Home Grown Almonds Blog

We’re just a couple days away from “knocking” the first variety of trees.  The nonpareil almonds are dried enough so we can shake them off the trees.  They will finish drying on the ground before we sweep them up and harvest them.
My boys have been helping me get the orchard ready for the shakers and [...]

I just spent a week up in Oregon at Young Life’s Washington Family Ranch.  What an amazing and exhausting week with high schoolers!  Coming home to the farm is always good - I feel so at peace when I’m at home, in my orchard.  Taking a walk through the orchard, I found the Non-pareil almonds [...]