The Fig Hunter

The Fig Hunter We are a specialty fig nursery and arboretum we offer gourmet fresh figs, fig cuttings, and fig trees

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🌱 SOMETIMES I NEED A REMINDER OF MY WHY.It’s 5:30 in the morning. I just got off work, and I’m exhausted, stumbling down...
09/30/2026

🌱 SOMETIMES I NEED A REMINDER OF MY WHY.

It’s 5:30 in the morning. I just got off work, and I’m exhausted, stumbling down the quarter-mile hill to the parking lot. Going down after a shift is always easier than walking up to start one.

My right hip is bothering me. I’m feeling my age. I’m getting out of my work gear and ready to climb into the car when a gentleman parked next to me asks, “Hey, do you sell figs?”

At first, I just nodded yes. It had been a long night.

Then I caught myself. These conversations are part of my why.

So I walked over and introduced myself.

He lives in Santa Rosa, recently joined the Boilermakers union, and just started growing figs—a Brown Turkey and a Kadota. He was looking for more varieties.

As luck would have it, Priscilla brought me some trees to give away this past weekend. I had a TFH-65 Sisters in the car, so I pulled it out and gave it to him.

We got to talking about California Rare Fruit Growers and the OC chapter. As a chapter chair, I always keep a few magazines in the car to share. The one I handed him happened to be last month’s issue—the one I’m in, talking about biochar, figs, and soil.

We talked a little longer about growing food and having something to do with our families after a long day at work. He’s a father with a large family and another baby on the way.

To the gentleman who stopped and asked about figs this morning: thank you. You probably didn’t realize how much I needed that conversation.

Working these long hours away from home, sometimes I lose sight of my why. I love growing food, sharing it with others, and helping somebody get started.

This morning, that meant a conversation in a parking lot, a magazine, and a fig tree headed home to another family. 🌱

🇺🇸 RIDE TO SUPPORT OUR VETERANS AND MILITARY FAMILIES 🇺🇸The Iron Soldier Ride was started by the Northern California Vet...
09/24/2026

🇺🇸 RIDE TO SUPPORT OUR VETERANS AND MILITARY FAMILIES 🇺🇸

The Iron Soldier Ride was started by the Northern California Veterans Museum and Homeward Bound Military Family Support Services to support local post-9/11 veterans and military families across five Northern California counties.

This is Homeward Bound’s biggest charity fundraiser of the year. Funds raised help stock an emergency food pantry, respond to urgent needs in our local veteran community, and cover shipping for Christmas For The Troops, which sends hundreds of care packages to deployed military personnel around the world each year.

Through Homeward Bound, this one motorcycle ride helps support services reaching thousands of individuals annually.

Many in our motorcycle community are veterans themselves. This ride brings people together with a shared purpose: taking care of those who have served and the families who stand beside them.

🏍️ All bikes. All riders. Everyone welcome!

📅 October 3, 2026
📍 Northern California Veterans Museum & Heritage Center
2168 Twin View Blvd., Redding, CA 96003
🕗 Registration begins at 8:00 AM
🇺🇸 Kickstands up at 9:30 AM
🎟️ $40 preregistration | $45 day of registration

Register at www.norcalveteransmuseum.org⁠
📞 For more information, call 530-859-3176.

Every registration helps keep these programs
going. If you can’t ride, please share and help spread the word!
Northern California Veterans Museum & Heritage Center

🎉 SOMETHING FIGGIN’ EXCITING IS COMING TO THE BAY! 🎉📣 SAN FRANCISCO, OAKLAND & ALL OF NORCAL—join The Fig Hunter & The F...
09/10/2026

🎉 SOMETHING FIGGIN’ EXCITING IS COMING TO THE BAY! 🎉


📣 SAN FRANCISCO, OAKLAND & ALL OF NORCAL—join The Fig Hunter & The Figlets this Saturday at Planting Justice in Oakland for a FREE FIG TASTING! 🌳

If you’ve never had the opportunity to taste fresh figs, this is your opportunity! Come on out, join us, and discover just how exciting figs can be! 🙌

📅 Saturday, September 12
📍 Planting Justice — Oakland
🕙 Tasting starts at 10 AM

Here’s what we have planned:

🕙 10:00 AM — Fig tasting!
🗣️ 10:30 AM — Our story: Get to know The Fig Hunter and how this adventure started.
🌱 11:00 AM — Biochar: Discussing its benefits.
🍽️ 11:30 AM — Cooking with figs!
🌳 12:00 PM — Grafting figs: We’ll have scions of our rare figs available to graft onto the fig plants you purchase.

Bring your curiosity, bring a friend, and come spend some time with us! 💚

👇 Tag somebody who needs to come taste figs with you!

🌳🍪 COME SIP, STROLL, SHOP—AND TASTE SOME INCREDIBLE FIGS! 🍪🌳Today, The Fig Hunter and The Figlets are heading to Durham,...
09/05/2026

🌳🍪 COME SIP, STROLL, SHOP—AND TASTE SOME INCREDIBLE FIGS! 🍪🌳

Today, The Fig Hunter and The Figlets are heading to Durham, California, for the Sip & Stroll at Hodge’s Family Nursery, alongside The Wyld Flour!

9681 Midway
Durham, CA 95938
United States

Hodge’s is a beautiful, family-owned nursery that has served the North State for more than 40 years. It sits on five acres filled with fruit trees, citrus, shade trees, roses, perennials, shrubs, and plenty more to explore.

Come hang out, walk through the nursery, enjoy something delicious from The Wyld Flour, shop, learn, taste, and spend part of your Saturday with us!

🍈 FREE FIG TASTINGS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FIG HUNTER

🔥 You’ll even have the opportunity to taste our world-famous TFH-455 — Amen’s Citron!

This is one of our signature figs and a longtime Burke family favorite. It is an exceptionally large, juicy fig with fruity sweetness and citrus notes that become stronger as you get closer to the eye.

🕙 10:00 AM — Community Fig Tasting
Generously sponsored by Maywood Farms 🌱

🐍 RATTLESNAKE PSA — SOMETIMES THINGS HIT HOMEWe’ve been on the Flying E for close to 11 years, and in all that time ratt...
08/29/2026

🐍 RATTLESNAKE PSA — SOMETIMES THINGS HIT HOME

We’ve been on the Flying E for close to 11 years, and in all that time rattlesnakes around the house have never really been an issue.

Now we’ve had two show up right in our backyard.

And this time it hit home.

Brazer appears to have tangled with one while defending his Fig Trees. Thankfully, Priscilla got him to the vet this morning. He was treated, the swelling has stabilized, and he’s home and on the mend. ❤️🐶

We love the biodiversity of this property and understand that wildlife comes with living where we do.

But there also has to be a line.

Our backyard is where the Figlets run and the dogs play, and alongside it is the new side yard we’re developing for friends, family and community to gather.

We spoke with local wildlife professionals today and have a tentative appointment next Friday to help us problem-solve the Ranch — not to eliminate wildlife, but to create a safer buffer around the places our family and animals use.

So this is simply a reminder to our friends and neighbors:

Pay attention right now.

Watch your kids and pets. Look before reaching around wood piles, rocks, sheds, irrigation equipment or heavy vegetation. And don’t assume that because you haven’t seen a rattlesnake before, they aren’t there.

After almost 11 years, we certainly got that reminder today.

Stay safe, Fig Family. 🐍🌱

And send Brazer some love.

If you can’t, he’ll take ripe figs. ❤️😂

08/29/2026


Hey fig family wanted to share that our very own Priscilla Ann is running for a school board spot Burke for Red Bluff Elementary School District Trustee please take a moment to read the thoughts and send some Fig Love to her .

A little personal news from The Fig Hunter… 🌱After a lot of thought and conversations with my family, I’ve decided to ru...
08/28/2026


A little personal news from The Fig Hunter… 🌱

After a lot of thought and conversations with my family, I’ve decided to run for the Red Bluff Union Elementary School District Board of Trustees.

For years, The Fig Hunter has been about more than finding figs. It’s been about agriculture, education, community, making connections, and sharing something today that might grow into something much bigger tomorrow.

As a father raising three daughters in this community, I believe it’s time for me to step up and serve in another way.

Don’t worry—The Fig Hunter isn’t becoming a political page. There will still be plenty of figs, fruit, farming, and adventures around here. 😂

I just wanted my Fig Family to hear the news from me:

I’m running for school board. 🌱

Plant a seed. Encourage hope.

08/26/2026

FINISHED… FOR NOW

This area started as a severe incline. It isn’t completely finished—because around here, I always seem to come back and add something—but it is finished for now.

We started by drilling deep holes with a gas-powered auger. Then we drove hot-dipped galvanized steel I-beams into the holes using the excavator bucket and secured them with concrete.

Every one of those I-beams was salvaged from a solar-farm project. They were headed for the dumpster, but we knew they still had plenty of life left in them.

Next, we stacked recycled 4-by-12 pressure-treated timbers between the steel beams. Those timbers came from a dock project I worked on back in 2017, where they also would have ended up in the landfill.

As we stacked them, I made sure the spacing was right, drilled through the timbers and installed lag bolts to secure everything in place.

We then turned the corner and repeated the process for the next section. To create the opening for the steps, we welded one I-beam onto another, embedded it in the ground and secured it with concrete—giving it strength from both the weld and the foundation.

In the end, we transformed part of a steep, unused hillside into a level sitting area beneath the shade of the existing oak branches. There is now enough room for a small round table and two chairs, overlooking the western mountains and my favorite view on the entire Flying E.

Well…my favorite view other than looking at my wife. ❤️

Even though this kind of work is what I do professionally as a union pile driver, I genuinely had fun building this. Taking discarded materials, putting my skills to work and creating a place where our family can sit together and watch the sunset makes me proud.

Every time I look at how it turned out, it makes me smile.

It may be finished for now—but, like everything else at the Flying E, it will keep growing.

♻️ Reclaimed materials
🛠️ Union-built
🌄 Made for the view
❤️ Built for the family

🍈 FRESH FIGS RESTOCKED THIS MORNING!We just dropped off a fresh supply of fig tasting packs at A&R Custom Meats in Red B...
08/13/2026


🍈 FRESH FIGS RESTOCKED THIS MORNING!

We just dropped off a fresh supply of fig tasting packs at A&R Custom Meats in Red Bluff, California.

Each pack features a rotating selection of unique figs grown right here in Red Bluff—and some packs may include one of our signature varieties:

TFH-455 Amens Citron, one of Priscilla’s favorite figs. 💜

These won’t last long, so if you want fresh figs, hurry down to A&R before they’re gone!

Need more than a tasting pack? Bulk orders are also available.

📍 A&R Custom Meats
Red Bluff, California

Every pack is different. Every fig has a story.
A & R Custom Butchering, Retail Meats & Deli
Burke Family Farms
Fig Fest on the River by The Fig Hunter

🍷 THE FIG FLIGHT: WOULD YOU TRAVEL TO TASTE IT?Fig lovers—we want your honest opinion!Would you travel to Red Bluff for ...
08/10/2026

🍷 THE FIG FLIGHT: WOULD YOU TRAVEL TO TASTE IT?


Fig lovers—we want your honest opinion!

Would you travel to Red Bluff for a seasonal Fig Flight featuring several fresh fig varieties, each with its own color, texture and flavor?

Taste each fig plain first, then experiment with local honey, fig balsamic, sweet chili, flaky sea salt and possibly chèvre. Add the right local w**e pairing, and it could become a truly unique Northern California agritourism experience.

Would you order it? How far would you travel to try it—and who would you bring with you?

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Red Bluff, CA

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+15305289330

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