Warmer weather helping Valley strawberry growers get early start to season

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Sweet reddish berries are rapidly increasing connected the vine astatine Kao's Strawberry Farm astatine Shaw and Grantland successful northwest Fresno.

The warm, adust upwind helped the Saetern household bask an aboriginal commencement to strawberry season.

"I'm gladsome we're not hitting adjacent to triple digits oregon precocious 90s yet," says Nancy Saetern. "That conscionable means strawberries volition beryllium present a small longer. Usually, erstwhile we deed the archetypal week of June, we're beauteous overmuch done."

Kao is Nancy's father.

Customers dropping by were blessed to spot strawberry play successful afloat swing.

"I turn my own, but I can't bushed what they bash here," says Greg Torrano.

Torranocame to reserve respective flats of boysenberries erstwhile they're acceptable to pick.

The Saetern household workplace grows respective varieties of strawberries -- each antithetic successful size, sensation and quality to withstand the Valley heat.

You'll find overmuch much than conscionable strawberries increasing successful this location, wherever the household has farmed for much than a decade.

Sugar drawback peas and ample cabbage are among the crops available.

"We person onions, truthful we person purple and white," Nancy said.

Nancy is studying to go a teacher but spends each of her spare clip connected the household farm.

"I'm ever consenting to assistance my parents," she said. "That's wherefore I made this full travel of creating their societal media. I'm technically Gen Z, truthful I'm like, we person to enactment ourselves retired there. Especially with not a batch of farms being present successful Fresno anymore."

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