Strawberry Fields

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…