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From Blossom to Bucket: A Year in a Cherry Orchard
Ever wonder how those delicious cherries make it from the tree to your bucket? At Mike’s U-Pick, we experience the fascinating annual cycle of our cherry orchard firsthand, and we’re excited to share it with you. The U-Pick Season Opens Imagine this: “It’s May and the cherries are ripe and ready to be picked! Yay!”…
Read MoreThe Contra Costa Fruit Rescue ‘Comes to the Rescue!’
Borrowed partially from an article written by Jody Morgan in the August 2023 edition of Alamo Today and Danville Today News. Contra Costa Fruit Rescue (CCFR) has been making a huge impact on saving excess fruit from waste and getting it to those in need since the non-profit began harvesting in January 2023. CCFR is…
Read More“of all the gin joints, in all the towns…..”
Of all the cherry farm stands in all the towns in all the world….well in Brentwood anyway. A blog reporter by the name of Carrine, from Travel Lens stopped into Mike’s U-Pick last summer. Travel Lens is famous for creating posts of the ‘Best Things to Do In (fill in a city name)’, covering not…
Read MoreSF Chronicle’s Datebook names Mike’s Upick as something to do outside for Memorial Day
The May 23, 2021 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle had a section called ‘Things To Do Over the (Memorial) Weekend’, and guess who they recommended under the outdoor section? Mike’s U-pick was one of only six u-pick farms listed under Go Cherry Picking. Thank you SF Chronicle for the mention. We appreciate you, and…
Read MoreMikes U-pick gives back to their community
Mike’s U-Pick loves to grow fruit for local u-pick enthusiasts. But sometimes there aren’t enough pickers in a season to get all the fruit. That happened with their cherries in the summer of 2019, and Mike’s didn’t want the fruit to go to waste. That’s when The Urban Farmers came to the rescue. Founded in…
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