You may be familiar with the sweet, crisp carrots from Sunrise Organic Farms, or recognize their label on the boxes. But as always, there is plenty more to see when you look deeper: our latest visit with the farmers highlighted their personal touch – a story of family, community, and innovation, of the hard work and good humor needed to make it as farmers in this era.

Rhubarb is very weather dependent and needs a summer temperature of 75° or below for maximum production. Once the temperatures reach 90° or above the plant will start to wilt. The season runs from late March until the end of June. 

Now is the time to get excited, build displays and promote mangos! Mango Mania is at the height of consumer demand, better known as SUMMERTIME! In the heat of the summer, while orchards are most copious, MANGO MANIA frenzy ensues!

Figs love the hot days and warm nights and are grown mainly in the central valley around the Fresno/Madera area to up north of Sacramento in Corning.  

Dwelley Blenheim apricots have a sweet rich flavor, low acid and a smooth texture.

The Peterson family has been farming stone fruit in California’s Central Valley since 1893. Following the generations before them, father-son duo Vern and Erik Peterson are passionate about being good stewards of the land and what it provides. Together, they carry on the 100-year family tradition of organic farming, growing some of the most flavorful Regenerative Organic Certified peaches, plums, apricots and nectarines.

Dwelley Blenheim apricots have a sweet rich flavor, low acid and a smooth texture. One of the key characteristics of the Blenheim is their green shoulders. Don’t shy away from the green tinge, as the fruit will have good flavor even if the fruit does not achieve full color.

While David and Dorothy took the farm over in 1987, their family has been on the land for over 100 years; and their lives are deeply woven into those 130 acres of stone fruit.

Vern is pushing the envelope of organic farming as the main stone fruit grower for Homegrown Organic Farms, our employee-owned partner that provides blueberries, citrus, stone fruit, grapes, and more.