Rose Bowl here we come!

This weekend Wholesome Harvest entered its first float in the "Colo Days" parade. Colo is a town of 700 people and like most other small towns in Iowa, once a year it has a local festival. The weekend events bring us together with outdoor activities and communal meals.

The activities this year included "outhouse races" with teams of four pushing outhouses on wheels through obstacle courses and a pig wrestling contest. I sat in the back bleachers at the pig wrestling event, hoping to stay clean, but in the end I was still splashed with what we will optimistically call "mud."

Big thanks to the Wholesome Harvest farm kids that rode on the float. Most floats throw candy. We wouldn't do that!!!! Instead, we passed out packets of vegetable and flower seeds. People liked that. Our float was called "It's fun to grow and eat local food" to tie in with the parade's theme this year, "It's fun to play in Colo."