Without the Strawberry Festival, events planned in Ponchatoula Saturday aimed at supporting sales for local farms Strawberry events planned in Ponchatoula on Saturday to support farmers (Source: Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival) By Jesse Brooks | April 9, 2021 at 8:13 PM CDT - Updated April 9 at 8:18 PM PONCHATOULA, La. (WVUE) - Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Louisiana strawberry industry has been hit hard, but the Ponchatoula community is stepping up this weekend to plan events to help local farms sell their products. Every year, farmers in Southeast Louisiana rely on the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival to sell a majority of their seasonal berry crop. However, the community is going without the event, which was previously scheduled for this weekend, for the second year in a row.