Knott’s Berry Farm imports 300,000 pounds of boysenberries every year from Chile, New Zealand and Oregon to feed festival-goers who feast on more than 80 food and beverage items at the annual Boysenberry Festival menu.
The 2024 Boysenberry Fest will run daily from March 8 through April 7 and Friday through Sunday from April 12 through April 28 at Knott’s Berry Farm.
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Knott’s Berry Farm Vice President of Food & Beverage Laura Brubaker never stops thinking about boysenberry.
The boysenberry possibilities were seemingly endless when Brubaker attended the annual Las Vegas food show.
“You walk down the aisles and you’re like, ‘Oh, I can put boysenberry in the middle of that,’” Brubaker said during an online video interview.
During a recent girls weekend, Brubaker’s friends offered to help her brainstorm and started firing off Boysenberry Festival ideas.
“They said, ‘Did you try this or that?’” Brubaker recalled with a laugh. “I said, ‘Yup, we’ve done that.’”
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Brubaker thinks about boysenberries in the shower and even dreams about the berry that started it all at Knott’s Berry Farm.
“Trust me, I could find a way to instill boysenberry in anything,” Brubaker said.
Brubaker will start planning next year’s Boysenberry Festival during this year’s event. She’s already got five items for the 2025 menu — mostly things that couldn’t be produced in time for 2024.
“You can’t start from scratch,” Brubaker said. “It’s too hard.”
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The Boysenberry Festival has grown from about 15 items in 2018 to more than 80 items this year — which may be the limit.
“This is probably a good number for me,” Brubaker said.
Over the years, Brubaker has tried to add variety to the boysenberry…
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