The Cloverleaf Farm

Peach U-pick on 8/24/24 from 8 am-12noon.

O’Henry and August Lady Peach U-pick Saturday, August 24th, 2024 8am-12noon We have lots of ripe peaches and want to share them with you! These two varieties taste amazing this year and are larger than many of our other peaches were. …

Are you a member of our Ugly Fruit Club? There's still time to order today and pickup a box tomorrow (Thurs) of blemished but delicious fruit for pies, smoothies, jam, or just for bargain snacking.

A Bounty of Blenheims! I hope you’re ready for some APRICOTS! We have lots of Blenheims - and are offering them at 20% off this week. Time for some jam, and some smoothies, and some more jam, and some drying. We’ll also be opening the orchard for a Blenheim U-Pick this Saturday (6/29) from 8-noon. U-Pick Blenheims wil...

The cucumbers next door. And a big red sun.

We still have open spots in the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Fruit is coming along slowly. Starts on June 12th. Sign up on the website.

Join Our CSA The Cloverleaf Farm CSA offers weekly boxes of stone fruit for 11 weeks during the summer.

Hey folks,

Our CSA for summer fruits is now open for sign-ups. Just go to our website, find the location you want to pick up at and click the subscribe button. Looking forward to bringing you our delicious fruit this summer. The apricots and peaches look great. Nectarine crop is going to be less to none unfortunately. Can’t win them all I guess. And thanks again for your support.

Join Our CSA The Cloverleaf Farm CSA offers weekly boxes of stone fruit for 11 weeks during the summer.

Farm shots from last couple days. Lovely springtime weather in Davis. We started thinning fruit this week. (The little peaches are Zee Diamond). We’ve had some inquires about it, and the CSA subscriptions will open soon, but not quite yet. We will announce it here and on the website.

Farm shots from this morning. Wild radish weeds are living their # best life with all the rain. Trees look ok in our orchard. Some leaf curl and brown rot damage, but fair to good fruit set in most things. (Nectarine crop might be sparse). Fruit will be late though. Mid-June most likely for first stuff.

Hello CSA Supporters,

First off, thank you so much for the support over the years (and especially last year). Without your income we would be out of business after the loss of crop we suffered last year. I wanted to give you an update on the farm. We have had some more weather related issues this winter and spring, but the good news is that we will have fruit for a CSA again this year. It’s going to be a later ripening cycle like last year was, so we will not be starting your box deliveries until mid-June most likely. We should be ready to start taking sign-ups on our website around 4/15/24. I’m hopeful that we will have more spaces this year than last, and will also return to offering drop-off in Napa and Winters. We mostly depend on word-of-mouth to get the word out about the CSA, so if you have friends, co-workers, family and any other fruit lovers you think may be interested please pass the word. And finally we are also seeking farm crew for the coming season. If anybody comes to mind for the job, please tell them to send in a cover letter and resume. Thanks.

Tree Kilpatrick, Co-owner and Farm Manager
1501 Pacific Dr
Davis. CA 95616
(530) 902-8831

Robada apricots in 2022. Crop looks good so far.

This is an important bill that directly affects us at The Cloverleaf Farm. Please contact your Representative and tell them to support the bill if you can spare the time. Thanks. Tree.

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Robada

Pretty out here

Bloom is still going strong. 🤞the fruit will be heavy this season.

The goats have returned to the field next to the orchard. Fun to have them. Bloom continues. Forecast looks good for fruit this year.

Blooms and bees are out. Go trees go.

Flowers

More blooms. Nectarines and apricots just starting. Praying the rain comes and goes quickly later this week.

And we have flowers. Finally. Just starting in the earliest nectarines and about to pop in the apricots. Let’s hope the weather cooperates more this year than last. You’all probably want fruit as badly as we do.

Winter sites out in the orchard.

Finally dropping some leaves. Planted the cover crop today, getting ready for the coming rain.

Fall farm sites.

Figs, figs, sooooooh many figs. (You can get them at The Davis Food Co-op and The Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op fyi).

Found a tasty peach in the orchard. Last one most likely of 2023. Here’s to a comeback next year.

Pretty windfall Trazee peach marks the end of the stonefruit season. Man, 2023 was a rough one, but trees look ready to make a nice recovery next year. Hoping the timing of our rain and frost cooperates… (and we still have figs, lots & lots of figs).

It’s fig time. No dragonfly in the baskets we send out though. They are just kinda sleepy in the early morning hours.

Had to look hard, but I found 2 full sized perfect O’Henry peaches. Usually there are too many to handle. Hopeful that they come roaring back next year. Now it’s time to have one of these for breakfast.

View in the orchard today. Our farm is always full of dragon flies, but this one was posed for a close up

NO U-PICK 8/13/23. THAT IS A WEBSITE MISTAKE.

We have a bumper crop of a green Himrod grapes. Thanks Teena for your help with them.

Brittany Gold and Spice Zee. The crop is very low yield, but it’s still pretty…

Spice Zee white nectarines are looking apple like this year.