Gabriel Farm’s Certified Organic “Asian Pear & Apple Juice” is truly an Estate juice if there ever was one. We collect all the fruit that we can from our 14 acre orchard and truck it down to Graton in bins to the cannery. Our local cannery requires that we bring in 10 tons of fruit in order to get a date on the canning schedule. In order for us to get this much fruit together, we must bring Asian Pears & Apples at the same time. The amount of “juice fruit” that our orchard generates is just about 10 tons each season if we combine Asian Pears & Apples. What we came to find out after the first few pressings is that this combination creates one of the most tasty and refreshing juices that we know of. It has the traditional tones of Apple mixed with the smoothness and spiciness of Asian Pears. Additionally, it also offers the “Apple a Day” phenomenon blended with the less-known healing and nutritional values of Asian Pears – used for centuries for the improvement of the respiratory system and for their quantity of dietary fiber.
Now in its 12th year of production, we can offer a few ideal uses of our juice, and hope to peak your interest in exploring other possibilities. We primarily drink it cold – either over ice on a tremendously hot day or just from the refrigerator. When we are lucky enough to have sparkling water in the house, we enjoy making what our son Henry named the “Grungy Gopher”. This is a half & half blend of sparkling water and juice with a little bit of ice.
Gabriel Farm’s Certified Organic “Asian Pear & Apple Juice” is a one-of-a-kind juice. Our juice stands apart in that we can completely account for where each piece of fruit that was pressed into our juice comes from. This may seem like a simple fact, but I am not aware of any other juice offering today that can say the same thing. Not only can we account for the fruit that goes into our juice, but you, the drinker of our juice, may come to visit and see the place where it all comes from. Through our Farm Visit CSA, you can visit the farm and pick apples in the fall, plant new apple trees in the spring and take photos of the blossoms at the height of bloom time. This is quite unusual in the land of juice these days. Even some of the more local producers of juice cannot make the same claim as they buy in fruit from other orchards and even other states to make their product. Unfortunately, it doesn’t ever seem to mention that on the label.
