{"id":22435,"date":"2016-04-11T22:35:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T05:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22435"},"modified":"2016-04-11T22:35:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T05:35:11","slug":"asparagus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/asparagus\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Features Fresh Asparagus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/aspargus.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY ASPARAGUS FESTIVAL April 15-17, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>STOCKTON, CALIF. &#8212; Blame Carol and Tony Noceti for their determination to save the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/stockton-asparagus-festival.html\">Asparagus Festival<\/a>\u00a0when it nearly vanished in 2015! The couple specializes in resurrecting things (such as the Stockton 99 Speedway renamed to The New Stockton 99 Speedway.)\u00a0The\u00a0Asparagus Festival with its famous deep-fried asparagus returns another year in the place where it belongs\u00a0at San Joaquin County Fairgrounds in Stockton.\u00a0The county\u00a0grows the most asparagus of any place in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ASPARAGUS TRIVIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Top 3 California Asparagus Counties:\u00a0San Joaquin 42.2% |\u00a0Fresno 28.6% \u00a0|\u00a0Monterey 27.4%<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Short growing season February &#8211; June<\/li>\n<li>Watch it grow! Can grow\u00a07&#8243; in a day when the temperatures reach 90 degrees.<\/li>\n<li>#66 California farm commodity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY ASPARAGUS FESTIVAL April 15-17, 2016 STOCKTON, CALIF. &#8212; Blame Carol and Tony Noceti for their determination to save the Asparagus Festival\u00a0when it nearly vanished in 2015! The couple specializes in resurrecting things (such as the Stockton 99 Speedway renamed to The New Stockton 99 Speedway.)\u00a0The\u00a0Asparagus Festival with its famous deep-fried asparagus returns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}