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California State University Channel Islands in Camarillo is host this weekend, June 7, to the Casa Pacifica Angels Wine and Food Festival voted the “Best Cultural Event” in Ventura County in 2008 by the VC Reporter. 
This is one of the largest festival in Ventura County and showcases food from 75 area restaurants and caterers, wine from [...]

I wish I could tell you that the garden on the left is from our yard — no such luck or room.  Until our garden has more growth, I thought I’d use a photo we could aspire to. We used this past Memorial Day weekend to get our kitchen garden in the ground. 
Ventura County offers [...]

This is the weekend that Ventura County shows off its “stuff” —  STRAWBERRIES.
This weekend, May 16 and 17, is the California Strawberry Festival and promises to be jam packed with rides, shows, exhibits, presentations, strawberry pie eating contests, recipe contests, art contests and on and on.  The festival has grown each year since its beginnings in 1984.
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If you haven’t guessed by now, my partner, Greg Ricci, is Italian.  And I am a Southerner of German decent (who has lived half of my life in Ventura County).  What does this have to do with real estate?  Nothing.  But it does have to do with the 805Local “Food Finds.” 
With Greg being Italian and [...]

What will they think of next?  Yellow watermelon! 
On a recent trip to Underwood Farms in Somis we found yellow watermelon.  We were kind of reluctant to try it but so glad that we did.  We were told the watermelons were grown here in Ventura County. 
Yellow watermelon has great texture and taste.  Very crisp and clean.  When it is cut up and [...]

We could not let the weekend go by without telling about a new-found local treasure.  The name is Tifa and it is pure chocolate and gelato heaven!
Quite by accident we wondered into Tifa located 5013 Kanan Road (behind IHOP).  We had some time to kill between appointments.  Much to our surprise we were met by one of the [...]