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For a gift in good taste, or entertaining your family and friends during the holidays you can make any occasion a special time. We have been sending our gift baskets full of Medjool Dates, gourmet products, gourmet fruit & nut baskets for holiday gifts, fathers & mothers day gifts, and birthday surprises since 1953. You can depend on us to make your gift-giving and entertaining a pleasurable and meaningful as well as establishing a family tradition with our quality products for all your holiday gift needs.
Corporate Gifts
For over 50 years, we have served businesses during their holiday gift giving with personalized gift baskets & Corporate gifts. Our selection of corporate gift baskets, at any budget, our catalog of products range from knock your socks off fruit baskets and grand gourmet gift towers to sweet fruit & gourmet nuts..
We encourage our corporate customers to learn more about our program and holiday gift services, including corporate branding. Also note that while our website allows you to buy gift baskets online and ship to the continental U.S., corporate customers can arrange bulk shipments and custom delivery schedules as well. We have something to impress everyone's pallet with gourmet gifts and high quality personalized packaging. Let us show your clients a business gift in good taste
Our Customers matter most
Our family of customers can count on our dedication to their gift giving and gourmet food purchase to be of the highest caliber: Quality has no equal, quality of our service to our customers and quality of our products is what we measure our success upon. You can count on a gift in good taste from the Sphinx Date Ranch & Southwest Market since 1953.
Rick Heetland 1953-2005
We are sad to convey the loss of my father Rick Heetland in 2005, owner and operator of the Sphinx Date Ranch. During the 30 years running the Ranch, he took great pride in serving his customers with the best products and service possible. As Rick?s son, I have giant shoes to fill with his passing. With the knowledge and experience passed down to me from my parents Rick & Penny, I will do my best to meet our customer?s needs with the same caring and dedication Rick gave to his customers and employees. I guarantee the highest quality possible and am personally committed to your satisfaction. I welcome your comments and suggestions on products and service. We are constantly striving to make your overall experience enjoyable.
Sincerely,
Jason Heetland & Family
The Medjool Date Story
The date itself is probably man?s oldest cultivated fruit. Ancient writings depict date palms growing in Egypt in the fifth century B.C. Medjools were once the most prized dates in the whole Mediterranean area. Moors carried Medjool dates to Spain and they were especially prized there by Moorish royalty.
 Then for centuries after the Arab occupation, Spaniards sent carefully packed boxes of Medjool dates to friends as gifts. The Medjool would have been lost to the world had not Dr. Walter Swingle, a horticulturist with the US Department of Agriculture, made a trip to French Morocco, observed what he called ?the perfect date? and managed to bargain with a desert chieftain for eleven offshoots. These offshoots, sent to the U.S. in 1927, were the nucleus of all the present gardens here. The date gardens Dr. Swingle had observed were rapidly being destroyed by the Bayound Disease and it was very fortunate that the isolated area where Dr. Swingle?s purchase was made seemed to be disease free. The variety later all but disappeared in North Africa.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture took no chances and ordered the offshoots kept in quarantine in a remote area in southern Nevada for seven years. In 1935, nine surviving offshoots of the original shipment, plus sixty-four offshoots, which had grown up around them, were brought to the U.S. Date Garden in Indio, where they continued to multiply. In the late 1930?s they were ready for distribution to commercial growers.
Try our dried fruit snacks, dried fruit and gourmet nut gift baskets or chocolate covered Medjool Dates & Glaceed Apricots. Our dried fruit and Gourmet nut baskets make beautiful, healthy and delicious gifts for friends, relatives, co-workers and clients shipped from Arizona since 1951. |
