California Strawberry Festival

California Strawberry Festival
Status	Active
Genre	Festival
Frequency	Annual
Venue	Ventura County Fairgrounds
Location(s)	Ventura, California
Country	United States
Years active	1984–2019, 2023-present
Inaugurated	1984 (1984)
Attendance	20,000 to 25,000
Website	California Strawberry Festival

The California Strawberry Festival is an annual strawberry festival that takes place in Ventura, California, United States.^[1] The event is held at the Ventura County Fairgrounds on the third weekend of May. The festival was held at College Park, adjacent to Oxnard College, from 1991 to 2019.^[2] The California Strawberry Festival began in 1984, and was originally held at Channel Islands Harbor.

The 2020, 2021, and 2022 events were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival is scheduled to resume in 2023.^[3]

Local production

This section is an excerpt from Oxnard, California § Strawberries.[edit]

The Oxnard Plain is well known for its strawberries. According to the USDA, Oxnard is California's largest strawberry producer, supplying about one-third of the State's annual strawberry volume.^[4] From the end of September through the end of October, strawberries are planted and harvesting occurs from mid-December through mid-July in Oxnard. The peak harvesting season in California runs from April through June, when up to 10 million pint baskets of strawberries are shipped daily.^[5] The state of California supplies over 85 percent of U.S. strawberries, with the U.S. supplying a quarter of total world production of strawberries.^[6]

References

^ Quiquivix, Linda (July 3, 2017). "Beyond Permaculture Ethics: Review of Permaculture Magazine's Film Series, "Living with the Land"". Capitalism Nature Socialism. 28 (3): 129–132. doi:10.1080/10455752.2017.1353229. ISSN 1045-5752. S2CID 148659771.
^ Varela, Brian J. (February 1, 2023). "Strawberry Festival is back with new location". Ventura County Star. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
^ Salgado, Cytlalli (March 17, 2022). "Strawberry Festival in Oxnard canceled for third time due to coronavirus". Ventura County Star. Retrieved May 28, 2022. For the third year in a row, the California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard has been canceled due to COVID-19 uncertainty. The event dedicated to the region's staple crop will not take place in 2022, organizers announced last week.
^ [1] Archived February 7, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
^ [2] Archived October 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ Charles, Dan (May 17, 2012). "The Secret Life Of California's World-Class Strawberries". NPR News.