Lucich/Santos Farms

Blossom Hill Packing/Lucich and Santos Farms have specialized in growing apricots for the past 35 years. Located in Patterson, CA, the family has been farming for more than 90 years and takes great pride in providing good-tasting, high-quality fruit to its customers. This grower-shipper has more than 15 apricot varieties planted for the fresh market, as well as conventional and organic peaches, nectarines, cherries, pluots and apriums. About 120 acres of the farms’ 800 acres are certified organic, and they are working to certify another 80 acres in the coming years. They also maintain a five-acre experimental block to test new varieties and hybrids of cherries, pluots, apriums and the peacotum, a cross between peach, apricot and plum.