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We went cherry picking today at Pease Ranch. Due to highway construction they're a little difficult to reach this year. If you're coming from the East Bay take highway 4 east, and take the highway 4 Bypass Road. Turn left at Balfour Rd. Continue on Balfour until Sellers (don't turn on Walnut). Turn right on Sellers and then right on Marsh Creek Road. You can only enter Pease Ranch going WEST on Marsh Creek Road!

Pease Ranch is my favorite place to pick cherries in Brentwood. The Pease family is very friendly and they have one of the larger u-pick farms in the area so they'll still have cherries when others are out. They also have a nice area with tables and shade for lunch (bring your own - they only sell drinks).

I don't normally like to give away my secrets, but frankly the Pease Ranch ROCKS for "you-pick" cherries.  I've been there twice this season, due to my tremendous pound-a-day hunger for fresh cherries, and have not been disappointed.  

In contrast to more-trafficked you-pick cherry places in Brentwood, it's always very pleasant here.  There's lots of space and people are relatively few.  There are no ridiculous waivers to sign or minimum quantities to buy.  Plus they have at least 8 different types of cherries, so you are advised to wander around looking for your favorite -- life is more than Bings and Rainiers.  

It's simple to do you-pick.  Take a bucket from the booth in front (be sure to ask the nice people there what's ripe today and where it's located) and wander into the cherry orchard.  This is the point where I get really excited: look, it's CHERRIES, literally growing on trees!  

Sample various trees to find the cherries that you like.  Notice that each tree breed is marked with a different color of paint on the trunk. (Unpainted trunks are Bings.)  Remember that oversampling will eventually cause fructose delirium and digestive failure, so pace yourself -- this isn't the Fiber Olympics.

Once you find a good tree, cherry-pick it as appropriate to the breed.  Ladders are scattered around for you to use.  Leave stems on your cherries to keep them fresher longer, but don't break the branches in collecting them!    When you're done, just pay for what's in your bucket.

Now you can do it too!  The price right now is $2 per pound.  Sure, you might be able to get them cheaper someplace else, but they were picked by YOU and not an exploited immigrant -- just think how proud Michael Pollan would be.

I haven't given you all my secrets about Pease, but this'll get you started.  Have fun!