High Ground Organics

Ripe Organic Strawberries

Watsonville is of course a prime growing area for strawberries. We've been growing strawberries at High Ground Organics for six years now and are up to planting 3 acres of berries every year. Our favorite varieties are Seascape and Albion. We plant some of each, which helps even out the production through the season (Sometimes one variety goes into a lull, but the other keeps producing. The Seascapes tend to come in earlier, but the Albions are more consistent.) They are both delicious, sweet berries when picked ripe for direct market (that's you!) Every year we rotate our strawberry ground. The past few years we have grown the berries on the 10 acres we lease at the Redman House. This year, 2009, we have them back at our home farm, so we can walk out our back door into the strawberry patch. (The kids love this.) Here are some pictures of our strawberry patch this year (taken April 2009).