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…
The Bean Fields That Helped Build Carlsbad
Long before golf courses, resorts, and neighborhoods spread across Carlsbad, the landscape looked very different. Rolling hills overlooking the Pacific were covered with fields of beans that stretched as far as the eye could see. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, agriculture became the backbone of Carlsbad’s economy. The area’s mild Mediterranean climate, fertile…