Avocado Season in Carlsbad: A Taste of Our Hillside Farming Heritage
When Avocado Groves Covered the Hills Before many of Carlsbad’s neighborhoods climbed across the hillsides, those hills looked very different. Instead of rooftops, roads, and landscaped communities, you might have seen rows of avocado trees covering the slopes. Avocados became an important part of the agricultural story of Carlsbad and greater North County…
Agricultural Heritage Tour of Carlsbad: From Bean Fields to Flowers & Strawberries
Before Carlsbad Was a Beach Destination Before LEGOLAND, luxury resorts, golf courses, restaurants, and master-planned neighborhoods, much of Carlsbad was farmland. Fields stretched across hillsides that are covered with homes today. Families grew beans, flowers, strawberries, avocados, citrus, and other crops in Carlsbad’s mild coastal climate. Generations of farmers, farmworkers, and agricultural families helped create…