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Yuma's Recipe Box... "Cooking up a better community."
This event provides non-profit organizations the opportunity to sell a food, beverage or other item as a fundraiser. After paying your initial registration fee, all money raised belongs to your organization. We ask a non-profit to "partner" with a business or entity that supports Yuma's agriculture community and together create an item that includes at least 2 Yuma grown products. When selling the item, you will also be handing the consumer a recipe card (created by Heritage Festivals) that will list your ingredients, a "fact" about the products and information about the non-profit and the business partner. Consumers collect these cards at various booths, we add a "Recipe Box" cover and they take home their very own Yuma cookbook. Click here to download Registration Form.
Heritage Festivals presents - The 12th Annual Yuma Lettuce Days Festival taking place in Historic Downtown Yuma in the midst of the growing season, honoring lettuce and all of its Yuma grown winter vegetables, January 23-25, 2009. Local growers and shippers will take part in the festivities to honor Lettuce and it's many produce cousins.
Yuma, 'The Winter Lettuce Capital of the World' is celebrating more than just Lettuce during the upcoming Tenth Annual Yuma Lettuce Days. Although the high yields of lettuce grown in the Yuma area is mind boggling, the winter vegetable crops are just as amazing! Over 90 percent of the country's winter vegetable crops are grown in this area! Lettuce leads the way as the number one producing crop grown in the Yuma area.
GET YOUR LETTUCE SEED PACKETS - purchase produce from The Yuma Community Food Bank, or buy a salad at the Largest Southwest Salad Bar daily from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.to get your seed packets. Participating in contests held in the 100 block of Main Street will also get you seed packets.
FREE Agriculture fields bus tours. The narrated tours are free each day of Yuma Lettuce Days, Jan 22, 23 and 24. To get a ticket go to the "Event Headquarters booth" at 10am the morning you wish to go on the tour. This tent is located on the West side of the fountain on Main Street, near the intersection of 3rd Street and Main Street.
We will issue tickets for each tour. Once you have your ticket, you may enjoy the rest of the festivities and then you will need to go to the "bus stop" at the time listed on your ticket. The "bus stop" is located near the intersection of 1st Street and Main Street.
Join us in the 100 Block of Main Street for some unique and inventive ways to enjoy The 12th Annual Yuma Lettuce Days.
Click here for Schedule of entertainment and events
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