{"id":24119,"date":"2017-04-07T17:18:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T00:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24119"},"modified":"2017-04-07T17:18:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T00:18:32","slug":"california-is-strawberry-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-is-strawberry-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"California is Strawberry Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/smriabry.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Living in California has its perks. One of them is that we grow the biggest, best strawberries in the world. A\u00a0premier growing region is rolling out the strawberry festival season with its annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-maria-strawberry-festival.html\">Santa Maria Strawberry Festival<\/a> April 28-30, 2017. Pictured are scenes from a past event &#8212; look at those whoppers!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-strawberries.html\">Caliofrnia Strawberry Facts\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>12 month growing season<\/li>\n<li>500-mile growing region<\/li>\n<li>California is the nation&#8217;s leading producer of strawberries,\u00a0growing\u00a0more than 2 billion harvested pounds<\/li>\n<li>88%\u00a0of the country&#8217;s total fresh and frozen strawberries grown in California<\/li>\n<li>Over 15% of fresh crop exported<\/li>\n<li>75% strawberries grown for fresh market<\/li>\n<li>25% strawberries frozen\u00a0for processed market<\/li>\n<li>Top international buyers include\u00a0Japan, Canada, Hong Kong and Mexico<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-strawberry-festivals.html\">Strawberry Festivals\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ANDERSON: Happy Valley Strawberry Festival May 27 Memorial Weekend<\/li>\n<li>ARROYO GRANDE: May 27-28, Memorial Weekend<\/li>\n<li>GALT: Strawberry Festival May May 20-21<\/li>\n<li>GARDEN GROVE: May 26-29, Memorial Weekend<\/li>\n<li>GUERNEVILLE: Strawberry Festival May 27<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Balboa Strawberry Festival June 11<\/li>\n<li>OXNARD: California Strawberry Festival May 20-21<\/li>\n<li>ROSEVILLE: May 13-14,\u00a0 Mother&#8217;s Day Weekend<\/li>\n<li>SANTA MARIA: Strawberry Festival April 28-30<\/li>\n<li>VISTA: May 28 Memorial Weekend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in California has its perks. One of them is that we grow the biggest, best strawberries in the world. A\u00a0premier growing region is rolling out the strawberry festival season with its annual Santa Maria Strawberry Festival April 28-30, 2017. Pictured are scenes from a past event &#8212; look at those whoppers! Caliofrnia Strawberry Facts\u00a0 [&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\/24119"}],"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=24119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}