{"id":25897,"date":"2019-04-09T13:31:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25897"},"modified":"2019-04-09T13:31:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:31:42","slug":"asparagus-pizza-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/asparagus-pizza-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Asparagus, Pizza and Asparagus Pizza at Central Valley Food Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/aspara.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>California, the nation&#8217;s top grower of asparagus, is home to San Joaquin Asparagus Festival April 12-14, 2019 at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds in Stockton. While Asparagus Pizza is on the menu at this event, you can alternately head for Lemoore&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/lemoore-pizza-festival.html\">Central Valley Pizza Festival<\/a> April 12-14 at Lemoore City Park where pizza is the main dish. Ideally situated in California&#8217;s Central Valley, the festivals are approx. 155 miles distance from each other.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/stockton-asparagus-festival.html\">San Joaquin Asparagus Fest<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>For asparagus fans, this annual food event is not to be believed! It features Asparagus Alley serving up outrageous asparagus drinks &amp; dishes such as: Asparagus Margaritas, Asparagus Corn Dogs, Asparagus Fried Rice &amp; LoMein, Asparagus Nacho, Asparagus Chili Cheese Fries and even Mac &amp; Cheese with Asparagus! Guests can eat their way down the Alley trying out dozens of unique concoctions made with one of the Central Valley&#8217;s great vegetable crops.<\/p>\n<p>Sprint Car Races, Monster Trucks, a carnival, concerts with band such as Pablo Cruise and Parmalee, cooking demonstrations, and a fairground full of things to see and do are on the plate for this lively, annual celebration.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/asparagus.html\">California Asparagus<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>250 asparagus growers in California (approx.)<\/li>\n<li>41% decrease in asparagus production 2017-2018 from prior years<\/li>\n<li>Mid-February through June growing season<\/li>\n<li>Nearly 50% decrease in acreage for growing \u00a0from 15,000 acres in 2008 to 8,000 in 2018<\/li>\n<li>Asparagus was introduced to the U.S. around the time California became a state in 1850<\/li>\n<li>1852 asparagus first planted in California<\/li>\n<li>California&#8217;s total value of asparagus (crops) has dropped from close to $52.6 million in 2008, to $16.3 million in 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California, the nation&#8217;s top grower of asparagus, is home to San Joaquin Asparagus Festival April 12-14, 2019 at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds in Stockton. While Asparagus Pizza is on the menu at this event, you can alternately head for Lemoore&#8217;s Central Valley Pizza Festival April 12-14 at Lemoore City Park where pizza is the [&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\/25897"}],"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=25897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25898,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25897\/revisions\/25898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}