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Gless Ranch

Gless Ranch is a Southern California family citrus and tree-fruit operation founded 1958 by John J. Gless and Janet McCandless. Groves of grapefruit, tangerines, limes, lemons, dates, avocados, and figs across Riverside, Coachella Valley, and Kern County; stewardship of historic groves at the California Citrus State Historic Park; farmer's market in Woodcrest since 2017.

What they do

Gless Ranch is a Southern [[berkeley|California]] family citrus and tree-fruit operation founded in 1958 by John J. Gless and Janet McCandless, who pioneered citrus cultivation in the unsuitable granite soil of the Woodcrest area east of Riverside. The ranch now farms grapefruit, tangerines, limes, lemons, dates, avocados, and figs across Riverside, [[colorado-desert|Coachella Valley]], and Kern County. The operation also runs a state-of-the-art tree nursery propagating avocado and citrus varieties for industry sale, and stewards historic groves at the California Citrus State Historic Park. The Gless Ranch Farmer’s Market opened in its current form in 2017 and remains the primary direct-retail surface.

Why it’s listed

Three substantive filters. Lineage-authorized: 68 years of family stewardship across multiple Southern [[berkeley|California]] counties, second and third generation now active. Heritage citrus / historic-park stewardship: maintenance of historic groves at the California Citrus State Historic Park is meaningful germplasm and cultural-landscape preservation in a region where most pioneer citrus has been paved over. Diversified perennial crops: citrus + dates + avocados + figs is real polyculture in a region that defaults to monoculture.

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Instance of: [[citrus-grove]]
  • Member of: [[farm]]
  • Contained by: [[los-angeles-basin]]
  • Also grows: [[orchard]]
  • Founded by: [[john-j-gless]]
  • Stewards: [[california-citrus-state-historic-park]]
  • Operates: [[gless-ranch-farmers-market]]

Sources

Related concepts: [[farm]], [[orchard]], [[citrus-grove]], [[lineage-authorized]].

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