Halloween Harvest Festival and Costume Parade at Diablo Valley Certified Farmers' Market

The annual Halloween Harvest Festival takes place Saturday, October 29, at the Diablo Valley Certified Farmers' Market. Festivities include the kids' costume contest and parade at 10:30 a.m. Prizes will be given for best and most creative costumes. Family fun also includes a "Guess the Weight of the GIANT Pumpkin" contest with a $50 prize ,the Pumpkin Pitch Game, and a children's mini-pumpkin decorating!

Diablo Valley Certified Farmers' Market in Shadelands is year round and held every Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Mitchell Drive and N. Wiget Lane in the Kaiser Permanente parking lot. Family farmers bring local produce and heirloom variety fruits and vegetables that they grow themselves. Specialties of the season include tree-ripened Gala, Jonagold, and Fuji apples, pomegranates, Bartlett pears, Fuyu persimmons, Valencia oranges, cabbages, eggplants, yams, sweet potatoes, Butternut squash, hierloom vine-ripened tomatoes, organic and Asian vegetables, sunflowers, dahlias, baked breads, ocean fresh fish and more, direct from California certified growers and gourmet food purveyors.

The Dialbo Valley Certified  Farmers' Market is a location approved by the County Agricultural Commissioner where farmers offer for sale only those fruits and vegetables they grow themselves. For more information call the market hotline at 800-806FARM(326) or visit http://www.cafarmersmkts.com/