Our Philosophy

Making the Most of what Nature Provides

Our fruits and veggies come to you just as they did when your grandparents’ generation was buying from us…we wait to harvest until the produce is actually ripe, which is truly an anomaly in today’s fruit industry! Then we hand-pick your order right into the box you receive; no time spent in warehouses jumbling across packing lines to be sized, waxed, and sprayed with fungicides. This natural, unsorted product grade it called, “field-run.” We work around the clock to get our highly nutritious product to you very quickly after harvest. Some of our fruits and veggies may look less-than-perfect because we waste much less of what we grow, knowing that your first juicy bite will have you hooked!

In most of today’s conventional food market, produce is selected not for flavor, but rather for appearance and storage. Too-small or funny-shaped apples get thrown in the garbage. Peaches are picked well before they ripen so they can withstand packing, travel, storage, and a long shelf-life. And we’ve all had the experience of eating a mealy, flavorless tomato that’s been shipped from who-knows where. At Rileys’ Orchard, we wait until produce is truly ready to eat before we pick it, so that you get fully mature flavors and textures. We honor the effort that plants and the earth go through to produce the food we eat. We do it by eating regionally, so the food we have is in season. We do it by reducing waste and using earth- and people-friendly pest control methods. We do it by packing and shipping so quickly that we don’t have to apply preservative chemicals to keep produce fresh. We do it by eating wonky apples and bumpy peaches and apricots so soft and sweet the lightest touch bruises them. If you’re looking for a bushel of peaches that will look perfect on your counter for weeks, you’ll need to try somewhere else. But if you, like us, love the full and complex flavors of fruit harvested at its peak, you’re in the right place! Find a favorite, try something new, and know you’re making the most of what nature provides.

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