Earlier today we went to "A Very Strawberry Family Day" put on by the Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) at Dolcini's Redhill Ranch, off Point Reyes-Petaluma Road.
We had fun hunting for strawberries
it was picturesque and a beautiful, sunny day
Speaking of beautiful, we went with the lovely miss Clara Puiggali (aka Quinn's future wife)
and her darling family
Got to check out some chickens, too- young ones, teenagers, hens laying on eggs and protective roosters strutting their stuff. Here's one of the hen houses:
I always think it's a good thing when the boys get to see first hand where their food comes from. It's kinda morbid to think that those harmless chickens cruising around are human food, but I'm trying to normalize the idea for the boys that indeed, some animals we use for food. Apparently, it's working. When one of the chickens came walking right by our picnic blanket, Jordan looked up at me and said "I think we should eat that one."
It's a nice spot. We had a lot of fun with this ladybug (right near Quinn's elbow):
I love the idea of a little old fashioned good fun, but we did miss most of the U.S./Ghana World Cup game because of it. Hubs Ryan was astonished that we went berry picking instead of hanging out with him to watch the game, but we'd reserved and purchased our spot about 3 weeks ago- so we went despite his eye rolling.
Don't expect to harvest a bunch of strawberries (e.g., this was our entire haul):
and be prepared for a little mud as well. All in all, a lovely and close little getaway.
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