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A family farm in the northern San Joaquin Valley near Yosemite, working the same ground for five generations. It is the first almond farm in the world to hold certification from both the Regenerative Organic Alliance and Regenified.

Sheep and chickens graze the orchard floors about six months of the year. Hedgerows of rosemary, lavender and deer grass ring the trees, drawing in beneficial insects and buffering the orchards from the farms next door. The ground stays covered and mostly untilled, so the carbon stays in the soil. Owl boxes go up instead of poison.

We chose Burroughs because regenerative organic is the highest legitimate standard in agriculture right now. Not just "not synthetic," but actively rebuilding soil and ecosystem health. Their own way of putting it is better than ours: regeneration for every generation.

A fourth-generation family farm in Hanford, in the heart of Central California's fertile San Joaquin Valley. They grow pistachios and they process them, in a plant the family built on its own ground. Their line for it is better than anything we could write: their organic pistachios remain in their care from tree to truck.

Every orchard is drip irrigated, the most efficient method there is. All of the water used during harvest is recycled back into irrigation. A six-acre solar farm powers much of the operation, and the plant material gathered at harvest is composted and returned to the ground as fertilizer.

We buy direct, with no distributor in the middle, which means we know what season our pistachios were harvested and who handled them on the way here.

Our walnuts are grown by the Martella family, who have farmed Stanislaus County for four generations, and they are pasteurized a few hundred yards up the same road at Grower Direct Nut Co., the processor the same family runs. Two addresses on Geer Road in Hughson. One family. A walnut that never changes hands between the orchard and our door.

The farm is Regenerative Organic Certified for walnuts, which audits the soil and the people who work it, not just the absence of synthetic inputs. Cover crops go in as a natural source of nitrogen, prunings are chipped back into the ground, and the orchards run on drip and micro irrigation. Solar arrays cover about eighty percent of the operation's electricity. Even the shells get used, spread on the farm roads to keep the dust down.

At Grower Direct the walnuts are steam-pasteurized on a Napasol system, a dry saturated steam process held under vacuum at a precisely controlled temperature. It is validated to a five-log reduction of Salmonella using parameters set by the microbiology department at UC Davis. A gentle step, and the reason we can sell a nut with nothing added to it.

There is one more reason walnuts are in this pack. Walnuts are the only tree nut that is an excellent source of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), the plant-based omega-3 essential fatty acid.

Terrasoul is a superfoods importer who documents the origin of every lot they handle. We work with them for the two nuts in our blend that cannot be grown in California, and we appreciate that they tell us where every batch is from rather than hiding it.

Our cashews come from Vietnam, widely regarded as the cashew capital of the world. Brazil nuts cannot be farmed at all. They are gathered by hand from old-growth Amazon rainforest by indigenous community cooperatives, from trees that depend on a specific orchid bee to pollinate them and a forest rodent to bury their seed. Every Brazil nut you have ever eaten was picked up off the forest floor.

Both arrive pasteurized, and every lot has a Letter of Continuing Guarantee on file. If you ever want to know where a specific bag's nuts came from, we have the paper trail.