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 Holiday Greetings from Pearson Ranch – December 1999
Dear Friends,

Everyone in the San Joaquin Valley is holding their breath, hoping that Mother Nature cooperates and allows the harvest of this year’s beautiful crop.  After the freeze and heavy snow last year, farming was more important than 

              ever.  Our men went into the groves and nurtured our trees to perfect health.  They are now heavy laden with superb orange fruit.  Riding through the Pearson Ranch groves is a breath taking experience.
The Valley is such a rich garden that it called us to begin our new enterprise – Pearson Ranch Preserves.  We have a simple dream of taking fresh fruit, sugar and lemon juice and, in footsteps of women through the centuries, put up preserves so that we can savor the fruit beyond harvest time.  It was logical to start with an orange preserve.  Three years ago, I took a precious home recipe and
             began the journey.  It took many minds across the USA working together to help us get our first finished product.  As Dr. Olga Padilla-Zakour and Malcolm Bourne from the Cornell University technology Lab explained there are 200 elements in an orange.  Once you get them bouncing around in a large kettle, anything can happen.  And does happen.  Sliding on my stomach across the floor of a steamy kitchen (fortunately without injury) this came resoundingly to mind. This week-end we will be launching our product throughout the stores who carry Pearson Ranch Oranges.  Heartfelt thanks to the many folks who have been of assistance and support.
             Destiny and the Pearson Ranch gang have also been applying the art of preservation to the Pearson Ranch Industrial Park, founded in the 1960’s by our parents.  We are in the process of turning the collection of buildings into a painted allegory for the San Joaquin Valley.  Using a pallet of citrus oranges and yellows, sky and water blues, and emerald greens, the buildings will form a 3-D painting by busy highway 65.  We are also adding plantings and gardens appropriate to our mediterranean climate.
Pet News:  Destiny’s daughter Tahirih found a fugitive furry fellow and Tony Marquez spotted a missing dog notice at the railroad crossing.  Working together they reunited the lost animal with its worried owners.  I’m also happy to report that Willow the Goat has made a full recovery from her horn-removal surgery, and Lambert (black ram) and Starling (white ewe) are earning their keep by keeping the grass eaten.

Healthy, happy, and warm regards,
Debrah Pearson and Destiny Marquez

 
                           Previous Newsletters                         
'99 December Letter
'99 Fall Letter
'98 Freeze Bulletin
'98 December Holiday Letter
Week of November 30, 1998

 

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