Placer County
The Placer foothills along Interstate 80, from Newcastle, Penryn and Auburn down to Lincoln and Granite Bay.
The farms
- Bare Naked Birdies pasture-raised chicken
- Foothill Roots Farm vegetables, flowers, fruit
- Four Tines Farm tree fruit, olallieberries, lamb
- Mandarin Hill Orchards satsuma mandarins, clementine mandarins, valencia oranges, navel oranges, citrus
- Martynse Family Farm owari satsuma mandarins
- Newcastle Mandarin Ranch satsuma mandarins, mandarin juice, mandarin products
- Otow Orchard peaches, plums, persimmons, hoshigaki (dried persimmons), pears
- The Natural Trading Co vegetables, fruit, wheatgrass, pea shoots, sunflower greens
- Twin Peaks Orchards peaches and other stone fruit, persimmons, citrus (incl. blood oranges), melons, summer squash
In season here in November
Pears: in season Jul – Nov.
Grown by Otow Orchard
Persimmons: in season Oct – Dec, best in Nov.
Grown by Otow Orchard and Twin Peaks Orchards
Placer mandarins: in season Nov – Jan, best in Dec.
Grown by Mandarin Hill Orchards, Martynse Family Farm and 1 more
Walnuts and almonds: in season Aug – Nov.
Grown by Otow Orchard
Winter squash: in season Oct – Apr.
Grown by The Natural Trading Co and Twin Peaks Orchards