We grow stories.
On the Masumoto Family Farm, we cultivate certified organic peaches, nectarines, apricots, and grapes (for raisins).
We do our best to sustainably farm our 80 acres south of Fresno and share our harvests through food, writing, and art.
We work together as a family and farm team with our workers, always keeping in mind our ancestors who started the farm and the generations ahead to whom we must be responsible.
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Pictured from left to right: Korio, Nichola, Nikiko, Nunziata, Marcy, and Mas.
Photo by Michelle Gunn
Our Beginning
The first acres of the Masumoto Family Farm were purchased in 1948 by Takashi “Joe” Masumoto. The Masumoto family had recently returned to California after being unjustly incarcerated during World War II with 120,000 other Japanese Americans. With family labor and a stubborn resilience, the Masumotos enriched the soil and planted roots.
Today, the farm is possibly most well known for growing delicious organic peaches (though there’s nothing shabby about our nectarines, apricots, and raisins!). David Mas Masumoto brought light and audience to living and working on the farm through writing many books, the most well known: Epitaph for a Peach. A documentary film “Changing Season” was also produced (by Center for Asian American Media) about the family and farm that captures a moment of next generational transition.
“Sun Crest is one of the last truly remaining juicy peaches.”
— David mas Masumoto, farmer & writer
(Check out Mas’s books on the Books + Speaking page)