Flying Disc Ranch
Thermal, CA (Coachella Valley), USA
flyingdiscranch.com ↗verification source ↗
Quality assessment
Caveats
FARMSHOP CLAIM IS DATED, NOT CURRENT-CONFIRMED: a Farmshop menu hosted on SinglePlatform (places.singleplatform.com/farmshop/menu, wayback-captured 2020-10-29) names 'flying disc ranch dates' on two dishes (Poached Chicken Salad, lunch and brunch versions). This IS a venue-menu artifact, not a journalist paraphrase -- SinglePlatform syndicates restaurant-submitted menus. However, Farmshop's CURRENT dated menus (Feb 2025 lunch/brunch PDFs, July 2024 dinner PDF, all on farmshopca.com) do NOT mention Flying Disc Ranch anywhere; only Drake Family Farm survives onto the current menus. Dates are also a seasonal item plausibly rotated on/off. Verdict on the venue claim is 'likely' (true as of ~2020, unconfirmed as current) rather than 'confirmed' -- see dedicated verdict file.
Permaculture date and citrus farm in Thermal, CA, founded 1979 by Robert Lower; sells at Southern California farmers markets (incl. Santa Monica) and via own site. Profiled by the New York Times (2010) and multiple farmers-market vendor directories.
Products
dates (13 varieties, incl. Barhi)citrus
Practices
permaculture
Served at
Sources
What the quality assessment above is built on.
- flyingdiscranch.com ↗
own site: current operation, location, products
- nytimes.com ↗
NYT profile of Flying Disc Ranch and founder Robert Lower, farmers-market presence
- web.archive.org ↗
wayback-archived Farmshop menu naming 'flying disc ranch dates' on two dishes -- the venue claim, dated ~2020
- farmshopca.com ↗
current (Feb 2025) Farmshop menu checked and found NOT to name Flying Disc Ranch -- currency caveat