By Judith Prieve
From Bay Area News Group
“All fruits are beautiful, but the mulberry is the king of fruits.”
–Persian Proverb
Move over cherry, there’s a new berry in town.
Thousands of cherry lovers throughout the Bay Area make their way each spring to one of dozens of U-pick farms in Brentwood, California, for the plump, juicy round fruits, but now—for the first time—there’s another option that is arguably just as sweet: the Himalayan purple mulberry, which looks a bit like an elongated blackberry with tiny clusters of fruit.
Not only is Habitera Farms the only one allowing visitors to partake in the picking of the tasty, dark-colored fleshy fruit—the season lasts about eight weeks—but it appears to be the only business selling mulberries on such a large scale commercially in the United States….