Berry Best Family Farm U-Pick Strawberries

Berry Best Family Farm U-Pick Strawberries

Berry Best Family Farm Pre-Picked and (sometimes) U-Pick Strawberries and Boysenberries in Alameda County

• Berry Best Family Farm - strawberries, boysenberries
  7450 Balfour Rd, Brentwood, CA 94513. Phone: (209) 601-6460. Alternate phone: (209) 622-1677. Open: Their fruit-stand is open Monday-Sunday from 9 am to 5:30 pm for pre-picked strawberries, U-Pick varies considerably, so always check their Facebook page for updates. U-Pick and Picked sweet strawberries, blackberries, and Boysenberries. We also offer a variety of fresh picked produce, peaches, apricots, pluots, tomatoes, sweet corn, blueberries, local honey, plums, cherries and more. Call for U-Pick times.  (ADDED: April 29, 2015, JBS)
• If you can share an experience or photos, or have any comments, please write me!

 

Strawberry Recipes, Canning and Freezing Strawberries

• How to freeze strawberries!
• Strawberry jam (with pectin) (uses less sugar or honey and less cooking)
• Strawberry jam (without pectin) (requires much more sugar and cooking)
• Strawberry (and other berry) jams without sugar
• Strawberry jelly
• Strawberry-rhubarb jam!
• Homemade strawberry ice cream (regular, low fat, nonfat, low sugar, vanilla and even gelato)
• Canning strawberries
• How to make fruit juice -  strawberry and other berries
• Strawberry pie filling
• Strawberry pie
• Easy Rhubarb-Strawberry pie
• Fig-strawberry jam
• Fig-strawberry jam, made with Jello gelatin

 

Notes for May 2025: The warm winter means strawberries will be EARLY this year! Move the dates ahead by 2 - 3 weeks on our state crop availability calendars for strawberries; see your state's calendar for more dates of upcoming crops. Blueberries have already started in FL and TX.

We also have home canning, preserving, drying and freezing directions. You can access recipes and other resources from the drop down menus at the top of the page or the site search. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to write me! It is easy to make your own ice cream, even gelato, or low fat or low sugar ice cream - see this page. Also note, there are many copycat website listing U-pick farms now.  They have all copied their information from here and usually do not ever update.  Since 2002, I've been updating the information every day but Christmas; so if you see anything wrong, please write me!

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