They re high in vitamin A and cancer fighting agents known as phytochemicals. Next, we head from Sonoma County to Santa Maria where strawberries alone bring in 70 to 80 million dollars a year. To celebrate, the city holds an annual strawberry festival that attracts thousands of visitors from all over. We discovered there s more than one variety of strawberry at the festival by sampling four different types the chandler, camarosa, selva, and seascape. They each look similar and taste pretty similar too.
Raspberries are also members of the rose family.
Driscoll s raspberries flourish in the fertile soils near the Central coast thanks to warm days and cool, foggy nights. To preserve flavor and texture, Driscoll s raspberries are hand-picked, packed and graded in the fields. From there the raspberries are whisked away to cold storage where temperatures are close to freezing. This helps to extend the shelf life and is the only preservative used.