A beautiful day of picking and picnicking! Thanks to all pickers, grinners and picnickers.
On Saturday June 26th we headed south to Swanton Berry Farm for our first U-Pick & Picnic of the summer. An olallieberry is a 20th-century cross between the loganberry and the youngberry (each of which is itself a cross between a blackberry and another berry).
The Olallieberry season is very short, and Swanton is the only certified organic farm that hosts olallieberry U-Picks. They will also have plenty of strawberries for you to pick. …

Slow Food Berkeley Tomato U-Pick at Mariquita Farms, an organic vegetable grower in Hollister, CA. Farmer Andy Griffin gave a seminar on local, organic farming and cooked up a mean Nardello pepper or fifty.