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We hope this site will help you get to know who we are and what we have to offer.

We are the Lewis family; Greg and Sherry, Ryan, Jordan, Alex and Kelsey. My (Greg) parents, Loren and Barbara Lewis, moved from Sacramento to Newcastle in 1965 in order to raise their four sons in a rural environment. My brothers and I attended Newcastle Elementary School and Placer High School. My parents live in the same home in which we grew up, about one mile from my home. My parents planted 1,000 mandarins in 1982 at their Ridge Road home and still operate Magnolia Hill Orchard, a four generation farm.

I'm a General Contractor and my wife, Sherry, is a public school teacher. With our four children, Ryan, Jordan, Alex and Kelsey,  we moved to our 20 acre ranch in 1999 when it was just a field of dry star thistle waist deep. Since then we have built a home, barn, and planted many trees and vines. Together, in May of 2000, with the generous help of family and friends, we planted 2,000 Satsuma Owari Mandarin trees.  In 2002 we planted one acre of Syrah and Barbera wine grapes (approx. 800 vines). Since then we have added to  the orchard 50 Minneola Tangelos,  50 Navel Oranges, 30 Pomograntes, 5 peach, 5 apricots, 5 plums, 5 cherries and our own veggy patch.

We live in the midst of our orchard, atop a ridge with a 150 mile view of the upper Sacramento valley, mountains and awesome sunsets. We count it a priviledge and blessing to partner with earth, sun and Creator to grow whole, natural, and nutritious fruit that we can share with you. We grow our mandarins using natural and organically approved methods of farming. We are classified as "natural", using mowing and weedeating for weed control, compost and manure for fertiziler, and a natural mineral oil to deal with a few buds we have. We are organic in belief and practice, but not certified. We do not use pesticides, herbicides or synthetic fertizilers. We only use only OMRI approved materials.

Nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, the Newcastle region has been producing some of the finest fruits and vegtables for many generations. We plan on continuing that tradition at Sunset Ridge.

We sell fruit locally at our farm store and in various retail outlets. We also ship tree ripened fruit nationwide. Each box we ship is meticulously hand picked and packed with great care so as to provide you and your family with the best tasting fruit possible. We hope you enjoy how good quality tastes.