There are few things more relaxing than spending a whole day at a farm. The vegetable box that I subscribe to was having an event on their farm in Capay, CA. Their Heirloom Tomato Festival celebrates their successful tomato season, and along with tomato tasting, they had great food, bluegrass music, and a bounty of ripe, organic produce. Customers were invited to taste different varieties of heirloom tomatoes, and ultimately vote for one that the farm should plant for the next season (the winner was the Cherokee Purple Tomato).
The event started thankfully at 5pm, because although it was miserably hot when we got there, I could only imagine how unbearable it was before that. But there was an upside to the heat – when night fell, the air was as warm as it is here during the day. It was a tranquil evening, as we chatted it up with some good friends, and bus-camped in a grove of fig trees underneath a warm, starry sky.
