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19th Annual Tomato Festival & West Coast Barbeque Championship!

A Fun Filled Family Event!

August 14, 2010
Saturday 10 am - 5:00 pm
August 15, 2010
Sunday 11 am - 4:00 pm


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FDA's Tomato Festival earns group state award


Fairfield Downtown Association Board Chair Thomas Randall (Second Time Around) accepting the Crystal Eagle Award from California Downtown Association Board member Craig Smith.

Tomato Festival earns group state award FAIRFIELD σ According to one statewide group, the Fairfield Downtown Association is the big tomato when it comes to putting on a festival.

The California Downtown Association recently awarded the Fairfield group its Crystal Eagle Achievement Award for the annual Tomato Festival.

In awarding the honor Oct. 3, the award committee chairman, Craig Smith, praised the Fairfield group for sticking with the 17-year-old festival despite numerous challenges, including one year with no tomatoes for the tomato festival.

About 50,000 people attended the 2008 Fairfield Tomato Festival, which expanded from one to two days this year, a press release stated.
From Daily Republic article 10/19/08.
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Texas Street
from Pennsylvania Avenue to Union Street
Downtown Fairfield
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ο Daily Republic Article 02/23/08

The Tomato festival draws over 45,000 people of all ages. This celebration of Solano County's agricultural heritage features Tomato Alley where more than 50 varieties of heirloom tomatoes and gourmet tomato products can be sampled and purchased.

Nearly 200 craft and commercial vendors attend, and live music fills two stages.

The
"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" film is shown with free admission at Pepper Belly's Comedy and Variety Theater.



TOMATO FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES
ο FREE kids activities galore
ο Gourmet tomato products to sample and buy
ο Nearly 200 craft and commercial Vendors
ο Farmers Market with fresh produce and fruit
ο More than 50 heirloom tomatoes to taste and buy
ο Tomato eating contest - CASH PRIZES
ο Tomato tasting, gourmet products


FREE Children's Entertainment/Activities
ο Commercial Rides
ο Hands on Arts and Crafts


Crafts Show & Vendors
ο Arts and Crafts Vendors on Texas Street from Madison to Jefferson
ο Food Court at Texas and Madison Streets
ο Beer and Wine-adjacent to stage area




Tomato Festival Results
"The Tomato Festival was a huge success. The website was a huge part of that. We had a woman come from Chico, and she used our site to plan her trip!"
Emily Low Fairfield Downtown Association - Main Street Program Coordinator 8/15/03 10:12am



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Pronunciation: ta - maa - toe; chiefly British, eastern New England, northeastern Virginia, and sometimes elsewhere in cultivated speech -'m[a']- or -'mœ-; chiefly Northern -'ma-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -toes
Etymology: alteration of earlier tomate, from Spanish, from Nahuatl tomatl Date: 1604
1 : the usually large rounded typically red or yellow pulpy berry of a tomato
2 : any of a genus (Lycopersicon) of So. American herbs of the nightshade family; especially : one (L. lycopersicum syn. L. esculentum) that is more or less perennial in its native habitat but is widely cultivated as an annual for its edible fruit
3 : any fruit of the numerous cultivated varieties of Lycopersicon esculentum, a plant of the nightshade family (Solanaceae); also, the fruit of L. pimpinelli folium, the tiny currant tomato.

For more info on the web about tomatoes:
Do a search on google or webster

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Tomato Festival articles
from the Daily Republic Newspaper.
Access free for Daily Republlic subscribers:

2008

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2007

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2005


Fairfield tastes a multitude of tomatoes

2005/08/14

High energy--Special Request to get the booty moving at Tomato Festival
2005/08/12

Tomato Festival events fill toss void
2005/08/09

The truth behind tomatoes that scientists don't want you to know Brad Stanhope, always humorous, take on tomatoes
2005/08/07

Maytag squashes Great Tomato Toss
2005/07/28

Tomato festival ads sloppy twist this year
2005/07/04

Food, family and fun in Fairfield

2005/03/11




Tomato

Official Site of the California Tomato Commission
The home page of the California fresh market tomato industry, with consumer information including recipes, nutrition, and fun facts! ...


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Our Tomato Festival on TV!
ο Schedule of Events
Tomato Cookbook – Help Support CORE
ο Tomato Resource and Facts
Trot Tomato Trot in Fairfield
West Coast BBQ Championship




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West Coast 6th Annual BBQ Championship



The
West Coast Barbeque joins the Festival again. The California BBQ Association will bring 30 cooking teams together for the BBQ cookoff at Jefferson and Texas Streets. Sampling booths available. For more info and entry forms: www.westcoastbbqchampionships.com



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Trot - Join the 1st Annual Fairfield Tomato Trot
Saturday August 16, 9am

Everyone is invited to participate in the 1st Annual Tomato Trot on August 16, 2008. This one mile family friendly walk begins promptly at 9am and will benefit the CORE Partners, six deserving non-profits. Registration begins at 8am and the first 50 people will receive an awesome Tomato Festival Tee-shirt. Cost is $10 per person, $5 for kids 16 years and younger. Registration is FREE for adults who wear a military uniform and to people of all ages if they wear their scout uniform. Come early for the Tomato Trot and stay for the Tomato Festival.
TomatoTrotFlyer.pdf
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Please see the ads of the 6 Non-profit CORE partners (6 pg pdf 238 kb) 073108

Tomato Cookbook
Recipes - Mr. Tomato Head
– Help Support CORE


While enjoying the Fairfield Tomato Festival, be sure to pick up a copy of Mr. Tomato Head's Favorite Recipes. This cookbook is a community effort to raise funds for the CORE Partners, six deserving non-profits who work with families in need in Fairfield. Cost is $10 per book, $15 for two, and $20 for three. You'll find the cookbook at Mr. Tomato Head's booth, right in Tomato Alley on Texas St. Buy one for you; buy several for your family. All proceeds benefit the CORE Partners, which include the Children's Nurturing Project, Court Appointed Special Advocates of Solano County, Heather House Emergency and Transitional Shelter, and Meals on Wheels of Solano County, Mission Solano Rescue Mission and the Solano Community Foundation.

TomatoCookbookFlyer.pdf
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Cookbook Sponsors:
Meyer
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Please see the ads of the 6 Non-profit CORE partners
(6 pg pdf 238 kb) 073108

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Tomato Festival Greeting
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Send a Free Online Greeting Card to your friends & loved ones. ALL cards are absolutely FREE !!! Tomato Festival is the right time for you to 'ketchup' with some cool fun with your friends and loved ones. So go ahead and paint the town red with our yummy, tangy and simply 'soup-erb' wishes.
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Fairfield Tomato Festival Receives National Air Time On The Travel Channel!



Stay tuned and watch on the Travel Channel "Taste of America" featuring the Fairfield Tomato Festival.

• Ch. 71 Comcast Fairfield & Suisun
Wed. May 28, 2008 8:00pm
Wed. June 4, 2008 8:30pm


Comcast:
Fairfield - Ch 71 - 8:00 pm
Direct TV:
Fairfield - Ch 277 - 11:00 pm
Dish Network:
Fairfield - Ch 215 - either 8:00 pm or 11:00 pm





"This is huge for us" said Emily Low, Main Street program coordinator for the city of Fairfield. "They did a lot of filming." ...with the national exposure, she hopes to draw more people from all over California and the United States.

Taste of America with Mark Decarlo (Season 4)
Bourbon, Calas, Tomato Festival
TV-PG, CC
Mark heads to Bardstown, Kentucky for a Bourbon 101. Next stop is due south to New Orleans where Mark brings to light the "calas".
And the last destination is Solano, California for the Tomato Festival. www.travelchannel.com


Previous Years Tomato Festival web pages:
01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07

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