About Us
There is a place called Capay at the north end of the Great Central Valley in California, a mile as the crow flies from the Sacramento River. At one time this area was filled with majestic valley oaks, grasslands and wildflowers. Creeks and sloughs carried snowmelt and rain from the mountains to the foothills to the valley, while salmon and steelhead swam upstream to spawn. One hundred and sixty years ago our neighbors’ families settled here, cleared the land, and built their homesteads. A lot has changed but the land has kept on giving.
Our mandarin orchard was planted more than forty years ago. We made our home here in 1999 and have taken on the oath to maintain the land and care for these trees. Our customers return every year to the farm and farmers markets to taste the fruit and judge our year’s worth of care. Many tell us stories about how they’ve been buying mandarins from our orchard for twenty years or more.
The salmon have passed through the valley to spawn in the creeks, and the steelhead are close behind. The rains have cleaned the dust off the trees and the mandarins have changed color with the season.
We want to share more than forty years of love that have gone into producing this fruit. Come to the farm, taste the mandarins and tell us how we’ve done. We look forward to hearing your stories.