28th April 2018: Strawberry‑picking at Tanaka Farms in Irvine California
/Home › › Tanaka Farms Tanaka Farms, a Japanese-American family-owned farm located in Irvine near Los Angeles, offers a popular strawberry‑picking tour that has become a beloved spring tradition. Situated about an hour's drive south of downtown Los Angeles, the farm is well‑known for being operated by the Tanaka family, who originally immigrated from Japan. It is also a favorite destination for families. The strawberry‑picking experience is conducted as a guided tour, during which visitors ride on a wagon pulled by a tractor to the fields. Along the way, participants can also enjoy harvesting seasonal vegetables. As the guide provides explanations during the tour, guests can learn about the farm while traveling through the fields. Once they arrive at the strawberry patch, visitors are free to pick fully ripened, bright‑red strawberries and enjoy them on the spot. Each participant may take home one container of freshly picked strawberries, whose natural sw...