Summer is just around the corner-- enjoy Tangerine season while you can!

Ojai Pixie season still going strong!
Mail order to continue through mid-June
The Friend-Thacher family under our
Ojai Pixie trees in 1978.
(Someone said we look just like a 2017 hipster family..)

Some Ojai Pixie History 
Our family has been enjoying growing and eating Pixie tangerines since the 1960's.  Elmer Friend used to sell the pixies from his neighbor's trees at our farm stand in the 60's.  In 1969 there was a great flood in Southern California and many orchards were damaged.  Anne and Tony moved back to Ojai after the flood to help out; shovelling mud, replanting orchards and rebuilding the packinghouse. During the replanting some Pixie trees were planted on the Sheldon ranch and shortly after George was born.  Emily came a few years later and the whole family has been eating Ojai Pixies every spring since. 

In the early 1980's as Tony began going to more farmers' markets  Friend's Ranches planted more pixies to keep up with the ever-increasing demand. We have been expanding our pixie plantings ever since.  Friend's Ranches now has about 17 acres of pixies (more than 2,000 trees).  We are also instrumental in helping sell the Ojai Pixie crop for the other 65 orchards that make up the Ojai Pixie Growers Asssociation.  (In total there are about 220 acres of Pixies in the Ojai Valley).

For several decades we have had plenty of Ojai Pixies to share.  2017 has been a bumper crop and we will be selling Ojai Pixies into mid-June, maybe even all the way to the 4th of July!   It is great fun for us to be able to share with you what we believe to be the best tasting seedless tangerine that we can grow in Ojai.   

 

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Mail Order:   shipping every Monday until 6/12

Thank you to all the wonderful customers who have been enjoying our fresh tangerines delivered to your door.  We will ship mail order until June 12th-- Then we will take a break as it is too hot to ship into the summer months.  Rest assured, the Ojai Pixies taste as great now as they did in April--  we won't ship fruit unless we love it.   
Use discount code PIXIEME for 10% off your first order of Ojai Pixies in the month of May!



The weather forecast calls for rain this weekend!  Just what we need-- A rainy late spring would make our year even better than it has been. We hope you and your friends and family are happy and healthy--

Sincerely,
All of us at Friend's Ranches
Tony T, Anne, Emily, Tony A.,
George, Carlos, Jose, Angela,
Omar,  and Austen
(and all of our spouses and children)


Friend's Ranches| 15150 Maricopa Hwy | Ojai, CA 93023 |
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