Having a Blast at a Saca-Banana Fest
If it’s August, think “bananas” in Sacramento. The annual Sacramento Banana Festival includes food and fun contests — limbo & banana pie eating. It’s just one of the many festivals in August designed to attract the fan-base as well as celebrate fruit & vegetables.
August Fruit & Vegetable Festivals
- LA HABRA: Corn Festival, August 4-6, 2017
- CHULA VISTA: Lemon Festival August 6
- SACRAMENTO: Banana Festival Aug 12-13
- WOODLAND: Woodland Tomato Festival August 12
- SEBASTOPOL: Gravenstein Apple Fair August 12-13
- CARMICHAEL: Carmichael Park Farmers Market Peach Festival August 13
- COVELO: Round Valley Blackberry Festival August 19-20
- HUNTINGTON BEACH: Plum Festival August 20
- FAIRFIELD: Tomato Festival August 19-20
- HAYWARD: Zucchini Festival August 19-20
Are fruits & vegetables healthy for you? Best advice to date — buy organic!
While we often cite the positve health benefits of fruits & veggies, there may be a down side. Some are genetically modified to enhance farmer yields through absorption of Monsanto’s Roundup weed & bug killer. The State of California on July 7, 2017 enacted a law requiring retailers in the state to add cancer warning labels to glyphosate (a key ingredient in Roundup) products. Unfortunately, cancer warnings will not be required on foods sprayed with glyphosate or grocery products saturated with the cancer-causing herbicide. Many non-GMO crops such as wheat and barley are currently sprayed with glyphosate to speed their drying in the fields before harvest. This means that glyphosate contamination is now commonly found even on crops that are not genetically engineered, and it is now a common contaminant in non-organic wheat products such as cereals, breads and muffins.
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