Mention Florida citrus, and most people automatically think of central Florida.

But did you know Jackson County was once known as the "Satsuma Orange Capital of the World," before bad weather wiped out the industry in the 1930's.

Some panhandle farmers are trying to revive citrus as a cash crop.

The Satsuma harvest season is over now.

All that's left are some lemon, navel orange and grapefruit trees.

Nolan Daniels has been working with two other farmers to try to bring the fruit back to Jackson County.

But he says the hard part isn't actually growing them.

"It’s that we're trying to educate people, especially the younger generation about what satsumas are."

Recent university research has enabled farmers to develop better methods of cultivating this historic fruit.

On extremely cold nights, Daniels uses a stand-by generator just to make sure he won't lose his crop.

"On those cold nights, I’m going to be there all night long and I’m going to be monitoring the temperature, making sure the water is still going, and then stay on until after daylight to the point where I can cut it off."

Even though they are still in the infancy stage, Daniels and his son have invested four years and 360 trees in this grove.

"In the early 1900s, Jackson County was known as the "satsuma capital of the world." even though weather freezes wiped out much of their business, farmers like Daniels say the cold weather can also help the satsumas too.

"The cold weather actually helps them in that it causes them to get ripe and sweeten a lot better than what they were doing in the warmer climate."

But he says they have to walk a fine line with it.

"If it gets cold enough, it's going to kill your plant...then you going to have to start over...and you talking about from the time you order those plants, they grow to root stock, to the budding...you're looking at a good 5-6 years."

And once the next harvest season comes, Daniels expects to spend another 60-70 hours a week harvesting, packing and selling the fruit.

During the peak, there were approximately 3,000 acres of satsumas in the Panhandle.