Organic Raw Almonds

It is important to us that our customers are very satisfied with our almonds. We devote an unbelievable amount of energy to that end. Therefore we want our customers to have a realistic understanding of what they can expect. Farming, processing, and marketing an organic product in a small family farm setting is very challenging. We are not a large multi-million dollar operation with fancy equipment and optical scanners, we rely on human eyes to sort our almonds. They are sorted and inspected by 8 sets of eyes and an optical electronic scanner before they reach you. In fact, in order to be legally allowed to offer unpasteurized almonds, we are required to do our own sorting. Organic farming may produce some imperfections.Despite best efforts, some level of insect activity is unavoidable, especially in organic farming where synthetic pesticides are not used. Unfortunately the sorting process is a big challenge, we do the best we can. It is possible to receive absolutely no flaws. It is also possible to receive some almonds with shelling machine blemishes, marks, spots, chips, or insect damage. We make every reasonable attempt to sort these out, but we are not perfect. The presence of a insect damage does not necessarily make the almond unsafe to eat. Smoked almonds may have uneven roasting and salt coverage. Almond butter may contain an occasional shell or hull piece. Bottom line, you can expect us to do our very best to provide a quality product from our family to yours.