🍑 Farm Store open May 15 – Dec 31 · Mon–Fri 10–6 · Sat–Sun 10–4 · 1615 Half Road, Morgan Hill · (408) 782-7600
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Stone fruit the way the Valley of Heart's Delight intended.

For nearly a century the Mariani family has grown fruit in the Santa Clara Valley. Today Andy Mariani tends over 200 varieties of cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums and pluots — every one picked fully tree-ripened, the way fruit is supposed to taste.

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The Andy's Orchard sign at 1615 Half Road, Morgan Hill
🌳Family grownMariani family, since the 1930s
🍑Tree-ripened onlyNever picked green, ever
⭐Award-winning fruitHeirlooms you can't find in stores

Right now at the orchard

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See the Harvest Calendar
Step Inside

The orchard, in 3D

Six postcards from the rows — the fruit, the store, and the sign that has welcomed the Valley for decades. It spins on its own; grab it and give it a whirl.

Heirloom cherries🍒 Heirloom Cherries
Apricots🧡 Blenheim Apricots
Peaches🍑 Tree-Ripened Peaches
Plums🍇 Dark Plums & Pluots
Artisanal jams🫙 Artisanal Jams
The Andy's Orchard sign🌳 Est. 1930s · Morgan Hill

👆 Drag to spin the orchard

Tree-ripened apricots at Andy's Orchard
Our Story

A hundred years of chasing flavor

The Mariani family put down roots in the Santa Clara Valley in the early 1930s, when this was the Valley of Heart's Delight — one of the great fruit-growing regions on Earth. Suburbs grew up around the orchards, but this one never left.

1930s

The family arrives. The Marianis begin cultivating fruit in the Santa Clara Valley, in the heart of California orchard country.

1970s

Andy takes the reins. Andy Mariani returns to the orchard and builds his life's work around one idea: grow for flavor, not for shipping.

Today

A living fruit library. Over 200 varieties — heirlooms like Blenheim apricots and Elberta peaches alongside brand-new introductions you will taste here first, many of them nowhere else.

The Fruit Library

Over 200 varieties. These are the legends.

Heirlooms the big growers abandoned, experiments that exist only in these rows, and Andy's own signature fruit. Filter by family or search a name — then come taste them in season.

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No variety matches that search — but with 200+ growing here, ask us at the farm store. We probably have it. 🍑

Plan Your Visit

The harvest calendar

Fruit does not care about your schedule — it ripens on its own. Tap a month to see what the orchard is picking, tasting and celebrating.

Tours · Tastings · Harvest Walks

Come taste the orchard properly

Five or six times each summer, Andy and his team open the rows. You will taste varieties you have never heard of, hear the stories behind them, and learn how great fruit is actually grown.

Fresh cherries at Andy's Orchard

🍒 Fruit Tastings

Tables of just-picked fruit — at a full tasting you can sample over 100 varieties in a single visit, from the first heirloom cherries of June to late-August peaches.

⏱ About 2 hours📅 Jun – Aug
Dark plums ripening at Andy's Orchard

🌳 Orchard Tours

Walk the rows with the people who farm them. Local farming history, how each variety is cultivated, and the sustainable practices behind tree-ripened flavor.

⏱ About 1.5 hours👨‍👩‍👧 Family friendly
White peaches at Andy's Orchard

🧺 Harvest Walks

The tour, plus your own two hands. Harvest walks finish in the rows, where you pick your own tree-ripened fruit in small quantities to take home.

⏱ About 2 hours🍑 Pick your own

Request your spot

Tastings and tours fill fast in season. Send a request and the orchard will confirm your booking personally — no payment taken online.

Rather talk? Call (408) 782-7600
The Farm Store

Fresh in season. Dried all year.

The little store at 1615 Half Road is where the Valley comes for fruit the way it used to taste. Fresh from the rows May to December — and the dried fruit, nuts and gift boxes ship nationwide, year-round. Build your list here, then call it in.

Your farm store list 🧺

    📞 Call (408) 782-7600 to order Mail order ships across the country. Fresh fruit is farm-store only, in season.
    See It

    Two minutes in the rows

    Why a tasting here ruins supermarket peaches for people — in the orchard's own words.

    Word of Mouth

    People drive a long way for this fruit

    ★★★★★

    "Booking a tour and tasting at Andy's Orchard offers a truly unique and enriching experience — a must for any fruit enthusiast."

    Kathryn BesserTour & tasting guest
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    "You won't believe how different the fruits taste from the standard varieties you find in your regular grocery store."

    Noelle G.Don't miss the fruit tasting and orchard tours
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    "The day was perfect, the fruit was perfectly ripe and delicious, and we had a really nice time picking our own peaches, plums and pluots."

    Mellea M.Tasting & orchard tour guest
    Visit Us

    Behind Live Oak High, under the old trees

    Locals know the turn: Half Road, just behind Live Oak High School's football field. Come hungry.

    Farm Store Hours

    Checking hours…
    Monday – Friday10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
    Saturday – Sunday10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
    SeasonMay 15 – December 31
    January – mid-MayStore closed · dried fruit by mail order

    You will also find us at Bay Area farmers markets during the season — ask in store for this week's markets.

    Find the orchard

    Address1615 Half Road, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
    🗺️ Get Directions Book a Tour First
    Good Questions

    Before you come out

    Cherries open the year — the first heirloom varieties ripen in late May and the season runs through June. They are also the stars of the first tasting tours of the summer.

    Yes — tastings, tours and harvest walks are scheduled events, five or six across the summer, and they fill up. Send the booking request above or call (408) 782-7600 and the orchard will confirm your spot personally.

    On a Harvest Walk, yes — the walk finishes in the rows and you pick your own tree-ripened fruit in small quantities to take home. Day-to-day picking is reserved for the orchard crew so the fruit survives to the store.

    Dried fruit, nuts, olive oils and gift boxes ship nationwide, year-round — that is the mail-order side of the farm store. Fresh fruit is too delicate to ship the way we pick it, so fresh is farm-store and farmers-market only.

    The farm store runs May 15 through December 31 — including the holiday season, when the dried-fruit gift boxes take over. From January to mid-May the store rests with the trees, and dried fruit is available by mail order.

    Two things: varieties chosen for flavor instead of shipping, and patience. Commercial fruit is picked green to survive trucks. Ours ripens fully on the tree and is picked at eating ripeness — the way the Valley of Heart's Delight earned its name.

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