Mellano Farm Stand, Oceanside CA

The corn maze is so fun. My son loved every minute of it. I’ll be going back. They do tractor rides have vendors come out and music. It’s a fun fall festival.

This is a great local farm with all kinds of fresh produce for sale. They also have fun festivals and amazing flower fields.

My favorite thing is their weekly bounty box - it is a box of whatever fruits, veggies, and flowers were fresh and bountiful that week from many local farms. It's such a fun way to eat locally grown fresh produce and also helps me try new things (we had fresh fava beans a few weeks in a row and I tried several new recipes because it's never cooked with them before!).

This is such a great place and even has weekend tractor rides, goats, and chickens.

Always have the best watermelon. They have different color watermelon, and they are always so fresh! Also went to the watermelon festival the other weekend, and it was cool that they hosted a free event, with live music. It was fun to get a watermelon lemonade, listen to the music, take a photo with the watermelon backdrop and buy some watermelon for later. Drove out the next weekend to buy more because it was so good!

We attended the Watermelon Festival on Sat, 7/15/23. The festival was very small. It was advertised like a big event. Live music was ok. The gentleman who was playing said his iPod was dying, he walked off stage. Not sure if he went back on. This could be a really big event. We thought.
1. Activities for kids. Happy kids, equals happy parents.
2. Maybe a kid train ride. Or a bouncy house?
3. Give out samples of watermelon.
4. The watermelon that is being sold, should BE COLD!
5. Watermelon eating contest
6. More food trucks
7. More seating.
This event definitely has the potential to be really great for the community. We were a little disappointed considering we drove for over two hours to get there in traffic.

We went to the Watermelon Festival 2023 and it was very overpriced.
You had to pay to go see the flowers and then pay even more to pick some (I get that part), but I had 2 small children with me who weren't handling the flower shears, but I still had to pay for them to walk around with me, even though I was the only one picking the flowers? Seems greedy to me.

The also had a Kids corner- $10 each, which was painting a small birdhouse. After being assured that the paint wash washable and would come out of their clothes, it did not.

Watermelon lemonade was good and you could buy some watermelons, but that felt like the only watermelon thing there for it being a whole watermelon festival.

Follow the rules! Once we were told the rules, then given a paper that had the rules we went and picked, while having someone go out and keep an eye on us the whole time. We were the only ones picking strawberries, mind you. After we finished, she told us if we ever went back, to make sure to follow the rules! Note: she never told us not to jump in between rows, which we did. I will not be returning after paying 40 dls for 4 small contrainers. Let me add that we were 4 adults. She took the fun out of a family outing.

My family and I went strawberry picking today. There were barely enough ripe berries to fill a small container! It was disappointing. They should wait until there are enough berries to sell picking.