Southern Gardens Citrus

U.S. Sugar's citrus subsidiary

Founded

1994

Evidence class

publicly verified operating

Place

Hendry County

District

The Glades

Status as of 12 September 2026

Operating groves, a nursery and juice storage; the plant no longer processes fruit.

Connections

3 edges, 3 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.025 (rank 55 of 243) · location and lineage only 0.027 (rank 24) · outside share 0.33

Confidence

High · sources: [CIM19] [USSH] [FNG] [APHIS] (register)

U.S. Sugar founds Southern Gardens in 1994 and the operation grows past 32,000 acres; at peak the Hendry County plant processes up to 20 million boxes a year [CIM19][USSH]. It announces the end of processing on 10 September 2019, citing greening, Hurricane Irma losses and imports, and remains a Florida's Natural member and a USDA permitted researcher of engineered greening countermeasures [CIM19][FNG][APHIS].

Connections

Location and lineage

• unit or member ofCitrus World, Florida's Natural Growerslisted grower member from southern Hendry Countyongoing
• grew out ofU.S. Sugar Corporationthe citrus subsidiary in Hendry County1994 to present

Support

• supported byCitrus greening reaches Floridaamong the stated reasons processing ceased2019