Organic Food Production

Patagonia Orchards is committed to promoting Organic Food Production through certification, education and advocacy.
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For over thirty-three years, Patagonia Orchards has been a grower, packer, shipper, distributor and producer of organic products. Our commitment to organic produce is as foundational as the ground we walk upon and the air we breathe. We have two key philosophies in sustainability that we operate by: environmental responsibility through certification, education, and advocacy coupled with socially responsible labor practices. As the longest Arizona-based organic produce company in Arizona, we have a unique place in the history of organic production in Arizona and we embrace new information, methods and technologies that are at the forefront of sustainability.

Commitment to the Distributor & Retailer
We offer premium organic fruits and vegetables with prompt, professional service to provide product which meets or exceeds specifications in condition, quality, food safety, and labelling and packaging, and we facilitate the most efficient transportations of our products to the marketplace. ​

Organic Certification is the Foundation

From the beginning of our company, in 1988, Patagonia Orchards has worked to help develop the organic industry in Arizona. Before there was a national program for organic certification, we held growers with whom we worked accountable by securing signed affidavits attesting to farmers’ growing methods and we implemented soil, water and tissue sampling to test for chemical residue and pathogens.  

Later, when the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 was passed, Patagonia Orchards was among the first companies to obtain organic certification through OCIA International, one of the world's oldest, largest and most trusted leaders in the organic certification industry. Today, we maintain our organic certification under USDA law as growers, handlers, and processors of organic crops and organic juice through Organic Certifiers, again, one of the first certification agencies to become accredited under the National Organic Program (NOP). We work exclusively with growers in Arizona and Mexico who share our fervent passion for caring for the earth and its people by utilizing the most current and modern organic stewardship practices and who are themselves third-party, independently certified organic.