{"id":16486,"date":"2014-05-21T01:10:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T08:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16486"},"modified":"2014-05-21T01:10:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T08:10:28","slug":"strawberry-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/strawberry-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"Strawberry Stampede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bercalke.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Memorial Weekend thousands of strawberry desserts\u00a0are served at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-strawberry-festivals.html\">strawberry festivals<\/a> in Arroyo Grande, Garden Grove, Guerneville and Vista. A tradition in Garden Grove continues at the strawberry shortcake cutting ceremony this Friday, where free cake is served to all who attend!\u00a0\u00a0But that&#8217;s just the whipped cream on the shortcake. From a strawberry parade to a berry stampede, little shortcake beauty contests to cookoffs, the public can&#8217;t get enough of a fruit that&#8217;s huge&#8211;literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-strawberries.html\">Berry facts:<\/a><br \/>\n1. California grows 88% of the nation&#8217;s strawberries<br \/>\n2. 75% are harvested for the fresh market, while 25% are processed and frozen<br \/>\n3. 500 miles of growing region extends from\u00a0San Diego to San Francisco<br \/>\n4. Unlike other fruits California strawberries are hand-picked when ripe and they don&#8217;t continue to ripen after picking<br \/>\n5. In 2014 Oxnard has remained the largest strawberry producer in the state and its berry production is up from last year<br \/>\n6. California strawberries have a 12 month growing season<br \/>\n7. Volume peaks in April, May and June when production in all districts overlaps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Memorial Weekend thousands of strawberry desserts\u00a0are served at\u00a0strawberry festivals in Arroyo Grande, Garden Grove, Guerneville and Vista. A tradition in Garden Grove continues at the strawberry shortcake cutting ceremony this Friday, where free cake is served to all who attend!\u00a0\u00a0But that&#8217;s just the whipped cream on the shortcake. From a strawberry parade to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}