{"id":25833,"date":"2019-03-14T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25833"},"modified":"2019-03-14T14:36:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:36:43","slug":"california-big-strawberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-big-strawberries\/","title":{"rendered":"California Strawberries are a Berry Big Deal"},"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>A highlight of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-maria-strawberry-festival.html\">Santa Maria Valley Strawberry Festival<\/a> (pictured) is the delicious strawberry shortcake with whipped cream. Among the many attractions at this annual event at Fairpark are contests and games, a carnival with exciting rides and entertainment that includes musical acts and lots of clowning around. \u00a0Look at those strawberries as big as the palm of your hand &#8212; WOW!<\/p>\n<p>I have an affinity for strawberries. My father has always had a green thumb when it comes to growing them, but he also was in charge of the world&#8217;s largest air shipments to other countries at his job in Los Angeles. California is the world leader in growing and shipping strawberries, thanks to its beautiful weather and year-round growing season.<\/p>\n<p>Among the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-strawberries.html\">strawberry fast facts<\/a> to chomp on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>California&#8217;s climate offers 12 months per year of strawberry growing.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a 500-mile growing region in the state.<\/li>\n<li>California produces over 91% of the U.S. crop.<\/li>\n<li>The United States exports around 250-275 million pounds of fresh strawberries each year, mostly from California.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are you berry excited about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-strawberry-festivals.html\">California strawberry festivals<\/a>?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SANTA MARIA:\u00a0Strawberry Festival\u00a0April 26-28, 2019 is one of the first California strawberry festivals of the year. The Central Coast happens to also be the premier growing region for strawberries.<\/li>\n<li>ARROYO GRANDE: Arroyo Grande Strawberry Festival May 25-26<\/li>\n<li>GARDEN GROVE: Garden Grove Strawberry Festival May 24-27<\/li>\n<li>VISTA: Vista Strawberry Festival May 26<\/li>\n<li>OXNARD: California Strawberry Festival May 18-19<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Balboa Strawberry Festival has no date set as of yet for 2019. It&#8217;s typically been held in June.<\/li>\n<li>ROSEVILLE: BerryFest Strawberry Festival May 11-12<\/li>\n<li>WATSONVILLE: Watsonville Strawberry Festival August 3-4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highlight of Santa Maria Valley Strawberry Festival (pictured) is the delicious strawberry shortcake with whipped cream. Among the many attractions at this annual event at Fairpark are contests and games, a carnival with exciting rides and entertainment that includes musical acts and lots of clowning around. \u00a0Look at those strawberries as big as the [&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\/25833"}],"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=25833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25835,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25833\/revisions\/25835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}