Holiday Planning Made Easy: We’re Here to Help!

New Bella Viva Orchards Natural Limes in Slices

We know…it may be hard to believe, but another holiday season is just around the corner. Major retailers have had holiday merchandise out for weeks now, and that tells us it’s time for all of us to push our own holiday planning into high gear. If you’re all set for your winter celebrations, merchandising and gift-giving, we applaud you. And just maybe you haven’t completed all the tasks on your to do list. No problem, we still applaud you and we can help!

You can make the holidays extra merry for those suppliers and associates on your corporate gift list by presenting them with our organic gift baskets, gift boxes, gift baskets or gift trays – from our beautiful California-centric collection. These hand-assembled gifts, ranging from $8 to $200 each, include your personalized gift messages and your company logo. Each gift is filled with fruits and nuts that are grown with attention to quality and flavor. We even have gifts that contain our chocolate-covered fruits and nuts for those with a sweet tooth, even if it’s healthier! And the extra good news? We are here and ready to save you time while keeping within your budget.

Talk with us and we will help you make choices to please anyone on your list. Just call us at (209) 883-9015 or email us at gifts@BellaViva.com and we will get you on your way with ease. Order by December 15th and we can deliver those gifts directly to you or we can send them to individual recipients on time. So make your list, check it twice, give us a call and we’ll make it nice!

You know we’re always looking for products to delight your consumers. We’re excited to share that we are launching a NEW product line: Natural Limes in slices, dices and powdered form! Imagine the fun, interesting and maybe nutritious ways you can get Natural Limes into your products. And while we’re talking about non-holiday-specific products, check out our Natural Pears! They’re back in stock in full inventory quantities.

While it may be time to plan for the holidays, we are here to help you with your everyday ordering needs. Email skooner@bellaviva.com, ssteele@bellaviva.comor sales@bellaviva.com if you wish to reorder or inquire on a new item to try. Whether you have case ordering needs or pallet orders we are here for you! Just call us at (800) 552-8218 or (855) 888-8482, (209) 883-4146, or complete our easy online form. We are here Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm PST.

As the holidays approach, we are mindful of how grateful we are for your business. From a personal AND business perspective, we thank you for enjoying Beautiful Fruits and a Beautiful Life!

November Gratitude: Giving Thanks for Our Bounty and Partnerships!

The days have arrived when we throw on our favorite sweaters at the end of the day, get a nice fire going and look back on this year with gratitude. This year has been filled with heart-warming gatherings with family and friends, watching our family grow, celebrating a bountiful growing season and providing you – our dear partners – a great array of California-grown fruits. We at Bella Viva Orchards are now looking ahead to the holidays. Can you believe it’s already time?

We are truly grateful for you, our partners, who propagate the message of “Beautiful Fruit. Beautiful Life.” through your food and beverage brands. Because you look for beautiful fruits to use in your creations, we are energized to continue providing solutions to help meet and exceed your needs.

Part of the way we express our gratitude to you is to bring out our best with every harvest. Now that we’re heading into the holiday season we invite you to give our “Bella Viva Old Fashioned” a try. This recipe comes to us from Dr. Gail S. of Mesa, Arizona, who has used our Certified Organic Dried Oranges and Certified Organic Dried Cherries with great creativity! With the holiday season ahead, think of how you might include these fruits in your own products.

Besides making a dangerous but good cocktail, they can be applied to your own business needs. Our snack-worthy vitamin C-packed Certified Organic Dried Oranges and our Certified Organic Dried Lemon Slices both make great garnishes for all kinds of beverages – adult or family-friendly.

Diced, these citrus products make phenomenal tea and baking additions. When used as packaged, they make amazing infusions for recovery beverages, sparkling teas, kombucha and other brews. And when diced, our Certified Organic Dried Cherries will shine in bakery, energy bars, granolas and oatmeal blends.

To make your holiday product development a little easier, now through the end of November, we invite you to enjoy 10 percent off our Certified Organic Dried Oranges and Certified Organic Dried Cherries.

After you return from a day of creating with the Bella Viva Orchards line, kick back in your favorite comfy sweater with that relaxing Old Fashioned! Share the gratitude and enjoy the savings, partners! Happy Thanksgiving to all our Bella Viva family of partners!!

Contact Us

sales@bellaviva.com or 1-800-552-8218 for information on our organic dried lemons, oranges and cherries

August Elation: Certified Organic Peaches Have Arrived!

The triple digit days of summer took their time to arrive this year, but when they did there was no question about it: We are in the middle of summertime! Since mid-July, we’ve been out in our orchards before the crack of dawn to harvest our prized Certified Organic Peaches. Yes, it’s hot and it’s hard work but it’s a total labor of love.

You may know that our Certified Organic Yellow Peaches are grown in an estate orchard that’s been in our family since 1987. We grow several varieties of Peaches but the relatively uncommon Angelus variety won our hearts over because of its unbelievable flavor, texture, aroma, sweetness and blushy-peachy hue. We say this Peach delivers!

As we harvest our Certified Organic Yellow Peaches we think of how quickly the time has gone by since our family has grown these sweet summer fruits.

Recently Victor got to reminiscing (If you’re short on time just scroll to the bottom for this month’s special):

“My obsession with Peaches started many decades ago. I was born in February and my parents took me to our family home in the middle of our Peach orchard. By August, they set me in a crate under the Peach trees while my mother, father and four older siblings tended to the harvest. Later in the day after the fruit had been picked they moved me in that Peach crate to the cutting shed where the freshly-picked fruits were cut in half, treated with a generous helping of sulfur dioxide and then laid out in the sun to dry. I was too young to know at that time, but at that time Peaches became a major part of my life.

“Fast forward to today, I’m still out in that orchard watching over the whole process, from tending to the trees to harvesting that fruit to drying our awesome Peaches. All my obsession with growing and drying the perfect Peach has led to many improvements and innovations over the decades. For years I was on a quest to find the perfect variety of Peach. After growing and removing dozens of varieties that Angelus variety made its way to the top of the list. It’s the perfect variety for eating and drying. Once I determined that the Angelus was my variety of choice I went to work on getting rid of all those nasty pesticides by becoming a certified organic grower. I believe that when it comes to thinking of my greatest Peach achievements, I’d say that I’m proud of developing and perfecting our proprietary process of drying Peaches without sulfur dioxide or any preservatives whatsoever while maintaining the fruit’s natural color, flavor and nutritional content.”

“I proudly invite you to bring our Certified Organic Yellow Peaches into your product lineup and see what I’m talking about!”

We hope that what Victor has shared entices you to bring our Certified Organic Yellow Peaches to your food or beverage program. To celebrate this quintessential summer fruit we’re offering you 10 percent off throughout the entire month of August!

So kick back at the end of your own hot day, put your feet up, dream of ways to incorporate our Certified Organic Peaches into your product offerings and soak in all the warm joy that summer has to offer, partners!

Contact Us

sales@bellaviva.com or 1-800-552-8218 for discounted pricing on Bella Viva Orchards’ own Certified Organic Dried Yellow Peaches