The 2025 OC Fair
The OC chapter of CRFG will once again have an outreach booth at the OC Fair. This is a great experience for all members to participate in. You get to meet eager fair goers and talk to them about all the wonderful fruit we can grow here in Southern California.
Don't think, "I don't know enough or have enough experience to talk to strangers about growing fruit!". We want to staff 2 people per shift so that you can always ask your fellow members questions if you don't know the answer. This is a great learning experience as well as a great way to meet OC CRFG club members you may not already know.
We still have our beloved, naturally air-cooled location in the Centennial Farm. The booth will have a display of many interesting and unusual fruits grown locally and donated by our members as well as a few tropical fruit purchased locally. In previous years we had sugar cane, coffee berries, passion fruit, Buddha's Hand citron, mamey sapote, lychee, Monstera fruit, many varieties of avocado, jackfruit, rambutan, mangosteen and many others.
The Fair runs from Friday July 18 to Sunday August 17. Our booth is open from 11 am to 9 pm Wednesdays and Thursdays and 11 am to 10 pm Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. There are three shifts each day. Each shift is either 3 1/2 or 4 hours long.
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The booth's fruit displays inspired lots of great questions from our visitors 
These posters were beautifully reframed last year by member Lorenzo Floreani
The booth was decorated with many plants on loan from members as well as locally grown fruit such as this Monstera deliciousa and passion fruit 
We hope to see you all at the fair this year!