De Jong Farm

De Jong Farm

De Jong Farm operates from Hanford in Kings County, the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley, where the De Jong family has been rooted in agriculture for multiple generations. The wealth originates from large-scale row-crop and orchard operations built over decades, rather than a single corporate exit. The family's holdings represent a classic Central Valley agricultural dynasty — land-rich, private, and structured around the permanent ownership of irrigated farmland. The agricultural portfolio spans commodity crops, permanent tree-nut plantings, and associated processing infrastructure. The family office acquires additional farmland in California's Central Valley, with a focus on properties that can be integrated into existing operations or improved through water-rights optimization. The De Jongs are known to evaluate agricultural real estate, water assets, and occasionally cold-storage or packing-facility investments that complement their core farming business. Their geographic footprint concentrates on Kings, Tulare, and Fresno counties, with some activity extending into Kern County. The De Jong family's operational scale places it among the largest private farming entities in Kings County, though the family does not disclose professional headcount or total deployment. The office does not appear to operate adjacent venture-capital or private-equity vehicles, nor participate in institutional club-deal networks — distinguishing it from the coastal family offices that allocate across asset classes. Its wealth-management posture is inseparable from the farming operation: cash flows from crop sales fund further land acquisition and capital improvements. What structurally differentiates De Jong Farm from a generic farming business is its multi-generational tilt toward permanent land ownership as a store of value, rather than maximizing short-term returns through leasing or corporate consolidation. The family's control over both the operating entity and the underlying real estate creates a double-layer compounding engine — operating profit plus land appreciation — with no external LP pressure, no fundraising cycles, and no mandate to diversify beyond the soil the family has known for more than a century.