At the Farm

A Farm-to-Bottle Experience

With our bountiful harvest of Iowa potatoes this year, we decided to do something special. So, we partnered with our friends at the Foundry Distilling Co. and using our own Iowa grown potatoes we distilled our very own Iowa vodka! …

It is a beautiful morning and we are wrapping up harvest of our locally grown Russet potatoes here in Carlisle, Iowa.  It has been a great growing season and we were very happy with the yield and quality of these …

Hy-Vee Farm Tour

Des Moines area produce managers toured Summertime Farms and learned about our operation from ground up. Hy-Vee employees visited the fields, wash plant, cold storage and machine shed and learned how Iowa potatoes are grown and delivered to Hy-Vee.  It …

Rough Grade

When the potatoes first come out of the field we give them a “rough grade” before placing the in cold storage. Our hard working team of Carlisle natives carefully sort potatoes at the initial stage of our production line.    …

Video: Field To Farm

This video is one of our first loads of Iowa red potatoes coming from the field for sorting and into cold storage.  We like to keep our potatoes in cold storage for a minimum of 3 weeks to allow them …