The Española Farmers’ Market hosted its ninth annual Biggest Vegetable and Best Poem Contest Oct. 6. Entries included miniature vegetables, corn that was 25-and-a-half inches long and a purple tiger eggplant. All of the participants are sellers at the market. Entries for the Poem contest came from the Santa Fe Girls’ School. Seventh grader Georgia Redd won first place for her “Ode to Water.”
Biggest Heirloom Squash
First Place: Eufelia Martinez, La Puebla
Second Place: Nicolas Romero, Vadito
Third Place: Mathias Mares, Chimayó
Biggest Pumpkin
First Place: Elefio and Seraphine Montoya, Chimayó
Biggest Apple
First Place: Eddie Esquibel, Dixon
Second Place: Susie Lucero, Dixon
Third Place: Seraphine Montoya, Chimayó
Biggest Chile
First Place: Rosa Espinosa and Antonio Velasquez, Chimayó
Second Place: Luz & Leonard López, Nambé
Third Place: Rudy and Bernie Córdova, Hernandez
Biggest Root
Vegetable
First Place (turnip): Nicolas Romero, Vadito
Second Place: Eufelia Martinez, La Puebla
Third Place: Eufelia Martinez, La Puebla
Wild Card
First Place: Josie Gallegos, Velarde (giant corn)
Second Place: Luz López, Nambé (eggplant)
Third Place: Carmelita Martinez (basket of tiny vegetables)
Special Category
Giant Pumpkin (over 200 pounds): Jeff Sandoval, Los Alamos
Oddest Vegetable
First Place (misshapen carrot): Carmelita Martinez, La Puebla
Second Place: Elefio Montoya, Chimayó
Third Place: Rudy and Bernie Córdova, Hernandez
Best Poem
First Place: Georgia Redd
Second Place: Sarah Blog
Third Place: Sachiko Cooper Dasilva
Honorable Mention: Vanessa Gonzales