OC Fair’s Olive Oil Competition winners have been announced!

The OC Fair is pleased to announce the 2019 Olive Oil Competition Award Winners and share the results at ocfair.com/results. Tres Osos was named Best of Show in the Extra Virgin Olive Oil division, and Molefina was named Best of show in the Flavored Olive Oil division.  There were 18 gold medalists and 14 silver […]

Happy Earth Day!

Today we celebrate Earth Day 🌎❤️  Here are just a few simple things you can do to help protect our Earth: 🌱 Cut your shower time by 2-5 minutes 🌱 Use LED lighting 🌱 Turn off the lights when you leave a room 🌱 Put electronics in sleep mode when not in use 🌱 Recycle your plastic bottles and aluminium cans […]

2019 OC Fair theme announced: ‘Acres of Fun’

COSTA MESA (Nov. 15, 2018) – The 2019 OC Fair theme celebrates the county’s agricultural roots and invites fairgoers to enjoy “Acres of Fun.” The theme was announced today for the 2019 OC Fair which will run July 12-Aug. 11. This is the third year of a three-year initiative to focus OC Fair themes on […]

2018 OC Fair breaks records and gives back to the community

COSTA MESA (Aug. 13, 2018) – The 128th OC Fair welcomed a record 1,470,636 guests who enjoyed 35 sold-out shows, ate hundreds of thousands of chocolate chip cookies and freed their inner farmers by greeting 11 new piglets at Centennial Farm.   “2018 was a banner year for the OC Fair in so many ways,” […]

VIDEO: Find out how to free your inner farmer at this year’s OC Fair

OC Fair & Event Center CEO Kathy Kramer made an appearance on Laguna Woods TV to share all the great stuff that we’re cooking up for the best party of the summer – and some of it isn’t even served on a stick! Fairgoers won’t want to miss My Fair Selfie, a pop-up palace of […]

Agriculture comes to OC Fair in a BIG way, thanks to artist John Cerney

Towering over guests at 16 feet tall, three gigantic murals celebrating three incredible farms will be hard to miss at each OC Fair entrance this year. Hand-painted by artist John Cerney and dubbed “Bounty of the County,” the murals focus on Orange County’s agricultural roots and truly speak to this year’s OC Fair theme, “Free […]

OC Fair food is crazier, more inventive than ever

It’s a once-a-year experience, something that can only happen at the Fair – a food frenzy beyond compare. The midway magicians in mini kitchens are cooking up inventions like donut-shaped spaghetti, caramel-drizzled fries and ice cream floats made for mermaids. All this and more will be served up when the OC Fair opens July 13 […]

80 experts judge more than 360 entries in the annual Homebrew Competition

The heat is on for the 2018 OC Fair competitions! Judging for the 31st annual Homebrew Competition was held May 19-20, and with 367 entries and 500 bottles of homebrew entered, the judges had plenty of beers, mead and ciders to sample. Under the guidance of the competition organizers and the Barley Bandits, all of […]