{"id":23895,"date":"2017-02-06T23:50:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T07:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23895"},"modified":"2017-02-06T23:50:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T07:50:38","slug":"carrot-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/carrot-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating California&#8217;s Carrot Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/4thrwood.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HOLTVILLE, CALIFORNIA &#8212; You can almost taste the freshly-baked carrot cake, a favorite at\u00a0the Carrot Festival Cookery Contest\u00a0during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/holtville-carrot-festival.html\">Holtville Carrot Festival<\/a>\u00a0Feb.6-12, 2017. In addition to festival floats decorated in carrot themes on Saturday, there&#8217;s a Carrot Run, midway carnival, arts &amp; crafts festival and live entertainment with headliner Tim Hurley &amp; Coastal Country.<\/p>\n<p>Never been to The Carrot Capital of the World? If there&#8217;s a time to visit, this is\u00a0it!\u00a0Located in Imperial County 10 miles from Mexicali, Mexico (as the crow flies,) daytime temperatures during the fest are expected to range between 72 and\u00a084 degrees.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/carrots.html\">Carrots in California<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>California produces\u00a085% of fresh market carrots in U.S.<\/li>\n<li>Four growing regions.<\/li>\n<li>Imperial County produce over 20% of carrots nationally.<\/li>\n<li>Carrots contain vitamins A,\u00a0B6, C &amp;\u00a0K, folate, manganese, pantothenic acid, iron, potassium and copper.<\/li>\n<li>Carrots may help fight some forms of cancer, protect against stroke &amp; heart disease.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLTVILLE, CALIFORNIA &#8212; You can almost taste the freshly-baked carrot cake, a favorite at\u00a0the Carrot Festival Cookery Contest\u00a0during Holtville Carrot Festival\u00a0Feb.6-12, 2017. In addition to festival floats decorated in carrot themes on Saturday, there&#8217;s a Carrot Run, midway carnival, arts &amp; crafts festival and live entertainment with headliner Tim Hurley &amp; Coastal Country. Never been [&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\/23895"}],"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=23895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}