'Tis the sea-sun to enjoy long summer days and refreshing Limoneira® lemonade! As we plunge into June, we have a lot to look forward to: celebrating the Fathers in our lives and the beginning of summer! Join Limoneira as we share delicious recipes, fun facts, and exciting news about Limoneira promos and our sustainability efforts!

Get ready to pucker up and feel the summertime vibes with our groovy Catch the Citrus Wave™ campaign! The campaign is well underway and includes playful packaging capturing the essence of a day at the beach. It features colorful citrus characters for our lemons, limes, navels, and mandarins! Each bag also has an easy-to-scan QR code that will lead you to our Catch the Citrus Wave™ landing page, where you can find recipes, games, coloring activities, and sustainable farming. Or, visit CatchtheCitrusWave.com!

But wait, there's more! We're also running social media sweepstakes from now through August on our Instagram page (@LimoneiraCo), where followers can win fun prizes, including Stanley® cups and other beach-themed swag! Stay tuned for all the Catch the Citrus Wave™ fun all summer long!

"Sustainable land stewardship is at the core of our organization and has guided our farming practices for 130 years." - Harold Edwards, President and CEO of Limoneira.

Limoneira just released our annual Sustainability Report! The report highlights our strides in progressing on our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices. The report features our renewable energy improvements, our climate-smart agricultural practices, increased diversity on the Board of Directors, and charitable contributions. If you want to read the report for yourself, click here.

Limoneira works with Agromin to compost our green waste and turn it into mulch! Composting prevents greenhouse gas emissions that would be emitted if all our waste ended up in a landfill. Instead, we've created a complete cycle where we can apply the mulch to our orchards. Covering the ground with mulch prevents weeds from growing, reducing the need for herbicides. But this mulched compost is also rich with nutrients that help feed our trees, soils, and the rich biodiversity within. The mulch protects the soil from the wind to dramatically reduce erosion, helps the soil retain water, returns carbon to the soil, creates a habitat for helpful insects, and even helps to stabilize temperatures—keeping root systems warmer at night and cooler during the day. Ultimately, this practice of mulching allows us to take food scraps and yard waste, divert them from landfills, and return them to the soil to help grow more food. This is sustainability in its purest form!

Limoneira has partnered with Elizabeth Williams this summer. Elizabeth has harnessed the power of the humble lemon as she has gone from selling at a lemonade stand to a converted trailer in order to pay for her undergraduate degree and pharmacy school! And she makes one delicious lemonade!

Check out her Classic Limoneira® Lemonade:

Muddle lemon slices with sugar. Add ice and water. Shake and enjoy!

To follow Elizabeth and her lemonade trailer, check out her Instagram account: @squeeze.es!

At Limoneira, we value our team members and want to take a moment to recognize their legacy! Japanese Americans formed a big part of our team in the 20th century. We love looking back at pictures of Limoneira of old. Here we have a group of Japanese workers in the Limoneira packing shed.

Sun's out, bugs out! As summer begins, the warm weather brings mosquitos and other bugs. To repel the bugs away, try a combination of garlic and lemon! Using unscented baby oil, soak garlic cloves overnight, add the juice of 2 Limoneira® lemons, and apply on all areas where needed. Don't forget to keep away from where pets or small children could eat it!

Father's Day all around the world is celebrated uniquely and often on different days of the year. Here in America (as well as in 84 other countries, including Canada and the United Kingdom), Father's Day is celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of June. We celebrate with gifts for the father figures in our lives and a nice bbq!

In Thailand, Father's Day is celebrated on the birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyade, on December 5^th. Everyone wears yellow, the official color of the day, and children present their fathers with a canna lily flower. In Japan, children also give their dads flowers, homemade beer glasses, or a box of Japanese sweets. Father's Day is celebrated in Mexico with meals and gifts, and in Mexico City, a 21-kilometer race is held in the Bosque de Tlalpan on that day. In Brazil, Father's Day is celebrated on the day of St. Joachim, the patron saint of fathers, on the second Sunday in August, with huge feasts and barbecues to celebrate the day. In India, Father's Day is used to express gratitude and love for fathers across the country. Children give cards and flowers to their dads and celebrate with dinners and cultural programs.

No matter how or when you celebrate, Limoneira wishes all the fathers and father figures a wonderful Father's Day!

source: www.hayesandjarvis.co.uk

This month's winner is Jeremy Doubrava from Los Angeles, CA! Congratulations Jeremy! Thank you all for keeping up with Limoneira's latest every month. Tune in next month to see if YOU are the winner!

And don't forget - The ZEST IS YET TO COME!