2026 Albuquerque Tomato Fiesta

Sunday August 23
11 am – 3 pm

About Tomato Fiesta

Admission $5, kids under 12 are free,
Free Parking

Held at the Albuquerque Garden Center
10120 Lomas Blvd.
Inside Los Altos Park

Come celebrate the tomato harvest with Albuquerque Area Extension Master Gardeners and enjoy the following:

Tomato Variety Tasting – choose your favorite
Tomato Recipe Tasting with samples from our latest cookbook
Seminars (2) for Growing and Preserving Tomatoes
Kids Activities
Live Music from ‘Juanita’ – back by popular demand!
Merchandise – Tomato Recipe Cookbooks, tomato knives, Tomato Fiesta T-shirts and Down to Earth gardening books
Homegrown Produce from Master Gardeners and Vendors
Garden-related Craft Vendors


Have lunch and enjoy some of our tomato favorites at our dine in or out cafe. Live music for your entertainment.

Choose from: Ultimate BLT, Panini Caprese, Quiche with Side Salad, Pasta with Slow Roasted Tomatoes, Grilled Cheddar Cheese Sandwich. Plus for dessert: Green Tomato Chocolate Cupcakes, Lemon Pound Cake with Tropical Tomato Dessert Sauce, or Tomato-Strawberry Thumbprint Cookies.

Event Schedule​

Free lectures – seminars are held in Grace’s Room

12:00 PM​

Tomato Successes and Flops

Speaker: Marisa Thompson

1:30 PM​

Preserving the Harvest

Speaker: Sandy Gomez

Meet the Speakers​

Need Speaker bios

Marisa Thompson​

Urban Horticulture Specialist

Sandy Gomez and Erica Goldsmith


Sandy Gomez is the mother of 4 children, who are all grown up. Her husband and she have an urban vegetable garden. About 1/3 is in raised beds and 2/3 is in containers. She has a full-time job, but is also a Master Gardener and a Master Food Preserver. She enjoys helping people learn how to grow and preserve their own food in a safe way.
 
Erica Goldsmith is a mother of 2 awesome kiddos, a wife, a student at UNM studying Sociology! She has always been curious about how to preserve food but learning how to do it safely was her biggest concern. She has recently become a Master Food Preserver through NMSU.

Tastings​

Tomato Variety Tastings: you will be able to taste many varieties of tomatoes, of various sizes and colors grown/donated this year. Then you get to vote for your favorite. Past tomato taste winners include Sun Gold, Cherokee Purple, Black Cherry, Early Girl, Celebrity, Yellow Pear, and Paul Robeson.

Recipe Tastings: you can sample some of the recipes from our 12th edition Tomato Fiesta Cookbook. The edition contains new recipes with lots of ways to use tomatoes. TF Cookbook 12th Ed TOC

Our Sponsors​

Our friends that help make Tomato Fiesta possible. Please support these businesses.