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Natalie K.

Went strawberry picking with the kids! We were originally going to another place but that place ran out of strawberries for self picking and we didn't know till we got there! Such a disappointment! I quickly looked up the nearest open place and found Live Earth Farm. We made an online reservation for parking our two cars. Cost $20 each car I think. It was well worth the great experience and not disappointing the children we took who were so excited to go strawberry picking! The place was beautiful and the staff were so nice. Price for self picked strawberries was cheaper than the other place. They provided boxes and bags. They even let us start before our reservation time which was a huge relief cus I don't know how I would have entertained the children that long and so long passed their nap time! Live earth farm was our saving grace this day.

A late spring/early summer share plus extra strawberries!
Carolyn T.

My life has changed in a major way since finding and joining Live Earth Farm CSA! I love having a refrigerator full of fresh produce to cook up each week and the quality is second to none! Items you would buy at the store that go bad in less than a week last for weeks from Live Earth because they are so fresh! I don't mind doing the extra work of washing the dirt and occasional bug off my produce. I am a foodie geek and get excited to cook new items like Kohlrabi and other veggies I wouldn't normally think to buy at the store or farmer market! Three cheers for Live Earth Farm CSA!

Ye H.

I have been a CSA member for a year now. I joined after reading Omnivore's Dilemma and watching Food, Inc. Farmer Tom is educated, smart, and a dedicated good steward of the land. Everything is organically and responsibly grown. Great year-round variety. Convenient local pick up. You can also get flour, coffee, beans, 'canned' items - such as tomatoes, sauerkraut, and applesauce - pastured eggs, bread, extra fruit, and goat cheese and milk from their local partners delivered along with your share.

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Suelem A.

Our first strawberry picking ever! We had a great Father's Day celebration at farm, we pick delicious strawberries, we learn how to dig potatoes, we had a ride on tractor and play a lot on the straw bale fort. Can't wait for tomatoes season!

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Super friendly staff and such an amazing place to visit. We picked tomatoes and apples and they are both incredibly delicious.

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Braeburn Fuji Gala…read moreGolden Delicious Granny Smith Gravenstein McIntosh Pink Pearl Pippin Red Delicious Why exactly am I naming these apple varieties you ask? Prior to my visit to the Hillview Farm these were the only 10 varieties of apples I could name if someone were to ask. For somebody like me who eats more apple pie and drinks more apple juice than I do eating fresh apples I thought 10 was pretty impressive. Then I met Joe Stabile. Joe and his wife own an 18 acre apple orchard in Watsonville. When they bought the property in the early 1980's 4 varieties of apples were grown at this 450 tree orchard. Joe and his wife now have over 200 varieties of apples on this orchard and nearly 4200 trees! Yup, shows you how little I know about apples! For the Stabiles it's all about custom grafting and creating new varieties of apples. Many of the varieties found in the Hillview Farm orchard are not found anywhere else. Joe, a former IBM engineer who retired in 1992 to become a full time farmer, is a man of great patience. He loves the art of taking different types of apple trees, grafting the branches together and playing the waiting game on how successful the graft will be. Some grafts take years to develop. That doesn't faze Joe though; no matter how long it takes the bottom line is that the apple has to taste good. Overall taste is the deciding factor in deciding whether a custom graft is successful or not. For our recent farm tour the Stabiles went all out and pre-picked three big baskets of delicious Gravensteins, sweet Sansas and tart Pink Pearls for our group to enjoy. Judging by how quickly the fruit in the basket disappeared I'd have to agree with my fellow farm visitors that the Pink Pearls were our favorites for its beautiful color and delicious taste. Joe showed us the heavy machinery that sorts his apples by size. Then he showed us his juicer and talked about his juicing techniques. Joe and his small staff presses 80 to 100 gallons of juice per day. He bottles the juices immediately and stores the fresh pressed, unfiltered juices and juice blends in freezers then sells the product in assorted sizes at local farmers markets. Joe also sells dried apples at the farmers markets. He uses an industrial sized dehydrator and gave us delicious samples of both the Golden Delicious and Fuji varieties to sample. Our group was already in apple heaven when we stepped out into his orchard to look at the fresh fruit trees and examine some of the grafting techniques used. In addition to apples the Stabiles harvest dozens of varieties of pears, plums and persimmons plus other tree grown fruits. The different sizes, shapes and colors of the apples in the Hillview orchard were mind-boggling. I took tons of photos but after awhile they all started to look the same to me. The Stabiles didn't seem to have that problem though. They knew exactly which variety was which and even gave us data on the fruit's characteristics when we asked. True apple geniuses those Stabiles are. After our tour we gave the family some business too buying up fresh pressed apple juice, and homemade apple products such as preserves, syrups, dressings and butters. Hillview Farm products are sold at three local farmers markets. They are at the Vallco Farmers Market in Cupertino on Fridays, the Danville Farmers Market on Saturdays and the Jack London Square Farmers Market in Oakland on Sundays.

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