About Us

Welcome to GC Riley Company

We offer premium fruits right here in the heart of the Ozarks as well as exotic varieties sourced from family farms all over the world.

It all started with a passion for growing and sourcing fruit rarely seen and included in diets. My name is Colton Drollinger, and I was attending Missouri State University when I came across a plant called Passion Fruit. It was intriguing and caught my eye, so I told my father Greg about it, and that got the wheels of the vision turning. We wanted to offer a product people in our area don’t see very often and educate them on it, and extend that across the U.S.

We put our ideas to work and broke ground in 2019, erecting our first greenhouse and filling it with Pitahaya plants, utilizing a practice known as “confinement growing.” This is placing a product in an enclosed environment, usually with higher density, and controlling every aspect of that environment to increase quality, productivity, and yields. We applied these methods to growing our very own exotic fruits.

Since completing our first greenhouse, we have been committed to growing the highest quality fresh fruits and offering them directly to consumers to obtain an experience they’ve never had before. Our every effort is geared towards making sure our products are grown with the utmost care in our state-of-the-art facilities. GC Riley & Company cares about what we do and what our customers consume.

Our Values

At GC Riley & Company, we hold our core values close to our hearts, and everything we source or produce is a direct extension of these values. You will taste the difference.

Family

Values held within our personal lives, extended to our professional life.

Customers First

Servanthood, placing our customers before ourselves.

Quality

Never cutting corners to ensure only our best is offered.

Environment

Being good stewards of the land we are given and making it last for generations to come.

Education

Sharing beneficial knowledge with those who seek it.

Partnership

Whether with schools, or our partner farms, we strive for a unity that helps others.

Integrity

Honesty, and upholding our values at all times, not just convenient times.

Our Mission

GC Riley & Co is a family business founded and growing in the heart of the Missouri Ozarks.

We are a family business founded and growing in the heart of the Missouri Ozarks. Our mission is to grow and source the highest quality and the most delicious exotic fruits. Grow sustainably in our state-of-the-art operations, source from our partner farms around the world, and offer them to US consumers year-round.

At GC Riley & Co, we employ the newest agricultural technologies and techniques available to cultivate our fruit with the utmost care and thought for our environment, our community, and our customers. We believe our personal values can extend to how we operate our business. We will treat our employees and our customers, with the integrity and compassion that we uphold in our own family.