01/22/2024
Closed for the season. Thank you to our wonderful customers for supporting our family farm!
See you in November 🍊
Mandarin Hill Orchards
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Mandarin Hill Orchards has provided fresh citrus from our local, family owned and operated orchard since 1943.
Frank and Bernice Aguilar began their adventure in 1943 when they Married and started a 50-acre farming operation in the small Placer County town of Penryn, California. Initially the farm consisted of plum, pear and peach trees along with a few mandarins that had been planted in 1880s by Welsh settlers. In the early 1950s a tree disease hit Placer County and killed pear trees all over the region.
Farmers across the county uprooted and burned the dead trees. In 1956, the Aguilars decided to replace their trees with mandarins. The couple planted mandarin trees for the next seven years until their 20-acre mandarin orchard was complete. These were hard years for the young couple since it takes mandarin trees six or seven years before they produced sellable fruit. By now they had two children, Tom and Susan, who helped tend the trees after school, and Bernice took a job with the State. The years passed and their kids and trees both grew. They found few people in the area had ever heard of mandarins, so they shipped most of the fruit to a Sacramento wholesaler and began giving away the sweet citrus to local friends to help spread the word about this easy-to-peel, healthy treat. Soon people started buying them not just for themselves, but also as gifts. In 1972, one December night got so cold the water pipes, irrigation ponds and mandarin trees all froze. The next day hundreds of mandarin trees were lost. Being intrepid farmers, the family started replanting the next spring. Along with new trees, they installed an overhead irrigation system, which serves a dual purpose of watering and helping to control frost. Now that Frank and Bernice have passed away, their son Tom and his family oversee the day-to-day operations. Tom’s innovative ideas such as adding solar panels on the packing house and using social media has helped keep the ranch modern. Stop by soon for a visit and start making some orchard adventures for your family.
01/22/2024
Closed for the season. Thank you to our wonderful customers for supporting our family farm!
See you next November 🍊
01/19/2024
Today, Friday 1/19, is our last day of the season. We are open until 4pm.
Thank you for supporting our small business!
01/13/2024
The aroma of the clementines are like no other. 🍊These sweet mandarins are picked and ready for you. We are quickly approaching the END OF THE SEASON so don’t delay. Open daily 8-5 until we are sold out
01/09/2024
The last of the Satsumas have been picked and we have very little left for sale.
But the clementines are coming in off the tractor and they look and smell so amazing. Have you had a locally grown clementine? They are a different variety of mandarin, sweeter and sometimes have seeds. The flavor is delicious and great of juicing too.
We also have navels and grapefruit. We expect to be open for another week or so.
01/05/2024
Open everyday 8-5pm
The shed will be open for another couple of weeks!
On Saturday’s and Sunday’s we have wine tasting 11-4pm
12/27/2023
The packing shed is packed full with tree ripened, juicy mandarins. Our season runs until mid January and we are OPEN DAILY 8-5.
12/22/2023
We have mandarins!
Open daily 8-5
12/16/2023
11/17/2023
Our packing shed is open daily 8-5 for the season. Our amazing field crew has been working hard to pick the mandarins that are ready. It will be a light crop this year.
We are excited to welcome our loyal customers back but want to remind you that we do NOT allow people to pick mandarins from the trees.
You can also visit our booth at the this Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Placer building.
Hope to see you all soon!
11/14/2023
2023 Mandarin season update…We will be open this weekend 8-5 selling our field lugs(40lbs) only. We also have persimmons, until they are sold out.
Visit us at the Mandarin Festival in Auburn Friday, Saturday and Sunday with our 3lbs bags.
We look forward to seeing our wonderful customers again this season but need to remind you we DO NOT allow you to pick mandarins from our trees. You need to come to the shed to purchase them.
Did you know that each weekend you can also do some wine tasting right here at the same spot. is located right here so plan to buy some mandarins and do a little wine tasting too.
11/08/2023
We are just sitting here waiting for the mandarins to ripen…happy Wednesday
10/21/2023
Our 2023 Mandarin season is off to a late start. Our shed won’t be open until at least November 15th.
10/08/2023
Come and check out all that we have to offer.
09/21/2023
Plan to visit our orchard on October 8th for this fun family friendly Placer County agricultural event!
2023 Farm & Barn Tour 2023 Tour Details Printable Tour Information Visit a Farm during Mandarin Season FIND A FARM Explore the NEW PlacerGROWN Directory! EXPLORE Enjoy Award-WinningVintages on the PlacerCounty Wine Trail LEARN MORE Find a Farm using our Interactive County Map! FIND A FARM Search Pla...
09/16/2023
What an incredible evening! We were happy to host the fundraiser dinner in the Orchard and it was an excellent event!
09/12/2023
Join us for this years Farm & Barn tour happening Sunday, October 8th 10am-4pm.
Come and check out all the things happening on our ranch. There will be local vendors, a food truck, picnic area, self guided tour, free kids crafts and wine tasting Happy Dayz Vineyard.
Hope to see you there!
01/19/2023
We are closed for the season. Mark your calendars to check back with us around the first of November!
Thanks for being our customer and supporting our family farming operation.
01/08/2023
Currently SOLD OUT of Mandarins. We will keep you posted after the storm if we have more.
01/07/2023
Despite the weather WE ARE STILL OPEN
We have a limited supply of mandarins and navel oranges so make your trip to see us soon.
Field lugs $40
OPEN DAILY 8-5
01/01/2023
Happy New Year!
We are Open today until we sell out of mandarins
12/29/2022
Throwback Thursday…way back to November 1988.
This article from talks about the family business, how there were, at that time, two generations working together and how the 3rd generation(being young kids at the time) were “being trained” to enter the family operation.
Fast forward to today and our family is still doing the same thing but with the next generation.
We hope you come and visit us a few more times before our mandarin season is over. We plan to be open until about mid-late January.
12/22/2022
We are open everyday 8-5 except our holiday hours
Christmas Eve 8-4
closed on Christmas.
Come and visit us and stock up on the delicious and sweet mandarins for your holiday gathering!
12/15/2022
Open daily 8-5 and this weekend we will have local crafts, handmade tamales and wine tasting 11-4pm.
Come and check us out!
12/13/2022
Wanted to share a cool news segment at our family orchard from 2018.
Remember we are open daily 8-5, except Christmas Day.
This weekend we will have tamales, crafts, and wine tasting 11-4
Do you know that more citrus fruit comes from California than it does from Florida? John Bartell visits the "mother" orange tree that started it all, and sto...
12/02/2022
Open 8-5 this weekend for our open house event, come and check out our packing shed and what we have to offer. Maria is selling her amazing tamales 11-4pm, we have wine tasting 11-5pm and of course sweet and juicy mandarins. Check out our sorting machine from holland too. Rain or shine.
Address
2334 Mandarin Hill Ln
Penryn, CA
95663
Opening Hours
| Monday | 8am - 5pm |
| Tuesday | 8am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 8am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 8am - 5pm |
| Friday | 8am - 5pm |
| Saturday | 8am - 5pm |
| Sunday | 8am - 4pm |
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