March 30, 2020
To our beloved Canners & Bakers:
Home canning and baking came from a need to preserve food and later to pass on tradition and family recipes. It gained popularity during a difficult time in our history. The CA State Fair is proud to share your canned and baked goods, just as you are proud of your recipes. But right now, there is nothing more important than the health and safety of our community.
As we face these current challenging times, the CA State Fair & Food Festival team remains optimistic that we will celebrate again this summer. We remain in continuous communication with our States’ leadership as well as our partners to keep our competitors, volunteers, and staff safe and healthy while we continue to plan for our competition season.
We recognize the impact that this national emergency has had on everybody's daily life, so we will postpone our competition open date to April 13.
As this is a fluid situation where things are changing daily, emails will be sent out with updates on the California State Fair and Food Festival and competition planning as things develop.
If you have any questions about the competition, please contact cakitchen@calexpo.com.
We hope that everyone is staying safe and healthy and we can all be together soon.
Signed,
Programs and Competition Team
California State Fair & Food Festival
July 17th – August 2nd
CaStateFair.org
