80% of garlic actually comes from China these days, so Brandon can set you up for a 10% cut. Gilroy developed a persistent garlic disease soil problem, so their garlic growing glory days are over.
Posted on 04/22/2022 9:40:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The popular Gilroy Garlic Festival and gourmet alley which attracted tens of thousands of garlic lovers and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local charities is being canceled indefinitely.
“Due to lingering uncertainties from the pandemic, along with prohibitive insurance requirements by the City of Gilroy, the Gilroy Garlic Festival Board has decided not to move ahead with a festival for 2022 and the foreseeable future,” the festival board of directors said in a letter to local media.
According to past president and current board member, Tom Cline the festival was losing money.
“Clearly it was over the 10 years of just losing money was the main culprit and the main cause of what was going on with the festival and being able to be sustainable and that was the real cause that was the root cause of it,” Cline said.
Festival organizers said rising costs and insurance premiums contributed to the problem. The festival was having to bus-in people as development encroached around Christmas Hill Park where the annual was held.
“The truth of the matter is the development around Christmas Hill Park is what was eating at the Garlic Festival Association's reserves and they were barely able to keep that going,” said Gilroy Mayor Marie Blankley.
Organizers said a deadly shooting at the festival in 2019 that left three dead and injured 17, played little in their decision to cancel the festival. The event never really recovered from it. The festival was canceled the following year because of COVID-19 and a drive-thru version was held in 2021.
“The nonprofits, schools, sports teams, I mean so many things yes that depended on it for fundraising absolutely that's probably the biggest loss I would say,” Blankley said.
Organizers say they are re-imagining the annual festival and will look to bring back a much smaller version, possibly a 2,500 to 5,000 person a day event; if they can only find a venue.
“We're not going away," Cline said. "We're trying to work through it and figure it out and it is a process and it's hard to put a timetable on it and I know people want that and understand that we just got to find it."
Festival organizers said they plan to hold several smaller events this summer to keep the brand alive and raise money for local nonprofits. Those events include a golf tournament in June, a concert in July and a dinner in September.
80% of garlic actually comes from China these days, so Brandon can set you up for a 10% cut. Gilroy developed a persistent garlic disease soil problem, so their garlic growing glory days are over.
Uh huh....How many lawsuits are pending over those shootings?
Yep
Only 4 acres of Gilroy Garlic are left.
The plant in town processes garlic from China
It seems as though even Americans with English as their first language are rapidly losing the skill to communicate their thoughts succinctly and smoothly in English.
I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and simply assume that he was "thumbing" this on his phone in his pants pocket while having a root canal performed on himself.
Regards,
We should ban them. Destroy China.
But we won’t; they OWN our so-called “president.”
It closed due to Covid?
You’d think that social distancing would be a given at a garlic festival.
But the great food, right?
Darn...it was on my bucket list since 1973, but I never made it.
Yes! Good times.
Yes it was some tasty stuff.
Real tough on the social life though.
Thank you.
Ain’t looking good.What ain't looking good on that link is property prices. Wow. Those 2bdr/bath for $800K+ ain't going to survive inflation-era interest rates. Anyone who owes more than they own, especially on an ARM, better get used to the words, "under water."
I have no sympathy for the fools who took out adjustable rate mortgages in the lowest interest rate market of my lifetime.
Lenders/ brokers sucker people into these all the time. Even if it’s about 5% of original loans, it has a significant impact on overall price.
As with autos, real estate agents and loan brokers push people into more expensive/ risky loan instruments in order to maximize the sale price — even it its’ well beyond purchaser ability to pay.
Puff went the magic dragon...
I love eating at the Giant Artichoke in Castroville.
Been going since I was a kid and know the owner, her husband and children.
Fried Artichoke Hearts are so Darn Good!!!
I’ll be there tomorrow, on my to Carmel...
Artichoke Festival in Castroville, North of Monterey.
IIRC most of that is ‘peeled’ or processed garlic. I’ve grown my own for the past 10 years so haven’t paid close attention. It is easy to grow even in bad soil.
Thank you forthe correction. Artichoke: Old Indian word for “food you can starve to death while eating”
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