Troy Regier was just a toddler when his parents Jim and Norma began to grow peaches on 20 acres in Reedley. He started selling the farm’s bounty at the Wednesday Santa Monica Farmers Market in high school. Fast forward to 2016: The orchard has doubled in size and Troy Regier’s daughters are the ones selling 50 stone fruit varieties at the market. The Spring Crest is the peach to get now but better move fast: it’s only in season for one more week.
50 kinds of stone fruit are grown on the Regier farm in Reedley. First to ripen are the Spring Crest and Sugar Time yellow peaches. More classic varieties will soon be at the market — the June Lady, the Fiesta Jim, the O’Henry, the Red Top, the Elegant Lady: “They’ve been around for 40 years and are fabulous,” says Farmer Tony Regier.