Dave's Garden members and friends are cordially invited to attend the third annual South East Texas Tomato Festival (SETTFest)!
What is it?
A gathering of tomato growers and their friends who want to share and taste different varieties of homegrown tomatoes.
When is it?
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Setup is at 11am
Tasting begins at Noon.
Where is it?
Washington on the Brazos state park
20 minutes from Brenham, TX
Who will be there?
Tomato gardeners, farmers, and their friends from Texas and surrounding areas.
Please visit our updated website( http://www.settfest.com/ ) and download the 2009 SETTFest Flyer which has a map and more information about this year's event. You can also find photos from the last 2 years SETTFest gatherings.
If you are planning to attend, it would be helpful to us if you could visit our website and shoot us an e-mail on the Contact Us page. Hope to see you all there!
South East Texas Tomato Festival 2009
TomatoFest in Jacksonville, the Tomato Capital of the World, is on that same day. Guess we will all get to taste some good homegrown ones.
My understanding of the Jacksonville, TX tomato festival is that vendors bring tomatoes to sell. Do you know if there are a variety of tomatoes present at the Jacksonville event? Every picture I have seen looks like there are boxes and boxes of red beefsteaks.
SETTFest will have 100 different heirloom tomato varieties to taste in all shapes, sizes, and colors.
Last year, we had SETTFest a week later than we would have really liked, trying to work around the schedule of other tomato events. We didn't see any benefit in participation numbers and the tomatoes were a bit overripe. We're trying to do something different, and trying to show the public that not every tomato has to be red, round, and perfect.
We are now 1 week away from the 2009 SETTFest. Hope to see everyone there!
You don't have to be a gardener or farmer, just love tomatoes. ;)
SETTFest 2009 Best Year Ever
The 3rd annual South East Texas Tomato Festival (SETTFest) returned to the historic Washington on the Brazos state park on June 13th, 2009. We had our best turnout yet, with familiar faces, new folks, and unexpected guests. We had a great time, had everything set up early, so we could just enjoy visiting with folks.
Our mission at SETTFest is to introduce heirloom tomatoes to Central and South Texas gardeners and farmers alike, dispel the myths that only ‘heat setter’ varieties can be grown here, and offer advice and seeds wherever we can. So it was great to see folks asking lots of questions (including a few stumpers!), gathering seeds, and talking shop.
We are thrilled that more and more folks are bringing tomatoes and other items as well. There was a nice spread of breads, cheeses, pasta salads, etc. This was a tough year for tomatoes in our area due to the heatwave and torrential downpours in early May. But still most folks managed to get something and we enjoyed tasting varieties that others brought. Indeed one of the best varieties at the event was Atkinson.
Thanks all for making this a great event!
VIEW PHOTOS OF SETTFEST 2009:
http://www.feldoncentral.com/garden/photos/v/settfest09/
