I believe that they are closed Mondays, but open all other days of the week until October from 8:00am until 5:00pm. For more information, you may contact them at 661.944.2425.
I got a lead today from my friend Beena A. She recently took her family to Yingst Ranch just outside Palmdale. (To be precise 35349 80th Street East in Littlerock, California.) The orchard grows peaches, white peaches, plums, apples, and pears all available for you to pick!
I believe that they are closed Mondays, but open all other days of the week until October from 8:00am until 5:00pm. For more information, you may contact them at 661.944.2425.
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We took a group to the Orange County Great Park in Irvine today and had a fabulous time. There's the free hot air balloon rides (get there as early as you can if you want to avoid missing out), free carousel rides, a fun "rock" playground with misters to cool everyone off, a little museum about the history of the site (first a farm and then El Toro military base before its transformation into a park), and the amazing Farm + Food Lab (and they even offer classes for home gardeners!). On weekends, there's an art gallery open, and there are special events likes concerts there, as well. And did I mention that if you forgot to bring a football to toss around with the kids, you can just borrow one? What's not to love?
Well, there are a couple things you should be aware of:
With all that said, I still highly recommend the OC Great Park as a family destination. It was even worth the drive from L.A. My husband has long been a fan of the book Manifold Destiny. For those who've never heard of it, I'll explain. Years ago, Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller wrote a book about the pleasures of cooking on your engine block while roadtripping. The book was enormously popular. Unfortunately, the publisher declared it out-of-print while there was still demand for the book. At that point, the book went on the resale market, often selling for upwards of 50 bucks. For a paperback! The authors eventually updated the book to stay current with today's tastes and automotive technology, and my husband finally got his hands on his very own copy.
We've finally begun to experiment with the techniques devised by Maynard and Scheller. They have whole meals you can make, but our ride today wasn't going to be that long, and we were nervous on our first time out, so we did the easiest thing possible. 1) Find a nice flat place on your engine block. 2) Triple-wrap in foil a pita stuffed with shredded cheese. 3) Place it in the space you found on your engine block. 4) Drive to the zoo, to the beach, or wherever. We opened up our packet at the zoo and my husband had a warm sandwich with gooey, melty cheese all ready for lunch. Totally cool. This advice is from Beth Schoen...
For those of us who keep kosher, print the kosher Slurpee flavors list from CRC and leave it in your car/van throughout the summer. That way, you won't stand in front of the Slurpee machine telling your kids that you don't know which flavors they can have and ending up getting Coke-flavored (again!). |