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This is a review of the Pumpkin Patch.
My jaw hit the ground when I saw all four of us would have to pay $9, including the kids. Guess what. It was worth even more. The price includes a pumpkin, a ride on a tractor, a whole bunch of barnyard animals to look at, plenty of photo ops, friendly and genuine folks working there, and a barnyard show that is actually entertaining. I was clapping my hands like an idiot with my kids.
It is also easy to get to and worth the drive to get your rug rats out into real farm country.
Great job Smith Family.
LOVE this place! we were there in early august, and had a fantastic time with friends.
free samples, great prices ($1/lb. for U-pick, but nothing at the stand was above $2/lb.), super friendly staff all make for a great experience.
but, OH, the produce...
they had tomatoes (and i mean TOMATOES - http://www.flickr.com/...), peppers, strawberries, onions, corn, pluots, plums, and the best peaches i've ever had (altogether, we bought 8 pounds of them!)
i will be come back again and again! thanks smith family farms!
Went this past weekend (August 1st) and the U-pick peaches were super delicious, juicy, and $1.00/lb. Amazing!
Their other produce was awesome as well...succulent pluots (I just ate my last one, darn!), beefy heirloom tomatoes (with samples!), colorful peppers, and torpedo onions - so strange!
I would love to visit when other fruits/veggies are in season. The staff was wonderfully friendly as well!
They are now $2.00/lb. but still worth the price!
The BEST heirloom tomatoes - they supply restaurants - best kept secret ever - $1.50 lb.
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Not much to say about these guys other than.... mmmmm.
The fruit and veg on offer here are their seconds - the prime stuff goes to restaurants and farmers markets - but unless you REALLY know what you're looking for, you can't tell the difference. I walked out of there with a half dozen heirloom tomatoes, a bag of squash, couple pounds of assorted onions, asian pears, pluots, nectarines, and peaches, and a few ears of corn for $20. People working the stand are great, even told me to put stuff I picked out back, because they had some better stuff they hadn't put out yet (I got there late in the day.)
And it's all good. Really. Good.
Not sure if it's worth a trip out to Brentwood on it's own, but if you're in the area, then you'd be mad to not stop. Mad, I tellya!
Five big red ones again - and I'm not talking tomatoes, although we picked plenty of them yesterday. The good folks at SFF had just opened up a new field of romas and heirlooms, and we picked to our hearts content. I think we ended up with about 38 pounds of tomatoes, mostly romas since they are the best for sauce.
After we finished up the tomato picking, we stopped at the farm stand and picked up some corn (4 for a buck), hot and sweet peppers, cukes (good for pickling) and a beautiful Crenshaw melon.
They'll be doing U-pick tomatoes, peppers and peaches through September, so be sure to stop by!
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They're the BEST!
Friendly, decent prices, fruit that's ripe enough to eat today! Highly recommend them. I buy my fruit in spring and summer, my pumpkins in the fall, and my Christmas trees in the winter. What else can I say?
This is my favorite farmer's market on an actual farm. During the summer and late fall you can find a cornucopia of fresh produce, including but not limited to:
tri-colored bell peppers, about 15 varieties of hot or sweet!
about eight varieties of squash including crookneck, green, yellow and white zuchinni; globe (that's all I can remember off the top of my head)
They boast over 50 varieties of tomatoes- small baskets (cherry, grape, yellow cherry, sungold) as well as roughly a dozen heirlooms and beefsteaks
other produce: cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelons and crenshaw melons; basil and some other herbs; Blue Lake, Romano and Wax beans; eggplant.
My favorites are their corn which is always just the right amount of sweet and bursting with goodness (Brentwood corn is where most supermarkets in the Bay Area get their corn in the early summer- I get mine fresh off the farm, bey*tches), nectarines and peaches.
I did many comparisons/taste tests with other neighboring farmstands as well as supermarket varieties and theirs always came out on top with lots of fresh, true juicy sweet flavor. From their stand I made a fresh peach tiramisu for JR's birthday and the restaurant I brought it to adored it- I credit the high quality of the fruit!
I heard they have some pick-your-own boysenberry/pumpkin patches but I'm usually too busy to check it out.
Overall they are very friendly and the produce is wonderfully tasty. Produce starts losing it's nutrients the moment it leaves the earth- what better way to get as much as you can out of them than to pick it up from the farm where it all grew, a few feet from where you parked your car?
This is easily the best local treasure I have found. They have plenty of beautiful fresh produce for the adults and pumpkins for the kids. Their fruit stand is always stocked with a variety of delicious heirloom tomatoes for a pretty cheap price. In the fall their pumpkin patch can't be beat for little kids. The admission is only $8, which at first I thought was steep for admission to a farm but that included the corn maze, animals, a hay tunnel, and a wagon ride out to their pumpkin patch to pick any pumpkin of your choosing. I'd pay $8 for a pumpkin anyways. Also, in October you can get beautiful white pumpkins at the fruit stand in the front. They look great on my porch and surprisingly they usually make it to December!
This is a very cool place to go with young kids for the pumpkin festival and with or without kids for the U-Pick tomatoes.
This farm is out in the middle of no where amongt a bunch of other farms. I first saw it on "Bay Area Backroads" and decided to give it a try. I took my daughter (then nearly 3) to the pumpkin festival. It was really cute. There were farm animals and tractor displays, a little country store, and a live jamboree playing by the picnic tables at lunch time. We rode a hay wagon out to the fields to select our pumpkins. My daughter also got to do a little pony cart ride. Excellent outting for the younger set (under 8).
We've also gone several years to the U-Pick tomatoes in late summer. Why drive all this way to pick your own tomatoes you ask? Well, I am a fiend for tomatoes. Fresh grown ones loaded with flavor, that is. Not those store-bought variety with no flavor whatsoever. I can pop the farm-grown cherry tomatoes like popcorn and I eat so many regular tomatoes (from the farm) that my tongue gets sore from the acid.
What's the deal? Well, you drive out, you get a wagon and a bucket or two, and you get to walk the fields picking as many tomatoes (they have dozens of varieties) as you want. You weigh it in when you're done and pay such a tiny amount for the wealth of heavenly tasting tomatoes! Again, it's a long drive from San Jose, but I consider it an event/outting with my daughter (now 6 1/2) and the flavor of the tomatoes is worth it.
Note: Call first! Depending on the weather in any given year, they are not always open when you think they should be. I made that mistake one August. You can stop at other fruit/vegetable stands while your in Brentwood and get great, locally grown produce of all kinds.
great place to take the family for a farm like adventure and to get fresh seasonal produce and xmas trees....dont forget holloween to go here for a great time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Smith Family Farms is simply a must stop if you are anywhere near this place. Fresh, Vine-ripe Heirloom tomatoes the size of your head for $1.50/pound. Mounds of great seasonal produce. You can either grab pre-picked or go pick your own.
Found it by accident a long time ago. Still makes me gaga. I can't help it: I always buy way too much and end up Frezeer canning stuff.
Oh, very kid friendly place. Very down home. Very friendly.
If you like fresh, fresh, fresh tasty produce check it out. It's worth a day trip, seriously. Pack a picninc and some Vino in a cooler and head on out. Skip the Wine country, come to Tomato and Corn country!
After driving around looking for a place to buy some nice pumpkins and possibly check out a corn maze we found our way to Smith Family Farms. And can I just say that once you are on the right road, they let you know you are on the right path with a hand painted sign at each intersection. I found this helpful.
Anyway, the farm was great. Lots of delicious veggies, pomegranates the size of my head and stacks of beautiful pumpkins that didn't break the bank.
The women who worked there were so nice and friendly. They even let me slide on the price when I was $1.50 short for my bag o' tomatoes!
I can't review the attractions (such as the Native American village) because after walking down there we discovered it was $8 to enter. That's a little pricey for me. That's like zoo or museum prices. So we skipped it. But I would definately go out of my way to buy produce there again.
Totally fun outing, just 40 minutes from Oakland,. Heres an opportunity to visit some local farms and pick your own fruit. Make jams, canned stuff make pies and Just plain, eat yummy veggies and food. This farms is great, lot of variety and great produce.
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