The Delta is well known for Bartlett pears which were once planted on our farm.  However, with increasing pest problems and an increasing awareness of the risks of having to use a large volume of pesticides, we decided in 1998 to transition to chestnuts since they have relatively few pests in the Central Valley of California.

We primarily grow the Colossal cultivar (or variety) of chestnut as it is well-known for its bountiful crops of very large chestnuts.  While our customers have been very pleased with Colossal, we have continued to experiment with other cultivars.  Since 2005 we began offering a limited quantity of Italian marroni-type chestnuts grown here on our farm.  Based on the popularity of these marroni, we began the process of expanding the production of these in 2007 with an extensive grafting project.  Please click on the button to the left to visit our Photo Gallery to view some photos of this project.