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Churchill Orchard in the Ojai Valley is in the beautiful East End of the Ojai Valley in Southern California.
We grow about 12 acres of tangerines – mostly Pixie tangerines, Seedless Kishu tangerines, and Page tangors, – and 3 acres of avocados – Hass, Fuerte, and Bacon varieties, plus a single magnificent Mexicola Grande. Everything we grow is CCOF-certified Organic.
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Pixie Season wrap for 2025
We’ve wrapped up our 2025 Pixie mail order season, thanks to all of you. Above, a Polaroid of our first load of Pixies over at Monterey Market in Berkeley in 1990 – side by side with a photo (not a Polaroid!) of our last-of-the-season Pixies in the same spot in 2025. This is our 35th year in partnership with Monterey Market. Let us express our gratitude to MM.
We will be back in the mail order business in January of 2026, so sign up for our email list and we will alert you every time we start taking orders. Stay tuned.
Visit the Churchill Orchard web store
Our web store offers mail order service during our growing season – late January thru May. We offer Kishu Mandarins in February (short season), followed by Pixie tangerines, Hass avocados, sometimes other seasonal delights depending on our supply. Our catalog is open year round for browsing.
Happy 20th Anniversary Little Wonder
We just noticed – January 2024 is the 20th Anniversary of the birth of our little “Little Wonder” Kishu mandarin brand. It kinda snuck up on us. But we thought we would take a moment and celebrate the little guy. Read our celebratory blog post below.
News from the Grove
Rain. A lot of rain.
December 27, 2025It’s been a wet week. Ojai and its mountains had the highest rainfall totals in all of California. Hydrographers call this precipitation pattern “flashy” – years of very low rainfall followed by a spectacular deluge when the conditions set up right. The Transverse Mountains sitting next to the Pacific. A perfect… Read more
Jim’s thoughts on the current immigration enforcement activities
July 18, 2025On July 17 I was interviewed by Martha Raddatz, co-anchor of the ABC Sunday news magazine show This Week with George Stephanopoulos, about current immigration enforcement activities. Why me? I’ve been doing production agriculture for 47 years; I work and have worked a lot with Mexican farm workers, and I’m… Read more
“Native Planter” Episode Two: Sharing the Landscape
March 25, 2025Native Planter Episode Two: Sharing the Landscape Mike’s been farming Churchill Orchard for 12 years now! He’s developed his own game… Mike talks about learning how to farm with nature and still bring in a delicious harvest in this 3-minute video. Mike: “The oak trees take what, 5% of the… Read more
Churchill Orchard’s Native Planter: Mike Sullivan
January 15, 2025Video: Churchill Orchard’s Native Planter: Mike Sullivan Since Mike came to Churchill Orchard 13 years ago, he has steadily embroidered its citrus and avocado groves with a crazy quilt of native plants. There is a method to this madness. Meet our resident plant freak and deep thinker. Read more
One week delay on Ojai Farmers Market
January 11, 2025I thought last week that we would be in the Ojai Sunday Farmers’ Market starting January 12, but alas it ain’t a gonna happen – some of us got a little sick, all of us had too much to do, we are affected by the tragedy of the fires in… Read more
Jim & Gael got hitched!
January 4, 2025Gael and I went to Yosemite in September and got married! Gael has been working with me at the Sunday Ojai Farmer’s Market starting now on her 5th year. Here we are last year with our friend Doug LaBarre’s 1953 Chevy 3/4T truck, which he was kind enough to let… Read more