Tanaka Farms: Visit #4

So today I took the kids on our annual trip to Tanaka Farms with my moms’ group. This was the first time that n went on the tour and ate strawberries with us, though.

Although the tour has remained essentially the same all four years, there are little changes. For instance, they now have the saying, “Bottoms on Benches!” when the wagon is moving. I think that is a new one. Also, I learned that only two ears of corn grow per stalk. Interesting.

Cornfield

The farm rotates their crops so as to not deplete the soil. So, where we picked strawberries last year, they are now growing cabbage:

The tour guides must eat a lot of vegetables!

k wasn’t too keen on eating the celery, bok choy, and green onion that they offered along the way. She did, however, enjoy the carrot.

But, of course, we were all looking forward to the main attraction: the strawberries!

I’m not sure if this is true, but the strawberry field that they let us loose on for 15 minutes of all you can eat strawberries seemed a little more “picked over” than in years past. I think these tours are getting a lot more popular. There were still plenty to eat, though, and all three of us certainly got our fill. This was the first year that k picked her own strawberries (I still took off the stems for her, though).

Strawberry mouth!

After all that healthy eating we went to Chick-fil-a for dinner to redeem our coupons. Peach shake…yum! Yes, that is n wearing a UCLA shirt.