{"id":23093,"date":"2016-08-29T07:28:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T14:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23093"},"modified":"2016-08-29T07:28:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T14:28:52","slug":"california-tomato-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-tomato-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomato Time in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/tomotoa.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s Labor Day the chances are pretty good that tomatoes are available and in demand. Pictured is Ingomar Packing, one of the biggest tomato processing companies in the Central Valley \/ Los Banos area. A typical tomato truck holds 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, which is about 300,000 tomatoes. California is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/tomatoes.html\">nation&#8217;s largest producer of processed tomatoes<\/a>, accounting for 96% of U.S. output and one-third of the fresh crop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-tomato-festivals.html\">Tomato Festivals 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AMADOR CITY: Amador City Tomato Festival September 3<\/li>\n<li>SANTA ROSA: Tomato Festival September 10<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco Bloody Mary Festival September 18<\/li>\n<li>OJAI: Boccali Vineyard &amp; Winery Tomato Festival &amp; Wine Tasting September 17<\/li>\n<li>WINDSOR: Windsor Tomato &amp; Pepper Fest September 18<\/li>\n<li>FULTON: Kendall-Jackson Heirloom Tomato Festival September 24<\/li>\n<li>LOS BANOS: Los Banos Tomato Festival October 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s Labor Day the chances are pretty good that tomatoes are available and in demand. Pictured is Ingomar Packing, one of the biggest tomato processing companies in the Central Valley \/ Los Banos area. A typical tomato truck holds 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, which is about 300,000 tomatoes. California is the\u00a0nation&#8217;s largest producer of [&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\/23093"}],"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=23093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}