After a breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon and coffee we got on the bus and went to Sun Growers, a cut flower operation. It was amazing to see the flowers bundled into bouquets for sale by Trader Joe, Costco, HB Foods in Tx and other large wholesale customers. We toured the greenhouses and refrigerated rooms. Next stop was Mission Avocodo packers. We saw the entire process from large crates to hydro washing, sorting and grating and packing including their newest line, a bagging machine where they were packing net bags of avocados. We next went to the construction site of their new consolidated facility. The young man leading us was the VP of engineering and was quite good. Lunch was at a small cafe in an old Woolworths building which has been preserved as historic complete with a little Woolworths museum of memorabilia.
For the afternoon we had a downtown walking tour of Ventura with the local historian. He was pretty good but I was tired. Dinner tonight was a meatloaf buffet. After dinner we had the director of the Ventura County Ag museum give us a talk on the museum. He was OK but mostly read from his notes and used pictures to illustrate some of the history.