Fallbrook Avocado Festival: Sunday, April 15th

When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Main Avenue from West Beech Street to West Mission Road

For more information: Call 760-728-5845 or visit FallbrookChamberOfCommerce.org

Fallbrook, California is the avocado capital of the world, where more avocados are grown there than anywhere else in the United States. The Annual Avocado Festival benefits the community of Fallbrook in so many ways. The main benefit is showcasing Fallbrook’s heritage as an agricultural community, which is most visible at the Fallbrook Historical Museum and the Gem & Mineral Museum. The festival also provides an opportunity for entertainment and brings large numbers of visitors to the town who will one day return to shop, sight-see, and spend some time there making this festival a significant economic benefit to local businesses and community groups.

You will learn the central role that the avocado plays in our lives which is evident in the Festival’s Farmers Market, Agricultural Area, Avocado Culinary Demonstrations, the Largest Avocado Contest, Guacamole Contest, Avocado Ice Cream, Holy Guaca-Moly, the Art of the Avocado Contest, the Avo 500 Children’s Car Race, and the Best Decorated Avocado Contest. A wide variety of agricultural displays are also found all along the Festival streets. If you love avocados and think that guacamole is the only use for it, come enjoy a fun-filled day where I can promise that you will find another use (many uses for that matter) for the avocado.

The festival isn’t all about avocados! Colorful booths line Main and Alvarado Street featuring unique clothing, hats, arts, crafts, jewelry, and farm-fresh produce for purchase. A variety of bands and other live entertainment are offered for festival-goers, as well as beer gardens and numerous food vendors to cater to anyone’s appetite. The festival was introduced over 20 years ago as a way to promote the local crop and introduce it to people who may be unfamiliar with the fruit. Since the 1960’s, tens of thousands of avocado lovers come together in Fallbrook every year and it continues to grow.

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