Sanford, our newest ranch, is in the foothills off Sanford Ranch Road. The first twenty acres were planted in 1999, with an additional ten acres in 2000, seven more in 2001, and the remainder in 2002. The ranch has good clay/gravelly soils which drain well. A forty-nine acre foot pond supplies water for overhead and drip irrigation, as welf as frost protection, The pond is recharged by two wells and rain runoff. This ranch is still in the process of being certified as organic.