checked in early and they took me. staff was friendly and had a good sense of humor of my witty comments. had 3 dock doors i had to goto to get loaded.

Very nice people,great experience delivering a load,highly recommended for doing business

Florida's Natural Growers was founded in 1933 as Florida Citrus Canners Cooperative in Lake Wales, Florida. It was created to provide the canning of juice and grapefruit sections for its members. In 1938 automatic machines for extracting juice were added. During WWII Florida's Natural Growers produced concentrated orange juice for the military. This new form of offering juice proved popular after the war and 80 percent of juice production shifted to concentrate. By the 1960's the public taste shifted to ready to drink juice and the current name, Florida's Natural Growers was adopted. In 1987 they launched the Florida's Natural Brand offering premium juice and drinks. 2004 was a difficult year for Florida's Natural Growers as they suffered heavy losses of their groves due to hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Jeanne. 2005 saw the surviving groves attacked by citrus greening, a blight that destroys orange trees. 2010 saw the planting of more lemon trees and the development of seven new flavors of lemonade. By 2022 the co-op had only 30 percent of the orange groves they did ten years ago. 2023 marked Florida Natural Growers 90th anniversary. Today they sell orange juice across the country and in 51 countries around the world. The cooperative is currently made up of 12 representatives of 14 citrus cooperatives: Waverly Growers Cooperative, Lake Placid Cooperative, Ben Hill Griffin Inc., Haines City Citrus Growers Association, Orange Growers Marketing Association, Lake Wales Citrus Growers Association, Hunt Brothers Cooperative, Citrus Marketing Services Inc, Peace River Packing Company, Dundee Citrus Growers Association, Winter Haven Citrus Growers Association, and Umatilla Citrus Growers Association, Southern Gardens Citrus Growers, and Lykes. For many years they were the only orange juice makers to solely use oranges that were grown in Florida. In May of 2022 the added oranges grown in Mexico to their concentrates. In2001 Florida's Natural Growers added a Grove House for public education across the street from the plant. The Grove House opens in October until May and sells home decor, folk art, jewelry and citrus scented beauty products, All merchandise is citrus themed. You can also enjoy juice samples and take a self guided tour of the orange groves. I like how Florida's Natural Growers is farmer owned opposed to corporate like other orange juice brands like Simply Orange and Minute Maid which are owned by Coca-Cola. Generations of families have been growing the oranges that go into Florida's Natural juices. I have always enjoyed Florida's Natural but I didn't realize until now that they were farm to table. I didn't know the headquarters were in Lake Wales until I passed by and now and I look forward to coming back in the fall for a proper tour.

Easy In. And out process all trucks report to shipping receiving office which is off-site across the road just past convenient store once checked in then you go across street to actual plant to load unload that's when I had to play the work me in because I was late game but I wasn't dispatched for the load until after the appt. Time but always we are punished for none of our own doings.

To be something free to do this was a fun stop ,on are road trip. they had a cute little gift shop to. With free samples of their Orange juices.

Checked in at the staging area, everyone from the security guard to the office staff were professional and friendly. They had me drop off the empty trailer down the road from the plant entrance then bobtail back to the staging area for my preloaded trailer. Very good experience here.

I had visited with my father since he was getting his tools but I stayed in my dad's truck since I don't work here but it was nice seeing where my dad currently works. The products from this company are once of the best here in Florida.

Everyone experience is different but fortunately for me it wasn’t bad at all. 9am appointment and received a door by 9:04am and was loaded 1 hour later.