Farm Fresh Salem — Local services in Salem

Very overpriced, most of the staff is great but not all, and some produce doesn't always seem up to par.

For example, I bought watermelon spears only to open them at home and find they were rotting; they had obviously sat there a while because all I had to do was open it and the smell, oh my god! It's no different EVERY SINGLE TIME I have bought crabmeat there. DON'T BUY IT BECAUSE IT MUST NOT BE PROPERLY STORED OR SOMETHING! Everytime, I look at dates and it's IN DATE, but when I open it up it is more than clearly spoiled. This hasn't just been a once or twice thing, either. I don't know what's going on there, but it NEEDS to be checked out. Or just stop selling it if there's not a demand for it, if that's what's going on.

I've had one or two genuinely good experiences and a lot of bad experiences here, actually, and I'm not the only one. There are a number I'd us customers shop at IGA for convenience, not for the atmosphere, people there, or any other reason that would make a good community store- well- a good community store. Honestly, I wouldn't recommend this place at all to anyone unless they were in a real pinch. It's just not worth it. The staff there is the only real positive...

Prices are kind of high so I usually only shop the sales. Way cleaner than the Borowiak's IGA in Centralia. Everything I've ever eaten cooked by them was way overdone. That includes their fried chicken, fried fish, and their bone-dry roast beef (which they send you home with a large container of the seasoned juices they cooked out of it). Their buttercream frosting for their cakes comes in big tubs and tastes like vegetable shortening and sugar. The employees are usually friendly. The meat department is decent. They have a small but decent selection of alcohol and they even carry some local wines and brews (like Big Muddy). Overall, not a bad small-town...

Love your donuts with the white icing and lemon filling. They are always fresh & they are the best I've had in years. I only thing I would change about them would be I wish whomever is filling the center with the lemon filling would be consistent with the amount being injected in the center. Because sometimes there is hardly a lemon taste with only a nickel or dime size amount and other times there's a golfball size (which are the best) making them sloppy to eat, lol 😆 and I wish you'd make more on Sunday mornings because unless your super early they are the first...