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    Just love Centennial Farm. The animals are the sweetest. All the new babies are adorable

    Lili K.

    A free farm with an expansive vegetable garden and animals to pet?! Oh, and free parking?! Love it!!

    Dec 2024
    Elle F.

    Centennial Farm is perfect for fun family outings! Located at the OC Fair Grounds. Plenty of parking. The staff and volunteers are really nice. Lots of farm animals to see; oxen, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, bunnies. Many of them you can pet. I strongly recommend encouraging kids who have been around farm animals to be gentle and quiet if they want the animals to be calm and not run away from them. There are multiple hand washing stations. Super cute aesthetic!

    3.20.23
    Mimi J.

    How i never knew about this Farm located inside the Oc Fairgrounds. I know they had it during OC Fair. Pretty cool free farm entrance. If i have known sooner. I'd bring the kids here sooner. We were able to do a free radish potting w educational staffs teaching us. They have chickens, sheeps, pigs & cows to name a few farm animals to view & learn about. Flowers and fruits planted here. Big Millennium Red Barn to check out and learn. When we went, it was on a rainy day. There was a lot of students there also having a field trip. So it's still open on rainy days. Parking is free. Highly recommended to visit with your kids or play date.

    Petting a cow.
    Steve W.

    This is wonderful place to take kids to explore how a farm works, plus so much more. A popular place for school field trips, it can be a bit crowded on certain days, with long lines for some attractions-- like petting chicks or seeing baby pigs. We were lucky to experience a lot of fascinating exhibits, including the handwork weaving, beekeeping, and our favorite, the oxen. When we went it was a self-guided event, so you could choose what to visit and when, with experts explaining things. We really enjoyed petting the goats, sheep, pigs, cows, and chicks. Their garden was filled with a large variety of fruits and vegetables, and you could take home a radish to plant. There's a picnic area or a lawn to hang out in, with goats and llamas grazing on a nearby hill. We zipped through in a couple of hours, but could have stayed longer.

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    Luke L.

    Our party came for the 41st UVSA Tet Festival and noticed this little farm at the OC Fair & Event Center. Please check the Centennial Farm Calendar for opening hours (currently 1 PM to 4 PM on Monday to Friday & 10 AM to 4 PM on Saturday and Sunday). [Admission]: No charge for admission & reservation not required. Our party was able to talk into the farm and I didn't see any staff during my short 15-minute visit. [Parking]: No charge for parking and available through Gate 1 off of Fair Drive in Costa Mesa & park in Lot B (adjacent to Centennial Farm and Heroes Hall); however I did pay $12 for the event parking (for the Tet Festival) so I am not sure whether free parking is still available when there's an event going on. [Animals]: Our party saw plenty of pigs, sheep, and cows. There's a sign asking visitors to wash hands after any animal or pen contact. Lots of exciting actions going on from sheep eating grass, pigs drinking water, and excited kids. It's a cute little farm and a great place to take your kids to.

    My wife and son exploring the crops
    Anthony A.

    Such a cute little place. I came here with my family and my 2 year old daughter loved this place. She had so much fun seeing the bunnies and goats and especially the big pigs. It was warm but nothing crazy. We were able to go through in probably 30ish minutes. And the best thing is it's free to the public! Can't beat that.

    Just me and some cool cat 1st graders at a farm... 1/14/20
    Jenni M.

    ***a place for all them city folk to learn about farm life*** On January 14, 2020, I had the opportunity to travel as a volunteer chaperone with my daughter's first grade class to Centennial Farm in Costa Mesa, California. This place is a bonafide, three-acre working farm in the heart of SoCal! Yeehaw, y'all! First rule of order - ALLERGY MEDICINE. Even after growing up on a farm, I never could get over hay fever quickly without medicinal help. It's better to be safe than sorry. Second, bring comfortable walking shoes that you're okay with getting scuffed up and possibly a little dirty. After all, it is a farm. I'm not sure how reservations were made for our four classrooms, but I do know they were made far in advance. There were tons of other tour groups too. The docents run a tight schedule. Our groups ate our sack lunches from home at picnic tables near the restrooms before our tour. Reasonably clean, well-stocked restrooms with plenty of stalls and sinks - some with the steps for smaller kiddos. We saw SO many animals - sheep, cows, bulls, oxen, goats, pigs, donkeys, chickens, roosters, rabbits, geese, but sadly - no baby chicks. The kiddos learned a little about milking cows.... the various stages of an unhatched chicken in an egg... and how oxen help around the farm. The students also planted their own radish seeds to take home! Our volunteer docent was nice and friendly. I just wish we would have had a bit more time learning about all of the fruits and vegetables. All of this was free to my knowledge, however, we did donate a dollar (as suggested by our first grade teachers) to help the farm out a little.

    Rebekah S.

    I went with one of my kid's classes for a field trip. As far as I could tell it was a great field trip and a good experience for the kids. They have chickens, cows, pigs, goats and sheep. They are a working farm so they have some sales of produce and things. The people there seemed pretty nice but kinda just going through the motions because they do basically the same thing over and over and over for kids year after year. For a one-time visit though, I'd say it was pretty fun and just enough to see and do. The OC Fair is also held here and other events so the parking is massive. The fair was pretty fun but like most fairs, I would only really go once because they are overpriced for everything. There WAS at least one day that veterans could go for reduced or free though, so that was nice.

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    Was just here today, with one of the babies I nanny and we loved it! Free and he got to see all the animals. It's great fun for kids!

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    The oxen are really a sight to see, and I loved that the farm had them because they're exclusive to Asia!

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