbage, mushrooms, yellow squash, onion, broccoli, all for under $ 10. This is the place to visit for inexpensive meals. So far it has lasted us 3 nights!
Everything looked fresh, clean and well organized. I appreciated that items were clearly marked with a price. I was also impressed by their salad dressing selection! They even had a walla walla onion dressing!
We will be back!
They had mini avocados!

This is a great place to stock up on your fruits and veggies. Better prices than in the regular grocery store. My boyfriend is a big fan (apparently this is 1 of his 7 reviews) and always dragging me here, he’s obsessed with avocados. Conveniently located right on Hwy 99, where you can drive by and see some of the advertised deals on sides by the road. Good quality produce. They have a wider variety of things than most stores too. They also sell a few other odds and ends like honey and Dave’s Killer Bread, with a mexican like section and a small refrigerated section. Not the best place to do all your grocery shopping though unless you are a raw foodist or something.

Since I never can get produce at Safeway because I know their produce prices are way out of line (25 years in the produce business) I have had to stop here for my weekly produce needs. I will say that their prices are more in line as what the market dictates, I know enough about what I see to know that many things they offer are of lesser quality. I stopped by last weekend to finish up my grocery shopping and actually walked out and went to Top Foods for my produce. The iceberg lettuce was total crap, the bananas (I don’t even recognize the brand) are always about 2 days from banana bread, and the strawberries are just so so. My suggestion to them would be, push the local produce with the strong prices and buy quality greens and get your fair prices for them. I don’t want to buy a bunch of «kicked over» produce.

I love this place too! The prices are amazing and the food is great! I miss it! I came here to find anther place to find fresh fruit and veggies for a good price. Had to leave a review! Please open in winter!

I discovered country farms a few years ago when I was living in Edmonds and my GF (now wife) was living in North Seattle because the location is right along highway 99. Unlike a lot of other stores on 99 this place is great! The fruit and veggies are inexpensive and always taste good. The Walla Walla Sweet Onion are particularly inexpensive here coming in at between 0.49 and 0.69/lb. The only complaint I have is they arent open year round.

DING DING DING DING! 200TH REVIEW! WHAT-​UP!
I almost hate to write this review… not because of a bad experience but because this is one of my «spots» I tend to keep fairly on the down low. But hey, it’s not very «Elite» like to be all «Elitist» about places you love, so allow me to share… plus. I figured for my 200^th Review (a milestone mind you) I should share one of my favorite places to go.
At first glance, it’s simply just a fruit/​veggie stand… but the true charm isn’t until you check it out! The prices are fantastic! These are the best prices on produce I have ever found anywhere! Not even TJ’s or Costco can hold a candle to these prices!
The most recent trip I came by, I picked up 3 heads of kale, a 2 lb bag of carrots, lb of peaches, and a head of red lettuce… guess how much I spent? less than $ 8. I make baked kale chips on a weekly basis and this is one of the places I hit to get my kale, at just under a buck for a head of kale… it’s super cheap and great for those who want to add the nutrient rich green in their diet!
The staff is always helpful, I rarely have to «dig» for the good stuff and you will literally feel like you can really afford to be healthy. One of the biggest excuses unhealthy people have to justify eating not so good for them foods is that they’ll claim eating healthy is expensive… no excuses here. A wide variety of fruits and veggies, make up my main produce shop. Places like this make me love it in Edmonds.
5 eh-what’s-up-doc? stars out of 5

I love this place. They have a great selection of seasonal fruits and veggies… seasonal = fresh. I don’t know how they do it, but the prices are unbeatable. Asian markets may have it, even at the same price, but its not as fresh.

I like this place because its on the way home from my zumba class. They have great hours, 7am to 10pm and the parking was okay while I was there and easy to access although, I can see how it might get hectic. They have these mini avocados 3 for $ 1, amazing. I like them almost as much as I like personal watermelon. The selection of kale which has been touch and go because of the weather, was better than I have seen at any other produce stand including, Lenny’s and star produce down the road. Country farms also carries a lot of cactus and other exotic food that are tough to come by in say, SAFEWAY.
I would definitely go back to this place but for now I am a Lenny’s regular because they have sugar snap peas for a reasonable price.
I would recommend this place because of the friendly staff, wide selection and long hours.

Great source of fresh fruit and vegetables!
We just scored: $ 0.33 cucumbers, $ 0.40/lb oranges, $ 0.69/lb sweet onions, and 2 for $ 1 bell peppers.
This open air market is open mid March through early November and offers really great prices on perishable groceries. You don’t have to weed through a bunch of bad produce either, the staff weeds out anything that’s past it’s prime and puts them in further reduced clearance boxes.
Right now, their produce is from California and Mexico, but when the crops in Washington are harvested, more Washington grown produce will show up in this market.
There’s a $ 0.60 charge for debit card charges, but credit card purchases are free.
The place looks great, the prices are really low, and it’s right near Seattle Deli for Vietnamese sandwiches and Than Bros for phở, one stop shopping for a bunch of affordable goodies, sah-​weeet!