FOR BERRY LOVERS, IT'S RIPE TIME TO VISIT OXNARD.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer The self-proclaimed strawberry capital of the state will pay homage to its favorite fruit Saturday and Sunday during the 13th annual California Strawberry Festival A Strawberry Festival is an event and celebration in many towns in North America. In most instances, areas around these towns are, or have been, deeply involved in the production and marketing of strawberries, and the festivals are usually held in late spring around the time of the . Festival chairman Don DeArmond said this season's warm, mild winter and light rainfall total created ideal growing conditions between the planting season in October and the peak spring harvest Spring Harvest is an inter-denominational Christian conference and gathering in the United Kingdom. Its "Main Event" takes place annually at the Butlins resorts in Skegness and Minehead over Easter. Attendance at the 2005 Spring Harvest was around 55,000. . In Oxnard, 4,800 acres are used to cultivate the crop. ``One of the reasons that strawberries grow so well in the Oxnard Plain The Oxnard Plain is a large coastal plain in southwest Ventura County, California bounded by the Santa Monica Mountains, the Santa Susana Mountains, and Oak Ridge (beyond which lies the Conejo Valley) to the east, the Topatopa Mountains to the north, the Santa Clara River Valley is the proximity to the Pacific Ocean. We get that fog and morning low clouds that keep the temperature cool,'' DeArmond said. ``And our valley is very fertile.'' Two dozen Oxnard companies harvest, cool, pack and ship 130,000 tons of strawberries annually - more than one-fifth of California's crop - selling them across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Germany and Japan, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. festival spokeswoman Lisa Carey. This year's event, which will be held at College Park - just north of Oxnard College - will feature concerts by Eddie Money, The Rembrandts and Billy Vera & The Beaters. Although the National Weather Service predicted up to a quarter-inch of rain would fall today in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, forecasters said the brief storm would give way to sunny skies for Friday and the weekend, said meteorologist Robert Burke. ``It's a fairly quick-moving system. It's going to be more of the showery type - nothing steady,'' Burke said. College Park is at 3250 S. Rose Ave. Visitors from the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. can exit off the Ventura Freeway at the Las Posas Road, Del Norte Boulevard or Rice Avenue exits and simply follow the signs. Gates will open at 10 a.m. each day; admission is $6 for adults, $4 for senior citizens and children ages 2 to 12, and parking is free. |
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