By Michelle Fabio

News of another tomato event has reached us here at Tomato Casual: the Kendall-Jackson Heirloom Tomato Festival in Fulton, California benefiting the School Garden Network of Sonoma County.

At the festival you can check out over 170 varieties of heirloom tomatoes picked from the Culinary Gardens at Kendall-Jackson Vineyard Estates.

Other features of the festival include:

• Food of gourmet food purveyors
• Bruschetta Boulevard
• Food & Wine magazine Best New Chef’s Challenge
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By Michelle Fabio

If you will be around Carmel, California on September 16, 2007, you should consider reserving your spot at the16th annual NatureSweet Carmel TomatoFest, a celebration of heirloom tomatoes from around the world.

At “America’s Favorite Tomato Harvest Festival” you’ll find over 350 heirloom tomato varieties including NatureSweet’s own, which started as an experiment by the Israeli Department of Agriculture to figure out how to grow tomatoes in Israel’s desert climate year round.

The results were transferred to the United States in 1990, and have been grown here ever since.

Those heirlooms along with innovative tomato dishes, over a hundred premium wines and tomato salsas, an international olive oil tasting event, an old-fashioned barbecue, and taste-testing of tomato specialty products ensure that you won’t go hungry or thirsty at the Quail Lodge Resort, site of the festival.

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By Amelia Tucker

Do you own assorted tomato hot mitts and salt and pepper shaker sets?

If so, I’ve found the perfect adventure for you.

Make your way to East Nashville’s 4th Annual Tomato Art Fest, billed as a “costume-friendly event” and as, ” Nashville‘s version of the New York‘s East Village.”

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