Wawona Frozen Foods

"The year was 1945 and Earl Smittcamp returned from the South Pacific, where he fought in WWII as a U.S. Marine. With the war ended and enthusiasm rising in the country, he and his wife, Muriel, bought a 200-acre farm the following year from her father. Located in California’s fertile San Joaquin Valley, the land boasted 40 acres of peaches. With an initial focus on peaches, Earl started a fresh fruit-packing operation. The farm would eventually become Wawona Ranch and grow into a fully integrated agricultural operation — led by Earl and his sons Bob and Bill – that included fruit farming, packing, frozen-foods production and food processing."