Flickr pic by Soymlk.)
Once a year, West Hills' Orcutt Ranch Horticultural Center -- a popular spot for weddings -- opens its doors wide to allow people to pick the fruit (oranges and white grapefruit) ripening in its grove. It happens this year on Saturday and Sunday, July 7 and 8, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The catch: It's not free. According to the park:
Visitors will need to bring their own grocery bags and/or medium-size moving boxes to hold their fruit; closed-toe shoes and long pants are recommended to avoid being scratched.
The cost is $2 for each average size bag of fruit, $3 for larger bags, and $5 per moving box. Fruit pickers will be available to rent for $1, or visitors can bring their own, but ladders and tree climbing are not permitted. In addition, other fruits – and the flowers – are off limits.
The Orcutt Ranch was built in the 1920s as a vacation and retirement estate of William Warren Orcutt and his wife Mary Logan Orcutt. (William Orcutt, by the way, was the first person to discover fossils in the La Brea Tar Pits.)
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