Slow Food Russian River invites you to walk with other Grav Lovers in the 2016 Apple Blossom Parade.
Our goal is to keep the Gravenstein Apple and all of our Farmers in the spotlight. As we celebrate our beautiful apple blossoms and anticipate a bountiful, healthy harvest, let’s come together in proclaiming “THE GRAVENSTEINS ARE COMING”!
The Sebastopol Gravenstein Apple is on Slow Food’s Ark of Taste. The Ark of Taste is a living catalog of delicious and distinctive foods facing extinction. By identifying and championing these foods we keep them in production and on our plates.
Gravensteins are in danger of becoming broadly extinct because of many reasons, the most observable of which are their difficulty to harvest and the alarming loss of land, as many orchards are being converted to vineyards or rural estates.
Contact person to join the parade Doug Conover
Phone # during the parade: 707-217-7221
1. We are group 1, number 28. That is VERY different from previous years. We are literally moving up. Group one means we will begin marching soon after the 10:00 start so meet around 9:00 to 9:30 down High School Rd.
2. Our staging location is different. We will gather in the 28th position down High School Rd. from Analy High School. The best drop off will be via E. Hurlbut.
3. The group in front of us in position 27 is Sebastopol Historical Society pulling a trailer with a statue of Luther Burbank. Very cool.
4. If you have any, wear SLOW Food clothes, shirts, aprons, hats and comfortable shoes. If possible, wear GREEN t-shirts and bring blooming apple branches. If you wear a baseball type hat, we will try to staple one of our Save the Gravensteins bumper stickers to your hat.
5. Best of all, since we are early in the parade, we will be able to enjoy watching most of it when we are done. Parade ends at Calder.