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If you’re a\u00a0fan of the California\u00a0blackberry (Rubus ursinus) which\u00a0grows abundantly in Calfornia,\u00a0Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia and Baja California, this weekend the\u00a0annual Round Valley Blackberry Festival<\/a> in Covelo, Calif. celebrates the beloved fruit on\u00a0August 22 & 23 with\u00a0berry tastes for all to enjoy. \u00a0Not limited to deserts and berry pies, you’ll find blackberries used in beverages such as smoothies and shakes, plus\u00a0wine, brandy, port and liqueur. Though blackberries have been a food source for humans for thousands of years, their popularity has doubled during the last decade. The greatest recent expansion in blackberry production for fresh consumption across the United States and Europe has been in California and Mexico. This expansion has been driven by factors like a stable blackberry supply in most or all months of the year, made up of cultivars that allow shipping to distant markets. While the fresh blackberry industry expanded rapidly in California in the 1990s, it exploded in Mexico in the 2000s. Blackberries are chock full of nutrients and offer health benefits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re a\u00a0fan of the California\u00a0blackberry (Rubus ursinus) which\u00a0grows abundantly in Calfornia,\u00a0Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia and Baja California, this weekend the\u00a0annual Round Valley Blackberry Festival in Covelo, Calif. celebrates the beloved fruit on\u00a0August 22 & 23 with\u00a0berry tastes for all to enjoy. \u00a0Not limited to deserts and berry pies, you’ll find blackberries used […]<\/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\/20950"}],"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=20950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}