Ventura County Farm Day - November 5

VENTURA, Calif. - Oct. 6, 2017 - PRLog -- On Saturday, November 4, more than 20 Ventura County farms will open their doors and invite the public to experience a day of agricultural activities and tours during the 5^th Annual Ventura County Farm Day.

Farm Day tour hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The public can go to www.VenturaCountyFarmDay.com, select two or three farms to visit and then map out their day. Farm Day visitors can travel at their own pace since they drive themselves to the farms they select. Each farm is unique, but all will feature a number of activities such as free produce, min-tours and food and beverage samplings.

Participating farms (http://venturacountyfarmday.com/farms.php), museums and farming operations include: Reiter Affiliated Companies at Santa Rosa Ranch, Houweling's Tomatoes and McGrath Family Farms in Camarillo, Apricot Lane Farms in Moorpark, Agromin (organics recycler), Deardorff Family Farms and Gills Onions in Oxnard, Calavo Growers in Santa Paula and Petty Ranch in Saticoy.

Farm Day Breakfast. Before heading off to the farms, the public is invited to a free light breakfast beginning at 8 a.m. at Whole Foods (http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/oxnard) located at The Collection in Oxnard. Visitors can pick up a Farm Day map and a goody bag from Whole Foods (while supplies last). Kids in attendance receive free book bags provided by First 5 Ventura County. There will also be a Farm Day story time for kids age five and under with stories read by a local farmer.

Lunch Break: Participants can pack a lunch or visit Oxnard Historic Farm Park, the official lunch location for Farm Day, where a taco truck will be selling lunch items. Also at the park will be games, a vintage printing press demonstration and tours of historic buildings and farm equipment.

Farm Day BBQ: The culmination of the day's activities is a farm-to-table barbecue at the Hansen Agricultural Center (http://harec.ucanr.edu/About_Us/) (Faulkner Farm) in Santa Paula from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The barbecue features live country music by Coldwater Canyon (https://www.reverbnation.com/coldwatercanyon), farm-fresh food prepared by Dearmore BBQ, locally produced craft cocktails, beers, and wines and kids' activities. A portion of the barbecue's proceeds will go to the Hansen's Agricultural Research & Extension Center's education and outreach programs. Barbecue tickets are $45 for adults and $15 for kids under 12.

Farm Film Festival, Friday, November 3: To get an early start to the Farm Day weekend, families are invited to attend the Farm Film Festival at the Ventura County Ag Museum in Santa Paula, Friday, November 3 beginning at 6 p.m. Farm-related short films will be shown along with "Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit." Admission is $5 per person (includes popcorn).

Ventura County Farm Day is organized by the nonprofit Students for Eco-Education and Agriculture (SEEAG). SEEAG's mission is to help children understand the farm origins of their food through classroom agricultural education and free farm field trips. "Ventura County Farm Day gives everyone, of every age, an up-close opportunity to see how our food is grown," says Mary Maranville, SEEAG's founder and CEO. "Our farmers do tremendous work to ensure we have food on our table. Farm Day also is our chance to give them our personal thanks."

For More About Farm Day: Go to www.venturacountyfarmday.com or call

805-901-0213.

About SEEAG

Founded in 2008, Students for Eco-Education and Agriculture (SEEAG) aims to help young students understand the origins of their food by bridging the gap between agriculture and consumption through its agricultural education programming. SEEAG's "The Farm Lab: The Journey of Our Food From Field to Fork" program based in Ventura County teaches school children about the origins of their food and the importance of local farmland by providing schools with classroom agricultural education and free field trips to farms. Through this program, over 15,000 elementary school students in Southern California have increased their understanding of the food journey. For more information, visit www.seeag.org or email Mary Maranville at mary@seeag.org.