Coral cherries ripe for picking and pie makingWe had family in town recently and decided to take a drive to Brentwood, California to pick some cherries.
The area around Brentwood is full of orchards and fields where strawberries, peaches, plums, apples, loquots, almonds, and every other kind of produce you can imagine is grown. Much of what is grown in the area ends up in stores across California but locals can also go and pick their own produce, which is what we did.
Once we had our eight, yes, eight pounds of cherries, we ate some fresh and then pitted the rest and froze them in 3 cup bags for making small pies and cobblers throughout the year.
With the eight, (coincidentally it seemed that eight was our magic number for the day) pounds of peaches, we ate some fresh, and we made a huge pie. We ate the peach pie warm, with vanilla ice cream... it was dreamy!
If you are from the San Francisco Bay Area or, if you are planning a visit to our area soon, check with the Harvest Time organization in Brentwood to see what is in season and perhaps plan your own visit to pick your own produce.
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