We are a small family farm growing seven varieties of certified organic dates in the Coachella Valley community of Mecca, California, near the Salton Sea.
October 1, 2025 — See our Farmers Market schedule, including a newly added Santa Monica market every other Saturday.
September 12, 2025 — Gillian Ferguson of KCRW's Good Food spoke to Alvaro Bautista about the seven months of care that goes into each year's date crop, his favorite varieties, and customers' joy at clipping a strand of the early-season star, Barhi. Then, Gillian talked to Redbird pastry chef Ligia Rossi, who features Bautista Family Medjools in her sticky toffee pudding. Listen to the podcast or read an abridged writeup at "Alvaro Bautista Grows His Dream Dates," and don't miss Gillian's longer feature and Instagram vid at "Where to Find the Best Dates in Southern California." Good Food also covered the Ranch in 2023 and 2024.
September 2025 — The Furrow magazine featured the Bautista Family Organic Date Ranch in their Sept/Oct and Summer 2025 issues. "The Perfect Date" can be read at the magazine's website.
September 9, 2025 — The shop is now open for shipping in the USA and to Canada!
May 25, 2025 — Sold out! The webshop will reopen in September.
April 9, 2024 — Today marks the release of My Life in Recipes, a treasury of recipes and stories from Joan Nathan, the James Beard award-winning author and New York Times contributor. Joan learned of Bautista Family through her daughter Daniela, who had purchased dates at her local Los Angeles farmers market, and together they visited the Ranch during Covid. In My Life in Recipes, Joan shares the Bautista story and her impressions of the full-circle lifestyle on the Ranch, where she realized "the world will be a better place." The book also includes a recipe for Orange Cream Cheese Butter Cookies Stuffed with Dates and Walnuts, which Joan adapted from a recipe given to Alicia by a Bautista Dates customer.
February 17, 2024 — In the final days of the growing season last August and September, the Coachella Valley was hit with two major storms that drastically reduced the harvest, causing a very early sell-out. The next crop will be available in September 2024.
October 7, 2021 — The LA Times featured the Bautista Family Organic Date Ranch as part of a series of articles and recipes about Coachella Valley dates. The Ranch was also covered by Civil Eats.