The California Strawberry Festival is an annual
strawberry festival that takes place in
Ventura, California
Ventura, officially named San Buenaventura (Spanish for "Saint Bonaventure"), is a city on the Southern Coast of California and the county seat of Ventura County. The population was 110,763 at the 2020 census. Ventura is a popular tourist des ...
, United States. The event is held at the
Ventura County Fairgrounds
Ventura ( Italian, Portuguese and Spanish for "fortune") may refer to:
Places
; Brazil
* Boa Ventura de São Roque, a municipality in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil
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on the third weekend of May. The festival was held at College Park, adjacent to
Oxnard College
Oxnard College is a public community college in Oxnard, California. It was established in 1975 by the Ventura County Community College District. It serves the Oxnard Plain cities of Oxnard, Camarillo, and Port Hueneme. Oxnard College offers both ...
, from 1991 to 2019. The California Strawberry Festival began in 1984 and was originally held at
Channel Islands Harbor
Channel Islands Harbor is a small craft harbor and shore-protection project in Oxnard, California at the southern end of the Santa Barbara Channel. It is the fifth largest harbor for small-craft recreation in the state of California and is a wate ...
.
The 2020, 2021, and 2022 events were canceled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...
. The festival is scheduled to resume in 2023.
Local production
See also
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List of strawberry topics
This is a list of topics about the strawberry. The strawberry is a widely grown hybrid species of the genus '' Fragaria'' (collectively known as the strawberries). It is cultivated worldwide for its fruit. The fruit (which is not a botanical berry ...
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Festivals in California
Food and drink festivals in the United States
Culture of Oxnard, California
Strawberry festivals
1984 establishments in California
Festivals established in 1984
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