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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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The history of the Riley family in Oak Glen began when Dennis and Sharon Riley homesteaded their farm in 1978. It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.
Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.
Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."
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We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. 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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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$viewFile = '/var/www/vhosts/vcc_staging/app/View/Layouts/aarp_2023.ctp' $dataForView = array( 'content_for_layout' => '<div class="row twoColumnLayout"> <div class="col-md-8 left-rail"><div class="module clearfix"><div class="ar-basic-box"> <div class="module-spacer"> <header><h1 class="article-headline">Riley's Apple Farm</h1></header> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-6 left module-spacer"> <p> <div> <div>12201 South Oak Glen Road</div> <div> <span>Yucaipa</span>, <span>CA</span> <span>92399</span> </div> </div> </p> <div> <i class="fa fa-external-link-square"></i> <a href="http://www.rileysapplefarm.com/" target="_blank">Riley's Apple Farm</a> </div> <div><i class="fa fa-phone-square"></i> 909-797-4061</div> </div> <div class="col-sm-6 module-spacer"> <iframe width="100%" height="220" frameborder="0" style="border:0" src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed/v1/place?key=AIzaSyCU5aZylcrTOLke9e3U0F2mXovlZ4bL8yk&q=Riley%27s+Apple+Farm%2C+12201+South+Oak+Glen+Road%2C+Yucaipa%2C+CA+92399" allowfullscreen> </iframe> </div> </div> <div class="module-spacer clearfix"> <p>The history of the Riley family in Oak Glen began when Dennis and Sharon Riley homesteaded their farm in 1978. It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. 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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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$viewFile = '/var/www/vhosts/vcc_staging/app/View/Layouts/aarp_2023.ctp' $dataForView = array( 'content_for_layout' => '<div class="row twoColumnLayout"> <div class="col-md-8 left-rail"><div class="module clearfix"><div class="ar-basic-box"> <div class="module-spacer"> <header><h1 class="article-headline">Riley's Apple Farm</h1></header> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-6 left module-spacer"> <p> <div> <div>12201 South Oak Glen Road</div> <div> <span>Yucaipa</span>, <span>CA</span> <span>92399</span> </div> </div> </p> <div> <i class="fa fa-external-link-square"></i> <a href="http://www.rileysapplefarm.com/" target="_blank">Riley's Apple Farm</a> </div> <div><i class="fa fa-phone-square"></i> 909-797-4061</div> </div> <div class="col-sm-6 module-spacer"> <iframe width="100%" height="220" frameborder="0" style="border:0" src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed/v1/place?key=AIzaSyCU5aZylcrTOLke9e3U0F2mXovlZ4bL8yk&q=Riley%27s+Apple+Farm%2C+12201+South+Oak+Glen+Road%2C+Yucaipa%2C+CA+92399" allowfullscreen> </iframe> </div> </div> <div class="module-spacer clearfix"> <p>The history of the Riley family in Oak Glen began when Dennis and Sharon Riley homesteaded their farm in 1978. It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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$viewFile = '/var/www/vhosts/vcc_staging/app/View/Layouts/aarp_2023.ctp' $dataForView = array( 'content_for_layout' => '<div class="row twoColumnLayout"> <div class="col-md-8 left-rail"><div class="module clearfix"><div class="ar-basic-box"> <div class="module-spacer"> <header><h1 class="article-headline">Riley's Apple Farm</h1></header> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-6 left module-spacer"> <p> <div> <div>12201 South Oak Glen Road</div> <div> <span>Yucaipa</span>, <span>CA</span> <span>92399</span> </div> </div> </p> <div> <i class="fa fa-external-link-square"></i> <a href="http://www.rileysapplefarm.com/" target="_blank">Riley's Apple Farm</a> </div> <div><i class="fa fa-phone-square"></i> 909-797-4061</div> </div> <div class="col-sm-6 module-spacer"> <iframe width="100%" height="220" frameborder="0" style="border:0" src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed/v1/place?key=AIzaSyCU5aZylcrTOLke9e3U0F2mXovlZ4bL8yk&q=Riley%27s+Apple+Farm%2C+12201+South+Oak+Glen+Road%2C+Yucaipa%2C+CA+92399" allowfullscreen> </iframe> </div> </div> <div class="module-spacer clearfix"> <p>The history of the Riley family in Oak Glen began when Dennis and Sharon Riley homesteaded their farm in 1978. It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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It was a prime orchard parcel that Joe Wilshire had planted at the turn of the last century. Having passed muster with Joe's son Blackie, Dennis and his oldest son Devon began to work the orchards. Blackie showed how and where to draft water from the creek and flow it into irrigation furrows. He took pride in the style of pruning he had mastered over nearly a century that allowed for low hanging branches that could be easily harvested. Blackie kept that first year's crop; then we were on our own. After building our log cabin we had to decide what to do with thousands of bushels of apples. We didn't have to wait long for an answer.</p> <p>Sharon noticed that folks kept asking if they could pick the fresh fruit. Selling a crop wholesale required labor which ate up most of the profit. On the other hand, a U-Pick operation would solve the problem of picking, packaging and storing each year's crop. So, we opened the gates to the farm. We provided the bags and picking poles (along with a lesson in how to pick an apple without injuring the tree's spur wood and branches) and city folk, eager for a country outing and some fresh fruit, picked the entire crop - a fine partnership! Next, we unlimbered an old cider press and found that people were lining up to squeeze their own gallon of fresh-pressed cider. Then teachers asked if they could bring their students up for a tour. At night Dennis called square dances in our barn and played the banjo. It was all hands on deck.</p> <p>Devon, the oldest son, soon had a field of corn for shucking and boiling. He also had a pot of caramel for people to dunk their apples into. Middle son Thad helped at the cider press, and youngest son Tim played his harmonica and gave picking lessons. Sharon, who could remember all of our customer's names (well, mostly) booked tours and kept books. About ten years later, we realized that there was more demand than we could handle. A good problem... but what to do? Dennis arranged for the adjacent Wilshire properties to be purchased by his father, Ray Riley; and so it came about that there are so many Rileys in Oak Glen to choose from. Good luck. Nowadays, Devon has his own farm and runs Los Rios Rancho as well. Thad is a sergeant for San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and Tim has started his own business on the farm, "Riley's Stone Soup."</p> </div> <div class="reportthis" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <form method="post" action="/yucaipa-ca/report/place/rileys-apple-farm-yucaipa-ca.html"> <button type="submit" class="btn btnregister pull-right" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Flag This Place</button> </form> </div> <div class="report_button_message">Please use "Flag This Place" to alert us about content that is inappropriate or needs immediate attention. 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