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Oak Glen, California
October 18, 2001

Dear Friends & Family,

We have lots of pumpkins this week, as the pictures at the right will attest.   Get up here and grab them!   The general store (909-797-9108) can give you details on pricing and hours.   Email Scott Riley for pumpkin, apple, and cider information.

Hey--do you like, hate, love, or feel just lukewarm about Riley's Farm and its crazy inhabitants?    Let us know what you think by signing our guest book.  We are just American enough to admit our blatant capitalism, and we want to know what you think of, and want from, us.  

Thanks again.   Hope to see you soon,

    Your Humble Servant,

James Riley,





Part of the Revolutionary  War School Field Trip staff, takes a break before the arrival of 140 guests yesterday.


The Pumpkin Field -- October 8, 2001  

P.S. For the sake of those "web portals" constantly browsing the internet to update their search engines, we include the following boiler-plate. (Feel free to read this, if you're new to our site.)

Riley's Farm is a working apple orchard and living history farm in the Oak Glen area of Southern California. In addition to farming, we love history and we have provided a venue for re-enactment units comprising many different eras. The farm regularly hosts banquets, birthday parties, weddings, and office parties. Every year, literally thousands of students participate in one of our school tours, where they experience everything from weaving, candle-dipping, and cider pressing to the drill and muster of a Revolutionary War or Civil War battle. Our farm has appeared on the History Channel and in the recently released feature film, Amistad, as well as many other film and television productions. (We even try to get the producers to include us as on screen talent, but that's another story.) On selected weekends throughout the year, we offer "farm-stay" weekends, where families can experience--clothing, wood stoves, muskets, and all--the life of an 18th or 19th century American farmer. We grow sweet corn, apples, raspberries, pears, and sunflowers, just to mention a few of our crops. Our nephew, Devon, keeps some beautiful Belgian draft horses for country hay-rides. We love America--its traditions, its people, its history, and its cherished heritage of liberty in Christ. Have we said enough? Well, one more thing: In the fall, thousands of families make an annual pilgrimage to the farms of Oak Glen to experience the closest thing to a New England fall California has to offer. Why don't you stop by and say hello?

P.S.  Stay Clear of this "Cider House"

The hills by the Corn Patch

Contacting us via e-mail at: info@rileysfarm.com.

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Riley's Farm
12261 S. Oak Glen Road
Oak Glen, California 92399

(909) 797-7534



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