California Strawberry Festival celebrates Top Crop

VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) It did not take lengthy for the opening day of the California Strawberry Festival to be jam packed

People lined up on the entrance of the Ventura County Fairgrounds.

Once inside, they’d an opportunity to pattern recent strawberries grown at Faria Farm in Oxnard.

Thanks to native growers and strawberry fields that seem to go on without end strawberries have been Ventura County’s high money crop for many years.

The competition bought its begin within the Channel Islands Harbor after which moved to Oxnard College.

It now fills the Ventura County Fairgrounds with a carnival environment.

Festival goers have an opportunity to quench their thirst on strawberry beer and margaritas.

Chocolate lovers flock to purchase chocolate dipped strawberries.

One of the most well-liked issues to do on the competition is construct your individual shortcake.

Volunteers assist in the method.

Magaly Hernandez mentioned Faria Farms is promoting trays of strawberries on the market for $20.

“I’m here with my son and we decided to create this beautiful Strawberry Shortcake,” mentioned Fred Pantoja of Oxnard. “This is amazing on this year at the Strawberry Festival,” mentioned Hernandez of Faria, We’ve bought loads of strawberries enormous advert scrumptious you can also make it with bitter cream with sugar, you are able to do it cowl with chocolate loads of issues to do with strawberries.”

Her favourite is strawberries with ice cream.

The Dr. Kato stage, named after the competition founder, had folks dancing to the Brandon Ragan Project on Saturday afternoon.

Strawberry souvenirs together with hats, t-shirts and even purses.

Some of the cash raised goes to scholarships for the youngsters of farm staff.

The California Strawberry Festival continues on Sunday from 10 am to six:30 pm

Free shuttles can be found throughout city.

For extra data go to https://castrawberryfestival.org