No-pesticide U-Pick cherries, 2011 -- where to go?

[bgbc]

I know it's early yet, especially as Frog Hollow's CSA note said cherries would probably be out later this year -- but where are the places to U-Pick cherries free of pesticides?

I feel like last year I scoured pickyourown.org, chowhound and other sites but never really got a sense of how many, if any farms meet these criteria. I've heard cherries are harder to grow w/o pesticides than other fruit (is this even true?), but if Frog Hollow can do it, surely others can and are.

Thanks!

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Frog Hollow Farm
11435 Brentwood, Bl Brentwood, CA

[wolfe]

Can't guarantee no pesticides but several u picks near Marsh Creek Road Brentwood. $2 a pound and easy pickings today at Pease Ranch.
http://www.peaseranch.com/

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Pease Ranch
25175 Marsh Creek Rd, Brentwood, CA 94513

[ola]

Here's the link to the Sonoma Farm Trails map
:http://www.farmtrails.org/pdfs/2010-F...

[wolfe]

Perhaps you can find something here.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/709303

[susancinsf]

Since I piped in last year with a Central Valley option on the thread wolfe links, I will pipe in again this year to say that I have heard unsubstantiated rumors that a lot of the Central Valley crop was seriously decimated by our late rains and cool weather. I do know that my own cherry tree just finished its bloom stage (which was halfway wiped out by rain) about two weeks ago. So yes, it will probably be a rather late year for cherries (and probably stone fruit as well).

Riverdance Farms is planning its Pick and Gather event again this year, and u-pick through mid-June (dates last updated in January, though, so things could have changed). Their fruit is organic and pesticide free:

http://www.localharvest.org/riverdanc...

[bgbc]

Thank you both!