{"id":20813,"date":"2015-07-30T02:28:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T09:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20813"},"modified":"2015-07-30T02:28:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T09:28:29","slug":"chula-vista-lemon-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/chula-vista-lemon-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Chula Vista Lemon Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/chulemo.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chula Vista, Calif. used to be the Lemon Capital of the World.\u00a0While lemons still hover among California&#8217;s Top 20 agriculture commodities you can thank Ventura County for being top producer\u00a0of \u00a0this citrus fruit (San Diego County where Chula Vista is located comes in 2nd.) Lemons are the only citrus fruit in California to have 12 month growing season, attributing to the state&#8217;s rank as\u00a0top grower of lemons in the United States. While more than 25,000 people are expected to sip lemonade and celebrate lemons at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/chula-vista-lemon-festival.html\">Chula Vista Lemon Festival<\/a> on August 2, 2015 you will find lemonade at every county fair and most festivals where food is sold.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/small\/mentlem.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chula Vista hosts\u00a0one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-lemon-festivals.html\">four\u00a0lemon festivals<\/a> that we know about in the state. Internationally the best known lemon festival is the Menton Lemon Festival in France. That event\u00a0includes\u00a0scultpures, floats and statues in which citrus fruit &#8212; mainly lemons &amp; oranges &#8212; is used to create artistic designs on view in public spaces and during a parade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>California Counties Commodities Ranking\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RIVERSIDE: \u00a0Lemons are #7<br \/>\nSAN DIEGO: Lemons #6<br \/>\nVENTURA: Lemons #2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Buyers of Cal Lemons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canada<br \/>\nJapan<br \/>\nSouth Korea<br \/>\nChina<br \/>\nEurope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chula Vista, Calif. used to be the Lemon Capital of the World.\u00a0While lemons still hover among California&#8217;s Top 20 agriculture commodities you can thank Ventura County for being top producer\u00a0of \u00a0this citrus fruit (San Diego County where Chula Vista is located comes in 2nd.) Lemons are the only citrus fruit in California to have 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/20813"}],"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=20813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}