A small farm under old mango trees.
Close enough to the airport to be improbable, and quiet enough that you forget it.
Baja California Sur is dry country. Almost everything eaten in Los Cabos arrives from somewhere else.
Most of it comes up the peninsula, across the water, or from further away than that. By the time it reaches a kitchen here it has been travelling for days.
Orchard started from a simple objection to that. There is a stand of eighty-year-old mango trees on the edge of San José del Cabo, and underneath them the air moves and the ground stays in shade. It is a good place to keep birds. So we do.
Twenty minutes, most weeks.
We hold the one input that matters.
We raise laying hens and poultry outdoors under those trees, and we formulate and mill our own feed on the farm rather than buying it in — corn, wheat bran, soybean meal and scratch grains, with ginger, turmeric, garlic, onion and oregano. It is the one input that changes everything downstream, so we would rather control it. No hormones are added, and nothing artificial goes into the mix.
Eggs are collected by hand every morning, sorted, packed and delivered across Los Cabos by us. The shells come out brown, cream, freckled and pale blue-green depending on the bird. We do not sort that out. It is the most honest thing about the product.
We took it off the site.
This website used to describe Orchard as organic. We do not hold organic certification, and using the word without it is a claim we cannot stand behind — so we replaced it with the things we can: where the birds live, what they eat, who makes their feed, and how quickly the eggs reach you.
If those things matter to you, all of them are verifiable. You can come and check.
Most people here have never seen a laying hen.
Not the children, and mostly not the adults either. We started running visits because people kept asking, and it turned into one of the more worthwhile things the farm does — school groups, families, birthday mornings, chefs who want to see the flock before they buy from it.
A farm you can walk onto is a different kind of supplier. It is harder to run that way, and it is the whole point.
- Where
- the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur
- What we raise
- Laying hens, broilers and ornamental breeds
- Feed
- Formulated and milled on the farm
- We serve
- Households, hotels, restaurants, villas and private chefs across Los Cabos
- Open to visitors
- Families and school groups, by appointment
Order, visit, or put us on your menu.
WhatsApp reaches the farm fastest — we answer there first.