Chao's Strawberries — Attraction in Brentwood

Please do yourself a favor and find another strawberry farm in Brentwood. This farm has ways to go to be a better place.

The farm used to be very nice good place (I think in past it was called Chang's farm or something like that). I guess the owner recently has changed and a lot of things got very bad here...

No bags are allowed. I mean, not even purse for holding a phone. Or diapers for kids... What is a person has a medical condition? I guess they may think people will put strawberries into purses or backpacks ? :) No water bottles are allowed. I've complained about it on Instagram and they said that bottles can be left on their property or people could use water to wash the strawberries. Well, isn't it part of the experience, to go on farm and try a fruit? How much each person can/will really eat in field? Even in grocery store you're allowed to try food first before buying. 2.1 They don't sell water. If they did, that would at least make some sense. 2.2. I've seen crew members having water in the fields, but customers are not allowed. Discrimination 2.3 If they concerned about bottles to be left on property, then at least allow to bring your own bottles. They seem to water field couple hours before Saturday when they opened it to public, which made the whole picking experience very muddy and unpleasant. I get it that strawberries need water, but could you water it a day before, OR at least 12+ hours before opening it to public so that water soaks and mud dries out.

p.s. I posted similar complain on their instagram page and they banned me and removed my comment. Very respectful... Oh well, at least by doing so they agree that they are wrong and the can't find a better response other than...

The lady at the stand was rude. I came up to the stand to ask the pricing for boxes of strawberries and u-pick and she acted so annoyed. She only had one half flat and I asked if she had others for me to choose from and she rudely said “you either but it or you don’t! I don’t need you, I have other who will buy.” I should have just walked away and not bought from her because half the strawberries were rotten. The rotten ones were hidden underneath the top layer and the ones that were not had no flavor.

By the response below, seems like they feel okay about selling bruised strawberries. Bruised strawberries rot the...

This was my second time at this place. I must say they are very systematic and control the crowd really well. Usually they charge like 50 cents per box that you have to buy because they don’t allow your own buckets or bags. Don’t take large bag packs or water bottles because they will ask you to keep it out of the area. Strawberries are amazing and you can find a lot. Also I must share that other the strawberries, I got honey from them last year and it has been amazing, natural and...