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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - On the country of Highway 180 and Reed Avenue, the Sunflower Farm Stand is much than a roadside stop; it's a five-generation household legacy.
"My parents request help, you know? So, I'm learning the ropes astir the effect basal business," said Thomas Strambi, who is the manager.
Summer is highest effect play successful the Central Valley, and this basal is stocked with the champion peaches, plums, watermelon, cherries, berries and each kinds of different saccharine fruits.
"Very soon we'll person pluots, which is simply a plum-apricot hybrid, and those are precise good," said Strambi. "We get 1 called a spirit grenade, and different 1 called summertime punch, which is similar ace reddish successful the middle, and it tastes amazing."
Inside the store, homemade jams and jellies-all made from scratch by Thomas’ aunt enactment the shelves, including his favourite apricot habanero.
But the existent showstopper is the sunflowers with implicit 21 varieties stretching up to the sky– immoderate up to 18 feet tall.
"Everybody's ever smiling retired there, you know, walking done the fields and kids are ever amazed astatine the galore antithetic sunflowers are retired here," said Strambi.
Those who halt by tin besides prime their ain flowers and physique a unsocial bouquet, adding to the experience.
The basal was opened by Thomas' dada Michael Strambi successful 2023, carrying connected a farming bequest that began generations ago.
"As a fifth-generation farmer, it's a bully clip to larn and travel the way that my dada paid for me, adjacent if it's thing small, but conscionable to support it going," said Strambi.
From fresh-picked effect to fields of aureate sunflowers, the sunflower farmstand is simply a reminder of roots, contented and family.
