and in the summertime here in castroville, it's rare it gets above 75 degrees. in fact, normally it's 65 in the day and around 50 at night. and it's that way from the middle of june to the middle of august. >> california produces a hundred percent of the united states' crop of artichokes, and it's no easy task. before it reaches your home, it will take skill, eed and smarts out in the field to get the job done right. workers begin by scouring the field looking for the right-sized artichoke, which they quickly harvest and then toss over their back into a specially-made artichoke harvesting backpack called a canasta. from there, they take it to the nearby packing truck, where each choke is inspected and packed with only the best of the best, making it through to your store. >> each crew is going to harvest and pack between 3 and 5,000 cartons on a daily basis for the next 2 months. and that really equates to about 150,000 artichokes per crew per day. now, at thic time, we're running 3 crews, we're pushing half a million artichokes. >> and hoping to help them reach

but he heard about the lettuce industry in the earla 1920s, s he moved my family here to castrovillend started farming lettuce. >> the two families came together, and we'd always been farming collectively together. they had their separate farming operation. we had our separate harvest and marketing. and what we did in 1982 is we formed tanimura & antlewhere we've created a vertically integrated company where we had the farming, the harvest, the cooling and marketing all under one umbrella. so from a very humble beginning in 1982 to what we have today, it was really the--you know, the respect that the two families have had for over 50 years. >> today the tanimura family and the antle faly farm more than 30,000 acres and assure excellence all the way from the seed to your salad. hand selected, picked, and washed, every step to ensure food safety is taken here. and as a result, tanimura & antle is now one of america's premiere fresh produce farming operations with over 40 varieties of fresh vegetables available for consumers. but nothing has them quite as excited these days as their new

that further to the south with the core of the low spinning on by down into the monterey bay near castrovillex over the mountains there just north of pinnacles national monument. it looks like we have a chance of scattered showers in the bay area as this system continues to slide south then moving onshore. as it moves by some of the moisture may spin up around the system. it will keep clouds in the skies and temperatures are going to be cool and we could see an occasional light shower. temperatures in the 20s and 30s in the north bay, 40s elsewhere. by the afternoon highs only in the 50s. bundle up heading out. let's check the roads with elizabeth. >> thanks. we're going to check our east bay driving conditions. we happen to have a camera right there through walnut creek showing you 24/680 interchange. actually those taillights are moving southbound on 680. everything is moving at top speeds this morning down through the san ramon valley. if you are heading towards the bay bridge and the macarthur maze, here's a live look at the conditions there. there is a wind advisory in effect it since mi