Generations of Exceptional Produce
In 1919, Gavrilo Spaich, Sr. immigrated from the Balkans to the Santa Clara Valley where he planted his first prune orchard. This was the beginning of an abounding harvest that has been passed on through generations of the Spaich family.
From the very first seed, California Packing Company has grown and dedicated itself to produce nothing but the finest quality dried fruits available. Quality, integrity, and consistency resonates in both California Packing Company's services and in every item they pack.
Today, the business continues to be a family affair. The Spaichs have dedicated their lives to the California Prune industry. Great care and experience go in to producing the finest quality prunes that are synonymous with the California Packing Company name.
What makes California prunes different?
Everything. California grows 99% of the United State’s production and 40% of the world’s supply.
The legendary Petit d’Agen plum was brought to California from France during the Gold Rush and grafted onto wild American plum stock. It’s the long growing seasons in California’s lush valleys with rich soil warmed by a steady sun and cool evening temperatures. It’s the hundreds of growers who hand-tend each tree to cultivate the perfect fruit. It’s the most rigorous agricultural standards of any place on earth. It’s the practice of drying prunes in climate-controlled tunnels, which California growers have honed into a precise art, balancing temperature, humidity and time. It is all these things combined that make a prune a California Prune. California Prunes are descendants of the original imported Petit d’Agen stock. Unlike other varieties, these prune plums ripen fully on the tree — pit and all — without fermenting. California grows 99% of the total United States’ production of prunes and 40% of the world’s supply. Today, there are about 46,000 acres of California Prune orchards concentrated in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys.
And what makes California Packing Company’s prunes different? Everything.
California Packing Company is the world’s leader in quality control, value, and taste. We do things differently at California Packing Company by tending to every facet of the process, from farm to table.
