About Us
Welcome to GC Riley Company
We offer premium farm to table products, right here in the heart of the Ozarks!
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 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 blessed with and making it last for generations to come.
Education
Sharing beneficial knowledge with those who seek it.
Partnership
With schools, universities, and other programs, 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 produce the most delicious, high-quality fruit and fruit products. To process sustainably in our state-of-the-art operations and offer our customers the best in the industry.
At GC Riley & Co, we employ the newest agricultural technologies and techniques available to cultivate our products with the utmost care and thought for our environment, our community, and our customers. We believe our personal values can and will 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.