Go into the Arcadia District in Scottsdale\Phoenix... Old grove (1940's I believe) citrus is on almost all properties... If you know some people in the area, you should have more than you could ever use if you offer to harvest and haul it away... if you do not know anyone, offer the service, and if you are lucky, people may let you pick and take it away for free, or even offer to pay you to pick the fruit and cart it off. Some do try to make a buck, but I see full bags for $1.00 each all of the time.

Unfortunately there is more grapefruit than anything else... if you find a small stand of oranges, stake it out... There is a good number of lemons too. I have a line on three orange trees... friends and family that let me have at it.

About the beginning of March or so, anything not used is usually mass picked by volunteer groups, loaded into huge palate boxes, and sat on the side of the road throughout the district, for a few days waiting to be carted off by forklifts and flatbeds... they do this to eliminate the citrus food source for roof rats (came over from S.E. Asia on cargo ships and are spreading across the U.S. in produce trucks) and other rodents.

It is take what you can use at that point before the fruit starts falling to the ground.

Ask people at work if they have trees... most will be happy to bring in garbage bags full and give it away to get rid of it.

Last year a late freeze hit hard though and it looks like the trees are not as productive this year as they have been in the past... I think they are still recovering.

The Queen Creek Olive Mill provides Arizona's only extra virgin olive oil, olive oil/canola blend, pure canola oil, imported vinegars, olives, and nuts for some of the Valley's top resorts and restaurants.

I have neer ever heard 1 thing good about Canada motor oil aka canola and when olive oil companies don't say they are selling first cold pressed Olive Oil, then they are selling cheap/toxic blends. It makes zero sense that a real olive orchard would cheapen the real product with blends.

If the label does not say it is first cold pressed, my theory is it is poison via being blended with trash.

MH

I love the taste of grapefruits. Oh course I love oranges and even better yet tangerines. I drank so much tonight. I don't strain my juice much so I drink it "chunky" as my girls call it. They like the pulp strained out.

To the person in AZ I bought it at Gilbert and Mckellips, I forgot the name of the stand. I guess they ship.

The cold snap in the winter hurt my orange tree. I hope my fruit is ok. It has some spots on the rinds, but so did the stuff I bought and the juice is sweet and good.