Stop by this Ventura County Historical Landmark (#165) and view a vintage letterpress; enjoy a blacksmith demonstration, live music, a history slide show, kids’ crafts and a bite to eat!

What to Expect: Visitors will get to explore our one-acre historic location that features antique tractors, vintage equipment, and sample crops that showcase the agricultural heritage of the Oxnard plains. Bring the whole family and enjoy a kids’ craft table, food trucks, rich history displays/books, and live music by Brandon Burns in the morning and Milo Sledge in the afternoon. This year we are featuring recently released local history book, Ventura County Lima Beans, A History, written by our Director and founder of the Farm Park, Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt. To enhance your lima bean experience, we will be offering 2 pound bags for sell of locally grown lima beans as well as a slide show of 150 years of Lima Bean history.

About Oxnard Historic Farm Park: Home to the two oldest buildings on the Oxnard Plain, the 1869 Residence/Winery and the 1870 farmhouse built by Gottfried Maulhardt. plus a towering 1800s Canary Island Date Palm, an 1890s Carriage House, an 1880s spring wagon that once belonged to Johannes Borchard, two vineyards of Zinfandel grapes of cuttings from Santa Cruz Island that date back to the 1880s, two early 1900 lima bean threshers built by the Ventura Manufacturing Implement Company, 9 vintage tractors, plows and other farm implements, a lemon orchard, an avocado grove, and five historically representative gardens…oh, and that doesn’t even account for our numerous exhibitions of historic photos, and farm implements that show the evolution of farming in the Oxnard Plain over the past three centuries!