Lettuce Days 2016 - part 3

If you haven't already read them, part 1 is here: http://trekincartwrights.blogspot.com/2016/02/lettuce-days-2016-part-1.html
and part 2 is here: http://trekincartwrights.blogspot.com/2016/02/lettuce-days-2016-part-2.html

Some of the tractors and equipment on display:

 We had lunch at the "Toss It Up" salad bar, sponsored by Tanimura & Antle. For $2 per person, we got a huge salad (we went through a buffet line to specify exactly which fresh ingredients we wanted in it). We also got a coupon for a free product sample of T&A Artisan Sweet Red Onions and got to pick them up at the end of the meal.

We found a nice place to rest after lunch in the Barkley Ag Kitchen Stage. Throughout the day, various chefs would demonstrate production of a dish. If you were there at the beginning, they gave tickets for 50 people to get a sample of the dish that was made. This guy was making seared scallops and they were very delicious!

Patti walked over to the demonstration gardens while we were waiting for our last ticketed event - this cultivator was in the field.

Patti happened to notice that Kurt Nolte was one of the researchers who was named on this Automated Lettuce Thinner which was on display in the demonstration garden.

 Patti also happened on a Citrus tasting event as she was wandering around - they had all these different types of citrus that we could try - she really liked the Tangor! Unfortunately, they are hard to find for purchase because they have seeds and the American public doesn't seem to like purchasing fruit with seeds.

Our last event of the day was to visit "Westerner Products Yuma's Recipe Box tasting event". We had purchased tickets for the 2pm time period, so we queued up at about 1:45pm. The 1pm folks were finishing their tasting...

Once we got inside the tent, we enjoyed samplings of foods from about a dozen local restaurants, while being entertained by Yuma's String Ambassadors. The food was really great; we found a couple of restaurants that we want to be sure to visit while we are here!