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Shields Date Garden
Operating since December 24, 1924 in the Coachella Valley. Grows and processes nine named date varieties — Abbada, Barhi, Deglet Noor, Halawi, Honey, Khadrawi, Medjool, Thoory, Zahidi — and produces Date Crystals and Date Sugar on-site.
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A working date garden operating in Indio, [[berkeley|California]]‘s [[colorado-desert|Coachella Valley]] since December 24, 1924. They grow and pack nine named varieties — Abbada, Barhi, Deglet Noor, Halawi, Honey, Khadrawi, Medjool, Thoory, and Zahidi — and process secondary products on-site including Date Crystals and Date Sugar. The property includes an on-site café, a guided grounds walk, and a theater.
Why it’s listed
Hundred-year-old date orchards are scarce U.S. infrastructure for a tree crop that grows in only a handful of North American microclimates. Maintaining nine distinct varieties — heritage cultivars like Thoory and Zahidi alongside the more common Deglet Noor and Medjool — is genetic-preservation work for the species.
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- Instance of: [[orchard]]
- Member of: [[farm]]
- Contained by: [[colorado-desert]]
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way/678563822 - Shields Date Garden
A listing in the [[0mn1one|0mn1.one]] [[directory]]. Filed under [[colorado-desert]] in [[directory|the directory]] (bioregion likely needs correction — operation is in the Coachella Valley).
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