Sun Ray Orchards

Our farm started in 1942 when Percival and his son Raymond Short bought 17 acres of land. Raymond and his family spent many years going to the Belville market. When Ray passed away his sons, Trevor and Larry, took over the farm. They wanted to grow the farm so they started buying neighbouring farms as they came up for sale and started wholesaling fruit to stores. Larry and Trevor continued wholesaling for twenty years but they missed being able to provide quality produce directly to their customer. One year they had a major hailstorm which damaged a lot of their crop and they did not have much fruit to sell to stores, this was the catalyse for our farmers’ markets.