But CBS Sacramento was told all of this was at risk of not even happening this year after its CEO, Tony Noceti, and his wife, Rowena, were in a major car crash in November.
Thankfully, farmer Tony and Rowena are on the road to recovery after Tony said he had 30 broken bones.
As the owner of a local racing speedway, Tony went into high gear to keep this festival afloat.
Stockton, the home of the asparagus, or at least it used to be. Tony partners with one of the last remaining asparagus farms in the area, Moon Dust Farms, owned by Klein Family Farms, just for this festival.
The festival will go through a couple of tons of asparagus that will be deep-fried by Mrs. Julie, known as the 'asparaboss' around, and 100 of her volunteers. She remembers being able to buy asparagus on the side of the road.
"Friends of my father, Filipino friends would bring them asparagus in the springtime and it was just such a delicacy because it originated right here in the San Joaquin Delta."
"In the agriculture business, what happened there was the labor costs got too expensive and some of the farmers went down to Mexico," Noceti said.
"It's a classic case of, we used to be relatively good at asparagus, we're still good at it, but the costs are high here relative to Mexico, and it's really that simple," Sumner said.
"Nobody wants somebody out there working for 5 bucks an hour here in San Joaquin County, or wherever we are, so in that sense, it was natural for it to move where 5 bucks an hour is not a bad wage. People can make a living at it, so to speak. So that was natural, and it's happened with other things in the history of the United States."
"We give back to a lot of non-profit groups and help people out," Noceti said. "It's one of the biggest events around that we have here and it takes all year long to get ready for this thing."
CBS Sacramento was told this was the largest crowd at the festival since it has been at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds. The event could've ended earlier due to weather, but the sun shone on the fair throughout Sunday as it was packed yet again for people to look for their fried asparagus cooked by the 'asparaboss' as the asparagus tradition continues into the next decade.
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