Eatwell Farm

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Flight of Strawberries

We have four varieties this year; Chandler, Albion, Seascape and San Andreas. When you get into the strawberry field, we encourage you to taste all four. They are labeled at the end of the first of the three rows of each variety. Why four? Well, because it is fun to have variety and as you will taste, they are different. They also vary from week to week depending on the weather. This is also insurance for us in case one variety does not do well. We once had a group of USDA crop insurance adjusters use our farm as an example for a class in Davis. They concluded, that they could not write a crop insurance policy for a farm as diverse as ours. They concluded that the diversity meant that we were self insured?