Tanaka Farms: Orange County's Largest U-Pick Farm
Have you been to Tanaka Farms yet? If you haven’t, you’re missing out. It’s in Irvine and is also known as Orange County’s Largest U-Pick Farm. During certain tours you get to pick your own strawberries, watermelon, pumpkins and so much more. The experience is more fun than you can imagine.
At the end of the Strawberry Tour, you get to pick and take home a large basket of strawberries, which happens after eating as many as you can stuff down. Some say Tanaka Farms' strawberries are the best they’ve ever had, since they are amazingly sweet. The strawberry and watermelon tours last about an hour and certainly don't cost their worth.
While on the tractor ride that’s included with most tours, you'll get to try several seasonal vegetables along the way -- possibly radishes, carrots, sugar snap peas, green beans, iceberg and red leaf lettuce directly from the field. It’s all a treat! And when you’re done eating, you just toss the remains (carrot and radish tops, strawberry leaves, etc.) over your shoulder and off the tractor. Weekend Strawberry Tours are running now through June 27th (weather permitting) and the Watermelon Tours begin July 3rd, 2010. Tanaka Farms also offers Cookout Tours, whereas YOU get to pick, wash and cook your own meal directly from and at the farm. The view from the cookout area is beautiful too.
Family run Tanaka Farms is organized, friendly, fun, clean and pesticide free. They do a lot of creative planting to put forth the best produce possible and have a fresh produce stand that’s open daily. ALL is impressive.
* What to make with all the strawberries? Fresh Strawberry Buttercream Frosting Recipe
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