T&D Willey Farms

Organic Farm | Madera, California

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with Tom Willey

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The Harvest

Our crops were exclusively harvested the old fashioned way, by “loving” hands. Sometimes vegetables would even get the white glove treatment, as with easily bruised new potatoes and delicate crookneck squash.

Observing our harvest, a visitor from China once remarked: “Food can’t really be called organic until humans touch it. When your people harvest and handle the food is when it becomes truly organic.”

  • jalapeños
  • sweet-peppers
  • basil-bunch
  • serrano_peppers
  • carrots-in-box
  • greens-in-box
  • table-tomatoes
  • potatoes-wood-box
  • red-potatoes
  • hot-peppers
  • yellow-squash
  • tomato-in-hand
  • leeks
  • gold-potatoes
  • tomatoes-pack
  • yellow-peppers-bath
  • roma_tomatoes
  • aubergine on the vine
  • kale
  • squash blossom
  • yellow squash in the field
  • cucumbers
  • basil and red peppers
  • crookneck squash
  • Nantes carrots
  • Sugar Baby Watermelon
  • Loose Bloomsdale Spinach
  • basil
  • escarole
  • Eggplant in bucket
  • turnips
  • fennel in the field
  • parsley

 

Here, harvest is loaded aboard electric-powered flatbed trucks (from which derives the term “truck farm”) and transported to headquarters where vegetables were prepared for market.

Denesse would spend a major portion of her day arranging sales with retail and wholesale clients. Their vegetable orders were field-picked that same day and shipped to retail outlets like the one from which so many wonderful customers purchased our product. Retailers in California were able stock their shelves with our fresh vegetables within 24 hours of harvest! That was our ideal.