Strawberries! Fresh Picked Daily!

"Mr. Strawberry"

Everywhere we go it seems like they are selling strawberries.  They start selling early in the morning and are here until they sell out, usually around 2:00 to 3:00.  They are fresh picked daily in Oxnard,CA near the coast and are sold all over the Murrieta and Temecula area.  We buy a  box or two a week!  Its a real pleasure to have fresh strawberries every day on our cereal or just eat them. (Clicking on the pictures makes them bigger)

Strawberry Stand

The strawberries are from Thacker Berry Farms. Their flyer days that "Thacker Berry Farms is always searching the world-over to find the very best strawberry on earth. We currently grow a variety called "Seascape". This variety is grown by the sea, and that makes it very special. Not only is the variety itself unique but when anything is grown by salt water the salt permeates the soil with nutrients enhancing both appearance and flavor. Vine ripened to perfection and picked daily, we are sure you will find these strawberries heaven by the sea. 

In contrast supermarket strawberries are picked half ripe and then gassed with carbon dioxide for long shelf life and their variety is grown for production, not flavor. So tell you friends that there's a new berry in town at "Thacker Berry Farms."

Boxes of Fresh Strawberries

These are the ones we bought minus a few that we ate on the way home.