The California Strawberry Festival is an annual strawberry festival that takes place in Ventura. The event is held at the Ventura County Fairgrounds on the third weekend of May.
The 64th Garden Grove Strawberry Festival will be May 24-27.
When you think of California agribusiness, grapes, lettuce and almonds might come to mind first, but berries are a huge presence as well. California’s berry industry generates 5% of California’s farm sales (2020) from less than 1% of the state’s farmland.