California Travel Tips
Festival Features Fresh Asparagus
Published on: April 11, 2016
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY ASPARAGUS FESTIVAL April 15-17, 2016
STOCKTON, CALIF. — Blame Carol and Tony Noceti for their determination to save the Asparagus Festival when it nearly vanished in 2015! The couple specializes in resurrecting things (such as the Stockton 99 Speedway renamed to The New Stockton 99 Speedway.) The Asparagus Festival with its famous deep-fried asparagus returns another year in the place where it belongs at San Joaquin County Fairgrounds in Stockton. The county grows the most asparagus of any place in the U.S.
ASPARAGUS TRIVIA
- Top 3 California Asparagus Counties: San Joaquin 42.2% | Fresno 28.6% | Monterey 27.4%
- Asparagus is planted in the ground three years before it can be harvested for the full season; the plant grows for 15 to 20 years.
- Short growing season February – June
- Watch it grow! Can grow 7″ in a day when the temperatures reach 90 degrees.
- #66 California farm commodity
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