Hey all. It’s time for the annual U-pick at our farm, The Cloverleaf Farm. It’s from 8am-12 noon on Saturday August 16th. We will have the O’Henry, August Lady, and Summer Lady peach sections open for picking. We also have some late apricots, figs and maybe a few Fantasia ugly fruits available. Please follow the signs and only use the freeway route from the Kidwell exit to Olmo Lane to get to the farm. (Google maps gave horrible directions in the past. Do not turn off of Pedrick Rd. to come from the north). Looking forward to seeing everybody out in the orchard. The peaches are really good this year and the best way to get them is straight from the trees. Btw the peaches are $3.50 per pound at the U-pick.

Hey Folks (Especially all the folks in our CSA program),

Our crop is still not quite ripe enough to pick, so we are delaying the start of the boxes a week. The first CSA box will be on Wednesday 6/11/25. We apologize for the wait. It has been a cooler spring, and the trees are just taking their own sweet time. And on the bright side if you still want to sign-up, you now have one more week before it starts. Thanks. Tree.

The Cloverleaf Farm

1501 Pacific Dr

Davis. CA 95616

(530) 902-8831 

thecloverleaffarm@gmail.com

The Cloverleaf Farm will be hiring temporary farm crew members to help us in our orchard to thin fruit and work the harvest season.  If it’s a good fit for you and us, we thin the trees in the spring starting in April, and harvest throughout the summer (late May-Sept). Harvest is the busiest part of our year and involves picking, sorting, packing, and delivering stone fruit. We also will need assistance at our farmers market stand in Sacramento on Sundays, and at a few U-picks at the farm in July and August. The delivery route includes Sacramento and the Bay Area. Experience in farming, especially orchard work, is great but not a necessity. We want to hire folks who are reliable and hardworking, excited about learning stone fruit tree production, comfortable going up and down an 8 foot orchard ladder, and accustomed to physical work outdoors in a farm setting.

The Cloverleaf Farm is a fun and lively farm with a 4-acre organic stone fruit orchard of nectarines, peaches, plums, figs, and apricots. We will be a crew of 3-5, and you will also sometimes help with other miscellaneous tasks. You’ll need a car to get to work at the farm off I-80 near Dixon. Pay begins at minimum wage with a potential for a higher hourly wage depending on experience and ability to manage others. The work weeks will be about 30-40 hours a week. However there is flexibility if you are only available on a part-time basis. Email your resume and a short cover letter with an explanation of your interest in the job and your employment related goals for this position to: thecloverleaffarm@gmail.com 

We can contact you to meet for a farm tour and interview. Feel free to also call me at (530)902-8831 for further details. Tree Kilpatrick. Farm Manager. Co-Owner.

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. Unfortunately the fruit got hit with a bit of powdery mildew which is a benign plant disease that makes the white splotches you see in the photo. It has no effect on flavor and is harmless to us humans. It also washes off pretty easily. This does make it hard to sell the fruit to our wholesale customers though. Pick your own fruit for the discounted price of $2.50/lb. Enjoy some time outdoors and bring home peaches for snacking, drying, jamming…we’ll also have some of our own jams for sale. The orchard will be open for a U-Pick in our 80 tree peach block on Saturday, August 24th, from 8 am to noon.

The weather forecast is for the 80s with abundant sunshine, so make sure to bring water, sunblock, and a hat.

Google maps is finally giving good directions to the farm, hooray. Take the Kidwell exit off I-80, head down Olmo Lane toward the Gotham Greens greenhouses, turn left at the sign “Journey’s End” and follow the signs from there. Please drive slowly on the gravel and dirt roads so that you don’t kick up dust.

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 most of our 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.

(530) 902-8831 

thecloverleaffarm@gmail.com