About Our Products

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Since 2022, our resident Kitchen Witch, Madeline Mikkelson, has been experimenting and developing recipes to preserve and transform our freshest produce into shelf stable products that can sit proudly in your kitchen or on your next party platter. If you’ve made your way to the Ojai Community Farmer’s Market (OCFM) on Thursdays, maybe you’ve been lucky to sample some of our pilot goods from Madeline herself. 

Prior to the inception of our beloved community market, our pixie crop was exported nationally and globally with the local Ojai Pixie Co-Op. Our grapefruits were shipped through Sunkist, and our heirloom English walnuts fell to the ground and fed the squirrel population. As we lovingly rejuvenate the soil and microbiome of our orchard with our hands, goats, chickens, and diversified cover crops, our plan is to sell our produce as locally as possible. Ojai residents deserve access to food grown well. 

We’re delighted to offer our fresh produce at the OCFM, where we also sell our delicious marmalades, refreshing shrubs, and decadent walnut butter. Our products have been so popular that we can hardly keep up with demand. 

Staying true to our ethics, we replaced the sugar in our marmalades with local, small batch honey. If an ingredient can’t be grown on site or locally, we select recipes that use ingredients from organic, low-water tree crops — like apple vinegar and maple syrup. Tree crops, on average, build soil fertility, require fewer sprays, use less water, and communicate mystically with mycorrhizae. 

Our 2023 batch of our Extra Virgin Olive Oil continues to be our favorite so far. Our Taggiasca olives are notoriously smooth, with a round buttery flavor profile. We intentionally harvest early, when the olives are not quite ripe, in order to capture a balanced, spicy finish. This comes from the increased amount of polyphenols (antioxidants) present, which also give the oil a longer shelf life. Our oil is pressed at the Ojai Olive Oil Company’s mills and bottled at Mama Tree.

Sharing our goods with those you love is casting a vote for ethical treatment of land and animals. Thank you for eating consciously, choosing to pay the true cost for food, and thinking globally by acting locally.