If labor leaders succeed in their apple campaign, they plan to apply the tactics used here and in the California strawberry fields to other agricultural sectors.

Salad with a goat cheese crouton would provide a refreshing interlude before a lemony dessert that takes advantage of the first good California strawberries of the year.

California strawberries, now entering peak season, dominate United States markets.

These mothers later discovered, as Dr. Semel did, that Central American raspberries, rather than California strawberries, were causing intestinal problems.

ROSY stalks of fresh rhubarb arrive in the market to coincide with the peak of the season for California strawberries.

And fresh California strawberries are at their peak.

Maus bought mushrooms, fern shoots, scallions, Florida corn, and California strawberries.

In one of the best examples so far, he said, mites that afflict California strawberries have been successfully and routinely countered by turning predatory mites loose against them.

Driscoll Strawberry Associates, Inc was founded in 1953 as an independent California cooperative selling fresh California strawberries.

"There was a scare with respect to California strawberries being tainted and fears they could cause hepatitis," he said.