The avocado festival is one of my favorite festivals of the year. Everything is avocado every where! The one thing I was skeptical was the avocado ice cream but it tried it and it was the most delicious ice cream. Every where you go at the festival they have some avocado invention and great recipes. If you think you can only make guacamole with avocado this festival is going to leave you perplexed with all the different ways you can use avocado. This event is great for families, there is many diferent things going on besides the show of the feature item. There is face painting, contest of some source, coloring for children, rides and many other fun activities. Is close to the beach and campsites so if you want to be close to the event get your campsite ready this way you don't have to drive back home if you have a couple of avocado...
Read moreI love the avocado festival! I try to go every year. It's lots of fun to stroll around and look at everything and people watch. Lots of cool things to buy from colorful clothes to wooden signs to a variety of jewelry to metal sculptures and lotions and soaps. And the food of course is amazing. You can buy pretty much every kind of avocado there is and then any kind of food that can be made with them! Avocado bread, avocado ice cream, avocado cookies and guacamole of course! Lots of foods with avocado on top. Also churros and funnel cake and delicious salts and oils and vinegars. So many samples to try! There's a ferris wheel and other...
Read moreThe avacado festival in carpinteria is the one time a year huge celebration of the city's main produce other then flowers. The festival takes up about 2 city blocks and one block is regulated for drinking and food vendors and the other side is for arts and vendors. It's decreased in size over the years it's been there and has become more commeralized but over all its a good stop if you want to enjoy. The only real bad part is it gets significantly crowded in the food and drinking part of the festival and when night rolls around its not to safe for the kids. But overall it's a pretty...
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