Editing Asparagus (section)

=== Celebrations ===
The green crop is significant enough in California's [[Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta]] region that the city of [[Stockton, California|Stockton]] holds a festival every year to celebrate it. [[Oceana County, Michigan]], the self-proclaimed "asparagus capital of the world", hosts an annual festival.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Asparagus Festival |url=https://www.nationalasparagusfestival.org/ |access-date=2020-10-20 |website=asparagusfestival |language=en}}</ref> The [[Vale of Evesham]] in [[Worcestershire]] (another "asparagus capital"<ref>{{cite web | title=A Visitor's Introduction to Evesham | publisher=Choosewhere | url=https://choosewhere.com/evesham-visitor-guide | access-date=9 May 2025}}</ref>) celebrates the annual British Asparagus Festival, with auctions of the best crop, an "Asparagus Run" modelled on the Beaujolais Run, and a weekend "Asparafest" music festival.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Festival |url=http://www.britishasparagusfestival.org/about/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327014443/http://www.britishasparagusfestival.org/about/ |archive-date=27 March 2019 |access-date=26 March 2019 |work=British Aparagus Festival |publisher=British Asparagus Festival}}</ref>

Many German cities hold an annual ''Spargelfest'' (asparagus festival) celebrating the harvest of white asparagus. [[Schwetzingen]] claims to be the "Asparagus Capital of the World".<ref name="Davis-2008">{{cite news |last=Davis |first=William A. |date=14 May 2008 |title=Buried treasure: white asparagus |work=The Christian Science Monitor |location=Schwetzingen, Germany |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0514/p17s01-hfgn.html?page=2 |access-date=26 March 2019}}</ref>
<!--"The town of Beelitz in the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan area" was mentioned here, situating it in northeastern Germany that (see Cultivation) is famous for asparagus cultivation — but not a word about a festival...-->