A Name That Means Water.

Capay Valley takes its name from the Patwin word for stream — the water that has defined this place for longer than memory. Along Cache Creek, in the oak-covered hills of the Coast Range, the Patwin people lived with this land for thousands of years, and their descendants, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, remain its original stewards. Any farm that works this soil today follows a long line of hands that knew it first.

Ground That Has Always Grown Things Worth Wanting.

By the 1860s, orchards and vineyards had taken root along the creek. A railroad arrived in the 1870s to carry the valley’s fruit to the wider world; the trains are gone, but the growing never stopped. Today the valley is a quiet stronghold of small family farms — organic vegetables, olives, almonds, wine grapes fine enough that Capay Valley earned its own appellation in 2003. It is the kind of ground, and the kind of neighbors, that hold a farm to a standard.

And Now, the Peony.

We are adding a new chapter to that lineage: rare peonies, planted root by root in the valley’s cool winters and grown slowly through its long golden summers. The varieties in our fields are among the most coveted in the world, and the valley gives them what they cannot be given anywhere else — this water, this soil, this patience. Wine has its appellations. We believe flowers deserve the same, and that this one begins here.