About 10,000 asparagus lovers will make a pilgrimage to this tiny west Michigan town in Oceana County this weekend to pay tribute to the willowy vegetable and its numerous benefits . You can get all the asparagus you can stand at the 27th annual National Asparagus Festival, held here today through Sunday. There will be a children's parade, food shows, entertainment, an art fair, asparagus luncheons and dinners, farm tours, recipe handouts and much more.
People come here from all over the country.
It's on Lake Michigan, right around the lower peninsula's halfway mark. The county boasts four or five major canning companies that harvest some 9,700 acres of the lean, green veggie. We've had a pretty good harvest, says Glover. It started out with a bang with the hot weather early on. Her favorite dishes starring asparagus include asparagus bundt cake and asparagus guacamole, which has virtually no fat and no calories.