These are mulberries, and they're an unexpected hit for one Bay Area u-pick farm
The Himalayan purple mulberry looks a bit like an elongated blackberry with tiny clusters of fruit.
Judith Prieve is a journalist with the Bay Area News Group in California. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she has worked as a reporter, features editor and assistant metro editor at newspapers in Wisconsin and Northern California and has been at what is now the Bay Area News Group for more than 25 years.