Adopt-A-Tree Program
Please note the updated program information on this page before applying.
2024 applications are now CLOSED. We are grateful for all interest. 2025 applications will open in January 2025.
What is Adopt-A-Tree?
Adopt-A-Tree at the Masumoto Family Farm is an experiential learning opportunity. For 1 year, you’ll be involved with four things…
Who should apply to Adopt-A-Tree? Anyone with…..
A commitment to coordinate a group of people. You will apply representing a team of your choosing (we recommend 6-12 people, but you can also have less people too, minimum of 2 people). You’ll be in charge of making sure everyone receives important information as the season unfolds, helping people get prepared for harvest and then distribution / sharing of your fruit. Your team will harvest your own tree and take home all the fruit from it!
Willingness to keep several dates open, knowing you will come harvest 2 consecutive weekends. Harvest scheduling is complex. There’s no way around it. We ask you to save 4 weekends (last two weekends in July and first two in August) as possible harvest dates and sometime in the first weeks of July we will let you know the final determination of harvest weekends. Each team will only need to come either Saturday and Saturday or Sunday and Sunday of two consecutive weekends (two total harvest days). Each team can bring a maximum of 6 people per harvest day (these can be different people each weekend, the same, or a mix as long as it does not go beyond 6).
More about the fruit….
You’ll apply to adopt either a Le Grand nectarine tree and/or an Elberta peach tree. During harvest, you’ll experience a spectrum of flavor and ripeness as you decipher what is ready and what needs to ripen more. Each team typically takes home approximately 300 pounds of certified organic fruit per adopted tree (subject to change depending on the unpredictable parts of farming and nature).
2024 Pricing:
$800 to adopt a Le Grand nectarine tree
$850 to adopt an Elberta peach tree**** (Why the price difference? The Elberta peaches have been changing their ripening patterns dramatically over the past 5-7 years. Our records are no longer as helpful in determining the optimal harvest dates; we feel like in 2023 we lucked out, and luck is not a sustainable plan. This year we have a new strategy. Adopting an Elberta peach tree will also include an extra “insurance” variety: Baby Crawford peaches. If you adopted last year and attended our welcome performance, you got to taste this variety. It ripens a little ahead of Elberta. If you adopt an Elberta peach tree, you’ll also get at least some Baby Crawford peaches as we try to restructure this program and anticipate unpredictable ripening.)
$1650 to adopt both
Meet one of our favorite nectarines: Le Grand.
The Le Grand has been called the “granddaddy of nectarines” – with an exuberant flavor that blends both high acid and high sugar in a luscious combination of nectarine pizzazz. The flavor screams out joy. This heirloom fell out of favor in part because it is cling (the edible nectarine flesh clings to the pit) and it can develop cosmetic uniqueness like “rusting” which is simply a dusty colored sheen. We love it because of its flavor!
Meet one of our old heirloom peaches: Elberta
Elberta is one of those old fashioned, creamy, buttery smooth peaches with a bright yellow flesh and a golden skin when ripe. Some of you will remember the magical name – Elberta – memories of a family tree in the back yard or eating one a long time ago.
