We have been going for cherry picking at Brentwood for past 2 years and it has been lot of fun. So, we wanted to go this year as well. Mummy is visiting us and so we thought it would be a nice picnic with her.
I had heard that there is some cherry picking farm in Gilroy and so I googled it and thought of trying out the Buckley Farms in Gilroy (about 30 miles) instead of driving all the way to Brentwood (about 60 miles) this year.
We called up many friends to see if they would like to join - but for some or the other reason, they all could not. So, we decided to go all by ourselves. I made some Quesadilla for our lunch and packed up everything. We left around 11-11:30 and were there in 30-40 mins. The Buckley Farm is very near by to the Gilroy outlet mall. The farm is family owned and has a very nice setting. They had other fruit trees beside cherry as well. The apple trees had very small and cute apples :)
Mummy and Kavya were very happy and started picking cherries right away. Mummy had a different idea of what the farm and cherry trees would be like and so she was very pleasantly surprised. We soon found some shade under a nice tree and had our lunch. And then we were back to business - cherry picking !! There were lots and lots of cherries on the trees. Some of them were so low that even Ishaan could reach them and he loved it. He would pick cherries with both his hands :) Since he does not understand the concept of seed yet, he would put the entire cherry in this mouth and then when he realized that there was something hard inside, he would spit it out.
We ate lot of cherries there and came back home with 4 lbs of them. They were very sweet and it was a great experience. We will surely go back to this farm next year..
Vicinity to the Gilroy outlet is a big plus too since we can do some shopping after cherry picking (just like we did this time) :)
Here are some pictures :
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