At Tanaka Farms, left, an employee uses a streamer to chase birds out of the strawberry field. In addition to tours and U-pick activities, the farm maintains a produce stand and gift shop, below, and offers subscription farm-box deliveries and pickup.
Tour guide Samara Herrera, above, tells visitors about the farm’s crops. At right, the Tanaka family are, from left, Glenn and his wife, Shirley, holding grandson Kenji, and Kenny and his wife, Christine, with daughter Kaylee and son Landon.
in Japan to help them rebuild and survive,” said Glenn Tanaka, a third-generation Japanese-American farmer. In addition to sampling fresh fruits and vegetables from the farm, walkers may view a repository (pictured at left) that highlights first- and second-generation Japanese-American farmers and farm history. For more information, go to walkthefarm.org.
Since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, thousands of people have gathered at Tanaka Farms in Irvine every year to take a 1 1/2-mile walk around the farm to raise money for farmers locally and abroad suffering from natural disasters. This year’s Walk the Farm event is scheduled for June 18. “We raised over a million dollars and sent that to farmers
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