many more activities and contests
Saturday's big festival kicks off around 8 a.m. as five blocks of downtown Jacksonville will be filled with vendors, food, a Farmer's Market, fried green tomatoes, the site of many tomato competitions and live entertainment and other shows.
It was back in 2010 that Jacksonville's Tomato Fest earned a Guinness World Record for the World's Largest Bowl of Salsa. Hundreds of volunteer took to the steps of the Tomato Bowl to create a 2,672 pound bowl of salsa that was documented by the Food Network show 'Glutton For Punishment'. Part of that world record bowl is still on display on the steps of the football stadium.