Orchards near Auburn, CA

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California

Sunrise Orchards farms walnuts and more than 100 varieties of stone fruit, including peaches, near Rio Oso, and runs a full nursery alongside the orchard selling plants and landscape materials. The operation combines a working farm with retail nursery sales under one roof. Reach them at 530-633-2057 or [email protected].

Nevada City

OLaLa Farms, a family farm in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Nevada City, cultivates and wildcrafts organically grown flowers, herbs, fruits, vegetables, barks, and roots in service of everyday natural wellness. Orchard crops include apples, chestnuts, pears, persimmons, and plums, alongside watercress and herbs.

Nevada City

OLaLa Farms is a family-owned farm in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Nevada City, California, devoted to the art of self-healing through the cultivation and wildcrafting of organically grown flowers, herbs, fruits, vegetables, barks, and roots. The farm grows organic apples, chestnuts, pears, persimmons, plums, and watercress.

Rio Oso

Hudson Orchards is listed on Bear River Drive in Rio Oso, a small Sutter County community in the Sacramento Valley long known for peach and plum orchards. No working website or social page turned up in research, so current crops, sales, or hours could not be confirmed.

Rancho Cordova

Shirak Honey and Orchard Pollination operates out of Olson Drive in Rancho Cordova, in the Sacramento Valley's almond and stone-fruit belt. Beekeeping operations in this region typically split their year between honey production and contract pollination, trucking hives to orchards during almond bloom each February.

Placerville

Camino

Apple Hill orchard on North Canyon Road known for the Apple Ridge Express, a miniature train that's run through the fall season for over 40 years. There's a fruit stand and bake shop on-site, open Friday through Sunday from late September to Thanksgiving. Listed among UC Davis's recognized farm trails and part of the 120-plus-member El Dorado County Farm Trails.

Camino

Argyres Orchard sits on Apple Hill in Camino, where some of the apple trees are more than 80 years old. Visitors pick their own apples and Concord grapes on weekends only, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., starting in late September and running until harvest is picked clean. Bring cash or a checkbook — the orchard doesn't take cards. Owner Maryann Argyres has run the place for decades.

Marysville

Calolea Olive Oil began in 1999 when Monica and Michael Keller planted their dream on 10 acres in Loma Rica, near Marysville, California. Their handcrafted oil — certified extra virgin by the California Olive Oil Council — comes from hand-picked, 100-year-old Mission and Manzanillo trees plus newer Tuscan plantings, cold-pressed within 24 hours, and has won Best in Show at the Los Angeles International Olive Oil Competition; grass-fed cattle graze and sustain the orchards, and a tasting room sits on 20 acres of historic olives.

Marysville

Since 1999, the Keller family has handcrafted Calolea extra virgin olive oil near Marysville from hand-picked olives — century-old Mission and Manzanillo trees plus Tuscan varieties — custom-milled and cold-pressed within 24 hours. Certified extra virgin by the California Olive Oil Council with acidity of just 0.13%, Calolea took Best in Show at the Los Angeles International Olive Oil Competition and pours its award-winning oils and balsamic vinegars at a tasting room set on 20 acres of historic olives.

Camino

Hangtown Kid Apple Orchard is on Mace Road in Camino, part of the Apple Hill growing district above Placerville, "Hangtown" being the old Gold Rush name for the area before it became El Dorado County's apple country. No further confirmed details on varieties, u-pick access, or hours.

Camino

Goodness Orchard has been certified organic since 1990, a rarity on Apple Hill where most neighbors still spray. Visitors pick heirloom apples, peaches, pears, strawberries, blackberries, and tart cherries, plus 15 vegetable varieties including sweet corn and winter squash, with picking stretched from May through December. Call ahead for what's ready that week.