Peach farm movers and shakers - Good Fruit Grower

Peach farm movers and shakers - Good Fruit Grower

The Deniz family, cling peach growers in Oakdale, California, built their own shake-and-catch mechanical harvester, complete with leaf blowers, shown here during the 2024 harvest in July. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower) In 2016, Al, T.J. and Andy Deniz of Oakdale, California, planted their first cling peach orchard and set it up from the get-go for mechanical harvest, designing their own shake-and-catch system along the way.  The brothers, who…