Hello Aaron, contact Jon our administrator. The orchard is not open for the general public. Send Jon an email. I've been there twice and there is such great peace just being there walking around the orchard. It's a beautiful thing! Jon is a great guy. He's my pal, my friend and funny as all "GET-OUT".
Going there and talking to Howard, Bernard, and the other John is just great! They are a wealth of knowledge. I have a lot of notes that I take on each fig when I visit the orchard. Since I've been there, it has changed my view of figs in a totally different way! This is why I don't fight and bid online for those rare beauties that everyone wants on their wish list. What looks good to the naked eye in photos does not compare to a trip to eat and tasting real figs at UC Davis or visiting other fig nurseries around the USA.
Figs in Southern California taste so different from the same common figs on the east coast. Some folks don't know that. The fig wasp caprifies all figs in callie whether they're common figs or not. So, it's good to compare a caprified Brown Turkey to one that's not caprified in my back yard. The flavor and taste is like night and day! The Brown Turkey and Mission figs grow wild everywhere in California. And in Charlotte, people from Callie move here (Charlotte) wanting to grow BT figs thinking they will taste the same as back home in Callie and they do not. Today, I understand completely why Callie folks love the BT fig so much. Caprification makes the BT one hard fig to beat in flavor in taste IMHO. And on top of that....UCD has the BT and many others all in one huge orchard.