Tanaka Farms Field Trip

Tuesday was Jenna's field trip to Tanaka Farms in Irvine.  I didn't know it was so close, and what a great experience!  We got to have a tractor tour which was like a hayride without the hay.  We stopped at several fields and tasted what was growing there.  The farmhands would gather bunches and rinse them and hand them out as we sat in the carts.  And since the whole farm is organic, we could eat everything freshly picked.  Jenna tasted cilantro, spinach, carrots, sugar snap peas, bok choy, and green onions (I skipped the cilantro and onions although I have to say they smelled delicious).  Our last stop was the strawberry field where the kids could pick and eat as much as they wanted.  Delicious!  Each student received a basket of strawberries when we got back from the tour.  I shopped in the stand and loaded up on salsa ingredients, fresh jam, and both jalapeño corn bread and pumpkin bread.  What a treat!  We ate lunch on hay bales in the shade before returning home.  We're totally planning on going back for the pumpkin patch tours!