Harvest Time!

Maywood Farms contributes its share to the 26 million pounds of figs harvested each year in California.  We grow 16 different varieties of figs each year.  Each piece of fruit is hand picked by our employees.  (Protective eyewear and clothing is used to prevent the microscopic hairs on the fig leaves and the sap within the fruit's stem from irritating the pickers' eyes and skin).  

Most of the figs harvested are packed and sold fresh. In most cases, Maywood Farms moves the figs out just as fast as they can pick them. (Shown here are the figs being packed in trays to be shipped.)

However, some are dried for fig paste to be used in items such as Fig Newtons.  In the picture to the right, trays of figs have been spread out on trays for sun drying.