SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – There's good and bad news for fans of Brentwood's famed "U-Pick" cherry season.
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Farms have opened earlier than usual this year, but that also means they may close sooner.
Cherry season normally begins in mid-May, but some farms this year, like the popular Vornhagen Farms, opened at the end of April.
"It got warmer a little bit earlier, and we didn't have the late spring rains that sometimes happen, and so the fruit is ripe. So we opened," Vornhagen Farms owner Deneen Vornhagen told KCBS Radio.
Since the farm opened early this year, Vornhagen said they'e hoping to stay that way until the first week of June.
"The crop this year is much better than last year, it is a really good crop this year for all the Brentwood farms," she said. "It's doing very well."
She explained that one of the perks of coming to an orchard, rather than a grocery store, is that customers can pick and choose which cherries they want — hence the name "U-Pick."
"We even tell people, go out there, taste a cherry off that tree, if you don't like it go to the next tree until you find a tree where you like those cherries and you take that one. You can't do that at Safeway," Vornhagen said.
Jerry and Sharon Capwell drove all the way from San Francisco to spend Mother's Day at Vornhagen Farms with their sons Joe and Jax.
"It's roomy, the orchards are shady and the kids can run around in them," Sharon told KCBS radio.
"This is something fun we wanted to do at the start of the season so it's not too hot, and, for Mother's Day, I wanted to do something fun with the kids and I know that they would love it," she said.
Cherries at Vornhagen Farms are sold at $4 per pound.
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