They were all going to Oxnard to pick strawberries.

"How could we refuse all the children who are begging their parents to let them pick strawberries?"

It's certainly easier on the back than picking strawberries.

I'm trying to imagine a young British woman picking strawberries in her bra like that.

I did so want to pick strawberries of my own this year.

Even better, every day for the past six weeks they have picked and eaten home-grown strawberries.

"I saw some visitors the other day trying to stop young children picking wild strawberries," she says.

I picked strawberries and got 5 cents a box.

When I asked how many of them had ever picked strawberries only four raised their hands.

Two children, picking wild strawberries by themselves in late afternoon.