Phoenix Pinnacle Farms

04/21/2025

Sometimes it's fun to see the before, during and after photos of a project. Scroll through to see what Pinnacle Farms South looked like when I bought it 15 years ago.

04/17/2025

It's with heartfelt gratitude that I bring you news!
I'm ready to transition to a new career in Real Estate full time. Please help me find the next amazing owner for this beautiful property! The possibilities are endless in the right hands.

And thank you to all my dedicated supporters and for allowing me to serve you for these many years!
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A chance to own a slice of historic Phoenix with an adobe home built in 1929, and an additional apartment. This oasis in the city offers a working citrus and rare date farm with irrigation rights and provides a turn key income producing opportunity with dedicated buyers in place for all the fruits p...

03/26/2025

It's a good listen....particularly the very end, where America has become a crop importer, vs an exporter in the last few years.

Farmers say they are feeling the effects of tariffs imposed as the U.S.'s trading partners institute retaliatory tariffs.

03/26/2025

Good times at the South farm this week! Baby peaches, happy farm dogs and nice weather

03/23/2025

Who knows what this veggie flower is?

03/17/2025

Someone called me out today about not posting, so here's some of the pretty springtime farm photos! If you look closely, you'll see the lady bugs that always show up at this time of year! Citrus and Keiffer Pears are in bloom this week, and the mulberries are putting on fruit!

01/14/2025

Those open space areas (public lands) we play around in outside of Phoenix are multi-use and include wildlife and cattle. Surrounding multi-use public lands also serve as a watershed for the Phoenix Metro area. This watershed is part of the water system that provides water for us. Native grasses that ranchers often reintroduce and certainly help manage slow rainwater and filter it instead of creating erodible areas that take soil with it.

11/12/2024

Phoenix began when a farmer began growing wheat, barley, and corn with Salt River water. Tempe arose after the building of the Kirkland-McKinney and San Francisco irrigation ditches. Mesa was settled by expert agriculturalists and irrigators. Grand Avenue was constructed to provide transportation for agricultural products…

09/30/2024

It's hard to watch the cities paving over all the cooling green fields so fast, and then watching them cry that we are getting hotter every year without shaking our heads.
With another hot week in the works, farmers are working hard to adapt and change to heat tolerant and low water use crops. Baby Cara Cara Orange trees are braving the heat well and I'm looking forward to a new season!

Edit: The purpose of my post is more to show the resiliency and adaptation of farming in general, rather than lamenting the progress of the cities. Farmers sell out because it's more profitable and the kids don't want to take over, etc.

But the rapid growth and the willingness of city leaders to promote this extreme growth is having a negative impact on all of us that live here. Increasing heat index is just one of the many negative consequences.

That said, farmers are constantly adapting and changing to help feed the world, and the new baby citrus trees are a part of that and they are growing fast and looking good!

07/15/2024

Ya just gotta love Mondays! I hope your Monday is better than mine! The New Holland cab window got too hot and exploded