Any orange groves left in Orange County? (Santa Ana, Anaheim: apartment, house)

[Coldjensens]

A friend of ours has a grove in Orange. He was told that it is the last grove in Orange. I think that he has 50 or 100 trees.

[CAVA1990]

Seemd like they were pretty much gone from Orange County when I moved there in the late 60s. We had a lot of them in San Bernardino County when I was a little kid before then, particularly around Alta Loma.

[Tex?Il?]

I know this is an old thread, but I thought I would add:

I was up around CSUN (Northridge) the other day, and there is a small park with a historic orange grove on the campus.

I agree it is sad that the Orange Groves are gone. I guess a small park with a historic orange grove to show what the region looked like before development occurred is better than nothing, but still.

There is also the California state citrus historic park, a working orange grove that is I guess a place to learn all about it.

Hopefully the weak housing market and the proactive local environment groups will successfully save a working agricultural communities in Ventura County. I'll be going to the Strawberry festival next month. It is a little pricy, but its a good way to have fun, enjoy good food, while supporting agriculture.

[SoCalCroozer]

Umm why do you people think the orange groves are all gone? LOL.........American companies and labor can't compete with South American countries who produce oranges and pay their laborers with food scraps off the back of the truck. You can thank "globalization" for the destruction of not only the orange industry in CA but a host of other industries. Plus no one wants to pay $5.00 for an orange. Just look at all the strawberry fields and who's out there picking them. Mexican migrant workers making minimum wage. No California is going to pay $10.00 for a basket of strawberries. But you bet your rear end they will pay $400 for an Apple I-phone! Just look in the mirror to understand why the US economy is in such a dire mess.

[wrcousert]

Why do they need to pay laborers? Let the customers pick their own fruit. There are lots of places where you can do just that. I remember picking green beans on a farm in Oregon when I was a kid. It was fun and the prices were great.

[CAVA1990]

Recently we've been seeing bags of "heirloom" navel oranges at our Trader Joes here in Northern Virginia. I've been wondering what the heck those are. I can't imagine there's much of a genetic difference from the current ones. They look and taste the same. I always thought a navel orange was a navel orange.

[wrcousert]

I Googled "Heirloom Oranges" and found this - Happy Consumptive: Navel Orange (Heirloom)

[wrcousert]

There's still a huge amount of vacant land in Riverside county. Why aren't they using it for orange groves and strawberry fields?

[loveorangecounty]

There is a small grove in San Juan Capistrano off the Ortega Highway and Antonio. Probably owned by the Moiso family.

[Fontucky]

I grow Washington navels. Maybe I should call them Heirloom and jack up the price.