{"id":21142,"date":"2015-09-15T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21142"},"modified":"2015-09-15T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:08:07","slug":"festivals-feature-apples-grapes-walnuts-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/festivals-feature-apples-grapes-walnuts-bananas\/","title":{"rendered":"Festivals Feature Apples, Grapes, Walnuts,  Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bapple.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We need healthy fruits &amp; nuts in our diet and are fortunate as Californians to be able to consume foods grown in our state. The farm industry has taken a beating during the drought, including from\u00a0media outlets as reported by The California Almond Board (almonds.com) recently\u00a0in a story, &#8220;6 Ways Vice News Got It Wrong About Almonds and the California Drought.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>False: Agriculture uses 80 percent of the state&#8217;s water.<br \/>\nFalse: Almond trees are especially water-intensive.<br \/>\nFalse: Farmers continue to use antiquated production practices.<br \/>\nFalse: California is a desert that can\u2019t sustainably grow food.<br \/>\nFalse: Almond farmers&#8217; water use is irresponsible.<br \/>\nFalse: Almond farms are run by outside investment companies.<\/p>\n<p>Fruits &amp; nuts festivals give consumers opportunities to\u00a0buy local, learn facts about foods, and show support for farming. Here are some festivals this weekend:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-apple-festivals.html\">APPLES<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>POLLOCK PINES: Johnny Apple Seed Day<\/li>\n<li>APPLE HILL: Johnny Apple Seed Day<\/li>\n<li>BOONVILLE: Apple Show<\/li>\n<li>AVILA BEACH: Apple Festival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FRUITS &amp; NUTS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HUGHSON: Fruits &amp; Nuts Festival,\u00a0hughsonfruitandnutfestival.com<\/li>\n<li>WALNUT CREEK: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/walnut-festival.html\">Walnut Parade<\/a><\/li>\n<li>LODI: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/lodi-grape-festival.html\">Grape Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>PORT HUENEME:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/port-hueneme-banana-festival.html\">Banana Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need healthy fruits &amp; nuts in our diet and are fortunate as Californians to be able to consume foods grown in our state. The farm industry has taken a beating during the drought, including from\u00a0media outlets as reported by The California Almond Board (almonds.com) recently\u00a0in a story, &#8220;6 Ways Vice News Got It Wrong [&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\/21142"}],"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=21142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}