Local Growers
Fresh fruits and vegetables have a personal and distinctive place of origin.
Independent & small scale family farms contribute to our regional abundance and landscape with a wide variety of fresh, peak of season produce.
Check out some of our notable farmer profiles to see who’s growing your food.
DePalma Farms
DePalma Farms represents three generations of farming in Northern California, since 1951. Pat DePalma and his parents emigrated to the United States from Bitritto-Bart, Italy in 1947.
In search of the most fertile soil, the DePalma family moved to the fertile San Joaquin Valley in California. They purchased 23 acres in Escalon to grow peaches and grapes there.
Today, the DePalma family farms land from Modesto to Lodi and distributes its fine produce throughout the United States and Canada. In addition to peaches and wine and table grapes, they also farm cherries, olives, nectarines, corn, almonds, walnuts, pistachios and persimmons.
They can be found at various Farmer’s Markets in Northern California selling their farm to table fresh products.
