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May 2013

May 2013

Get Caught Reading Month
Gifts from the Garden Month: Celebrate the many ways that gardens and gardening benefit us!
National Barbecue Month
National Egg Month: www.aeb.org
National Hamburger Month: Pay tribute to one of America's favorite foods on this day.
National Salad Month: Enjoy a salad today in celebration of this very nutritious meal.
National Salsa Month: What do you add salsa to? Eat that food today in celebration of all that salsa is used for!
May 1-5: Selma Annual Raisin Festival & Carnival; www.cityofselma.com/chamber/calendar.htm
May 1: School Principal's Day; A Day to recognize all school pricipal's and the work they do.
May 4: Orange County Food & Wine Festival; www.ocfoodandwine.com
May 6-12: National Wildflower Week; A week to celebrate and observe wildflowers. www.wildflower.org
May 7: National Teacher Day; Celebrate your teacher today and all they do for the children of America. www.nea.org
May 10-12: Whole Earth Festival; wef.ucdavis.edu
May 10: Golden Spike Driving Anniversary, 1869; The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railways met at Promontory Point, Utah. On that day, a golden spike was driven by Leland Stanford to celebrate the linkage of Omaha to Sacramento. How did this impact agriculture in the U.S.?
May 11: Great Petaluma Chili Cook-off, Salsa, and Beer Tasting; www.greatchilicookoff.com
May 12: Mother's Day; Celebrate your Mom today!
May 12-18: National Transportation Week
May 12-18: Reading is Fun Week; Highlight the importance and fun of reading. Use books with an agricultural theme.
May 13-19: Children's Book Week; One ag-themed book a day, that's all we ask!
May 14: Smallpox Vaccine Discovered 1796; A physician in Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner noticed that many of his cattle and dairy farmer patients didn't contract smallpox. He deduced that exposure to cowpox, a less threatening disease, gave immunity to smallpox. The discovery helped spread what Jenner referred to as a vaccine (from the Latin vacca for cow) to England and beyond. That's an agricultural contribution!
May 16-17: Old Town Temecula Western Days; www.temeculacalifornia.com
May 16-19: Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee; This is one of the longest running events in the State of California. It earliest roots date back to 1893. www.frogtown.org
May 17-19: Paso Robles 31st Annual Wine Festival; www.pasowine.com/events/winefestival.php
May 17: National Pizza Party Day; Celebrate your day with a pizza party!
May 18: Uncorked! Wine Festival; www.ghirardellisq.com/events/annual-events/uncorked-wine-festival
May 18-19: California Strawberry Festival; strawberry-fest.org
May 18-19: The Annual Castroville Artichoke Festival; www.artichoke-festival.org/index.html
May 18-19: Oakdale Chocolate Festival; www.oakdalechamber.com/chocolate-festival-rootmenu-41
May 18-19: California Artichoke Festival; www.artichoke-festival.org
May 19-25: World Trade Week; The presidential proclamation has been issued here each year since 1948.
May 20: Homestead Act, 1862; Building and living in a house for five years on government-owned acreage brought ownership to many and helped establish thousands of farms.
May 21-25: Vacaville Fiesta Days; fiestadays.org
May 21-26: Mule Days Celebration; www.muledays.org
May 25: Tour de Cluck; www.tourdecluck.org
May 25-26: Arroyo Grande Strawberry Festival; www.arroyograndevillage.org/strawberry_fest.shtml
May 25-26: Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras Festival; www.mhmmg.com
May 26: Larkspur Flower and Food Festival; www.teamproevent.com/events/larkspur.html
May 27: Memorial Day
May 31-Jun. 2: Patterson Apricot Fiesta; www.apricotfiesta.com