Thank you for visiting!
This is my first blog. Since it’s a baby blog, this photo is of new growth on avocado trees, plus newborn avocados!
My husband and I operate a large avocado ranch in Southern California. Now that our children are grown, family life has changed! Besides helping us manage the ranch, our son has started a mail order gift box/subscription business so that we can share the delicious premium fruit that we grow directly with the people who love to eat it! The whole family helps with the business, and I do the social media when I’m not teaching music lessons, directing choirs or working on the bookkeeping for the ranch.
As I have been learning how to get the word out about our avocado gift boxes and subscriptions, I have been meeting lots of people! I decided to start this blog so I could share stories about life on an avocado ranch, the changing dynamics of family life over time, recipes and food that we enjoy, and the special things that I discover along the way. Once in a while we are able to leave the ranch, so I share our travel adventures too.
I will be writing lots of different kinds of posts. Will I find a niche? Not sure yet. Stay tuned.
One small request: Please leave me a comment when you read a post so I know that YOU were here!! One more request: If you want to follow along, add your e-mail address to the “Subscribe” box on any page of the site. Hope we’ll meet up on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest too!
Cheers!
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February 14, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Welcome to the blogging life Mimi! Looking forward to future interesting posts from you!
Way to go! Good luck on your baby blog. 
March 8, 2012 at 3:09 am
Hi Mimi – great new baby blog and very interesting, I’ll definitely be trying some of your recipes and looking forward to hearing about like on an avocado ranch, how exciting!
I’ll also tag your recipes and blog in on my website, sure my followers will love the recipes too xx
March 8, 2012 at 7:16 am
Thank you so much for stopping by, Lesley! Appreciate your sharing!
April 24, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Love reading about your avocado ranch! It’s so interesting. Looking forward to meeting you in person at Camp Blogaway too!
April 24, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Thanks for visiting my blog! See you next week!
April 25, 2012 at 11:30 pm
Hi Mimi,
Thanks for stopping by and visiting me. Nice job on your header photo and tagline. You live in a great spot– I can’t get enough of having avocados in my sandwiches and salads, and of course I could happily live off of guacamole alone. I look forward to meeting you at Campblog Away. Best, Dana
April 26, 2012 at 6:39 am
Honored that you visited me! See you soon!
May 16, 2012 at 10:29 am
Mimi,
Glad I have just become a subscriber to your blog. I’ve been searching the web far and wide for a picture of what baby avocados look like and I finally got to your site! I have 13 different fruit trees on the slope of my Mission Viejo home. They aren’t as spread out as I would like but I’m limited by the confines of track home living! Still, my two 3 year old Haas avocado trees from LaVerne nursery are looking fantastic. One is 6-7 feet tall and the other is 10-12 feet. I’d like to believe that our attention to daily organic fertilizing (egg shells, fruit/vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, etc.) has helped and I’m pleased to see that we have 50-100 baby avocados emerging from flower stems. Let’s hope we get ripe fruit from them and they don’t fall off before harvesting. My other fruit trees include: Bears lime, Meyar lemon, satsuma, fuji apple, persimmon, orange, and a custom grafted three-in-one Asian pear tree (Shinko, Hosui, Shinseiki) from California Tropical Fruit Trees in Vista, CA. I look forward to learning from your expertise with avocado farming!
May 16, 2012 at 11:36 am
Hi Tim! Sounds like you have quite a farm going there! I’m not the farmer, just the farmer’s wife…and both sons are agricultural engineers. Thanks for subscribing to my blog!
January 9, 2013 at 9:00 pm
Hi Mimi!
I found your blog at http://californiamomblogs.com/.
I am just south of you in Rancho Bernardo. I love your blog! I am now following you and can’t wait to look through your blog and learn more about your farm!
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January 9, 2013 at 9:04 pm
Hi Tara! Thanks for stopping by! I’m in RB on Wednesdays at Propel Pilates!
January 31, 2013 at 11:53 am
Hi Mimi
I found your blog while looking for information in English about the avocado strong. I liked your information and your opinion about this variety (not everything should be Hass).
My wife and I also have a ranch, planted Hass avocados, with some Fuerte, and some more of Bacon and Zutano. Well, we also have some Moscatel grape vineyard for our production of raisins. We live in Competa, a town of Malaga, in Spain, a little far from here.
We send you a warm greeting.
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January 31, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Hello Gerardo! Our son has visited Spain to visit farms and ranches. So happy to hear from you! ~Mimi
May 6, 2013 at 7:14 am
Hi Mimi,
I found your blog surf the net to improve my bad english!
I think that I’ll follow you to read about your ranch, your travel, your recipes.
I write a food blog me too. I live in Italy, in a small country town called Barbianello (50 km far away from Milan). Nice too meet you!
I love avocado!!!
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May 6, 2013 at 7:30 am
Hi Lauretta! Thank you for visiting! Nice to meet you! I have been to Salsamaggiore…is your town nearby? I was in Italy to play with our community band in 2001. We had a wonderful time in Italy, traveling near Parma and Santa Margarita. I cannot read Italian, but I will enjoy your photography!!
May 6, 2013 at 11:48 pm
Yes Mimi, Salsomaggiore is not so far away from my small town.
I was in Usa the last year to visit New York, only for 5 days unfortunately.
I hope to return soon.