Rare Fruit Orchard

Grocery stores offer the same types of fruit... apples, oranges, peaches and pears... year round. Farmers usually stick to the kinds of fruit that they are familiar with and that are easy for them to grow, ship and store. But the fruit in the supermarket represents only a small number of the thousands of kinds of fruit that are produced by plants around the world.

The Rare Fruit Orchard exhibits 130 trees including 40 varieties from 35 countries in an attempt to demonstrate to the community the tremendous versatility of our Southern California growing environment which enables us to grow a huge variety of unusual temperate, subtropical and tropical edibles.

On the first Sunday of each month (from February thru October) Dr. Ed Hager leads a tour of the Rare Fruit Orchard . at 2 P.M., Meet at the Main Entrance.  Sturdy shoes and bottled water are suggested.

For info about rare fruit:
  A group of rare fruit enthusiasts in California organised the  “California Rare Fruit Growers.” They collect out-of-the-ordinary plants which will grow in our climate and produce uncommon fruit. 

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