🥭 Delray Beach · South Florida
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
Fruit that was on a tree in this county last week.
Not shipped green from another hemisphere and gassed on the way. South Florida grows some of the best tropical fruit on earth for about eight months of the year, and most people here never taste it at its peak. That is the whole idea.
We ship anywhere. If it is not right when it lands, tell me and I fix it that day.
What's actually ripe, month by month
This is the part most fruit sellers will not show you, because it makes it obvious when they are selling something out of season.
| Fruit | Season here | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Mango | May – Oct | Peak is June and July. Dozens of varieties grow here and they taste nothing alike. |
| Longan | July – Aug | Short window. Some trees carry longer. |
| Mamey sapote | Apr – Oct | Sweet-potato-and-almond. Eat it soft, never firm. |
| Sapodilla | Feb – May, Sept – Nov | Two crops a year. The autumn one is starting now. |
| Lychee | mid-May – early July | The shortest season of the lot. Blink and it is gone. |
| Avocado (Florida) | summer into winter | Bigger and less oily than a Hass. Different fruit, really. |
| Carambola / starfruit | two crops, late summer & winter | Best eaten ripe off the tree, not shipped. |
| Guava, papaya, coconut | most of the year | The steady ones. Quality varies by grower, not by month. |
| Florida citrus | late autumn – spring | The winter half of the calendar. Worth waiting for. |
Seasons shift a few weeks either way with the weather, and a cold snap or a hurricane changes everything. NEEDS BOBBY — confirm this against what your growers are actually cutting, and we will keep it honest week to week.
Ethically sourced
A short phrase that has to mean something, or it is just decoration.
- We will tell you where it came from
- Which grove, which grower, which county. If we cannot tell you, we should not be selling it to you. NEEDS BOBBY — the list of growers, once you have it.
- Nothing gets wasted
- A lot of fruit in this county falls and rots because nobody collected it. Picking it and getting it to somebody who will eat it is the least complicated good thing in this business.
- Paid properly, every time
- Whoever picks it gets paid for it. No exceptions, and no long stories about when.
Giving back
Two things, and Bobby names the amounts.
🐢 The turtles
Palm Beach County is one of the busiest sea turtle nesting stretches on earth, and nesting season runs March to October — right through mango season, on the same beaches Bobby's family has guarded for two generations.
NEEDS BOBBY — which organisation, and how much. We are not inventing a charity or a percentage you have not chosen.
🤝 The neighbourhood
Fruit that does not sell should go to people, not a bin. NEEDS BOBBY — which pantry or church, and on what day.
If it arrives bad, you did not buy it
This is the only question that matters when a stranger ships you fruit, so it goes near the top instead of hidden in a policy page.
- Send one photo. That is the whole claim process.
- Open the box, and if anything in it is bruised, split, mouldy or turned, photograph it and text the picture. No form, no ticket number, no returning anything — you are not posting rotten fruit back to Florida.
- Refunded or replaced, your choice, same day
- You pick which. We do not argue about a mango, and we do not ask you to prove you did not do it.
- We pack for the journey, not for the photo
- Fruit is chosen for the day it will land, not the day it ships. Ripe fruit for a short trip, firmer fruit for a long one. NEEDS BOBBY — carrier, cut-off time, and which states are one-day.
Nobody who ships perishable food enjoys writing this paragraph. That is exactly why it is worth writing.
Wholesale & introductions
If you buy fruit for a business, or you grow it and need somewhere for it to go, this part is for you.
Two other things we sell
🍉 Carolina watermelonsDavid brings them down from North Carolina — the ones people back home queue for. NEEDS BOBBY & DAVID — season, price and how many fit in a run.How this works
Who you are buying from
Bobby Wootton. Delray Beach.
- He grew up on this water
- Bobby was a lifeguard, and his dad still is. When somebody has spent their life watching a beach, they tend to notice things other people walk past — including which trees on which streets are worth knowing about.
- He sold for years, in person
- Bobby worked the counter at one of the best herb shops in Delray. That is where he learned what this business actually runs on: knowing your product, telling people the truth about it, and being findable afterwards.
- You get his phone number, not a ticket system
- Text him. He answers. If something is wrong he sorts it out himself, because there is nobody else to pass it to.
🐢 About the turtles
Bobby is a turtle guy. Palm Beach County is one of the busiest sea turtle nesting stretches in the world, and nesting season runs right through mango season — March into October, on the same beaches he grew up guarding.
NEEDS BOBBY — he wanted something here that gives back to the turtles. We are not going to invent a number or name a charity he has not chosen. Tell us what you want it to be and we will put it up exactly as you say it.
Get told when it is ripe
Lychee season is about six weeks long. Most people miss it every single year without ever deciding to.
A message when your fruit comes into season. Nothing else, and no list-selling — ever. NEEDS SETUP — not connected yet.
The other half of this
Bobby picked that line at the top for a reason. This is a business about things that grow and people who go places, and those turn out to be the same people.
🗺️ The community mapTrips other people have actually taken — springs, trails, campsites, the parks worth the drive. Add yours, upload your photos, and it stays there.Open the map →
🌱 Plants & propagationGrowing a mango from seed takes years. Grafting from a tree that already fruits does not. We sell cuttings and starts, and we will show you how.
🚐 On the roadRV, camping, van, tent. What is worth carrying, what keeps, and which parks let you stay. Written by people who go, not by an agency.Reading
Hydroponics, travel, camping, the parks, and what is actually changing in growing food. Short, specific, and written before it was needed.
About the fruit itself
Where these came from, and what is actually in them. Written carefully — see the note at the bottom.
What you will never read on this site: that any fruit treats, prevents or cures anything. It does not, and saying so would be against the law as well as untrue. Fruit is food. It is nourishing, it tastes extraordinary when it is ripe and local, and that is the entire pitch.
Ready to order?
Text is fastest. Say what you want, or just say what you are in the mood for and let him pick.