Specialty produce partners.
At Tanaka Farms, we can’t grow everything! So we partner with other family farms to supply you with the best variety of produce, including some very special varieties.
Masumoto Family Farm
Del Rey (Just South of Fresno), California, 250 miles from Tanaka Farms
Masumoto Family Farm is a family owned and operated farm specializing in stone fruits. Specifically organic apricots, nectarines, and their world famous peaches.
Husband and wife team David and Marcy, along with children Nikiko and Korio, farm on 80 acres just south of Fresno.
Masumoto peaches are known as “the last great peach” and are super sweet and juicy. With heirloom varieties such as Elberta, Sun Crest, Flavor Crest, Gold Dust, and Spring Lady, each bite is a wipe-off-your-chin experience.
Farmer and writer David Mas Masumoto is the author of many books, including Epitaph for a Peach, Wisdom of the Last Farmer, Heirlooms, Letters to the Valley, Four Seasons in Five Senses, Harvest Son, Country Voices, and Silent Strength. He is currently a columnist for The Fresno Bee and the Sacramento Bee.
The short harvest season from late May to early August makes this summer delicacy are real treat to beat the heat.
“I wish I could tell you, really describe to you how perfect they are. They did all the things great peaches do. They were sweet and just a little sour and you had to eat them over the sink because the juice would run down your arm. Maybe the most wonderful thing about them is that you could smell them, not when you walked into the kitchen, but when you opened the front door of my apartment. But actually, no. Because really the most wonderful thing about them was where they came from.” — Francis Lam, Splendid Table (Episode 692)
These peaches are in high demand and come in limited quantities, so make sure to keep an eye out for announcements, as they will sell out quickly.
Polito Family Farms
Valley Center (near San Diego), California, 95 miles from Tanaka Farms
Polito Family Farms is a family business, that was founded in 1968 by S. Robert and Rose Polito.
Located in Valley Center and Pauma Valley in Northern San Diego County, the farms are now operated by the second generation, Bob and Mary Polito. They grow some of the best organic fruit in the county including oranges, tangerines, mandarins, grapefruits, lemons, Adriatic figs, and avocados.
YNT Farming* & Cardenas Farms
Dinuba, California, 250 miles from Tanaka Farms
This 50-acre certified organic farm has been operating under Agustin Cardenas since 2001, specializing in nectarines, plums, pluots.
Agustin Cardenas started working in the fields as a teenager when he moved from Mexico to the United States in 1984. While working full-time on his employer’s ranch, he got his degree in accounting, and years later, the opportunity arose to lease and then buy the ranch where he worked when his employer retired. His passion for growing was blooming, but the farm’s finances weren’t for many years, until Agustin found a niche in the organic market.
Going organic saved his farm. Agustin is currently growing stone fruit for Homegrown Organic Farms. Owning his own farm, and farming full time was outside of anything Agustin would have imagined when he began in agriculture. The farm has provided a way for the family to come together. His wife Maricela takes care of the administrative work, three of his siblings are partners in the farm, and his father continues to do the farming with him.
“We love growing organic fruit. I just feel it’s best for people to eat, you just don’t have the residue of more harmful chemicals. It makes us feel good, growing organic fruit,” Agustin says.
“We are YNT/Cardenas Farm! Our workers all come from immigrant families from overseas and we have been working hard to bring fresh produce to the local community. Beyond just providing fresh and delicious fruits, we love coming to the farmer's market to bond with our customers. We have been in the business 20 years now and some of our customers have been coming to us for 20 years! We appreciate the intimate connection and relationship we get to build with our customers through Farmer's Market.”
*YNT Farming and Cardenas Farms operate together but are separate entities. YNT does not have an organic certification, while Cardenas does.
Tarsadia Farms
Riverside, California, 40 miles from Tanaka Farms
Tarsadia Organic Farms is a family-operated business, specializing in citrus and tree fruit, that spans three generations. Though farming is new to the current generation, they honor their grandparents’ farming roots, entrepreneurial spirit, and fearless humility, and are grateful for the opportunity to reestablish the trade of their ancestors, one seed at a time.
Their family story begins on a small farm in Gujarat, India. Situated off the country’s western coast, Gujarat is known for its good soil, river systems, and fertile lands. Farming was their way of life - they harvested rice, sugarcane, wheat, and cotton, and made a living by selling their crops at the local village market. They were stewards of the land and proudly grew safe, abundant, affordable food for themselves and their community. Three generations later, they are still passionate about finding ways to make healthy, nutritious food accessible to everyone.