2017 Contest Winners
Push, Pull, & Wear Parade Judges: Smooth Hound Smith, Councilman Brett Withers, East Nashvillian Publisher, Lisa McCauley
Push, Pull & Wear Parade (Float Winners)
1st place: Chips & Salsa
2nd place Tomato Headquarters Staff Pick: Rainbow Tomatoes (You Are Magical)
2nd place Judges Pick: Tomatoes Against Trump
3rd place: Campbells Soup
photo credit: @hendrix4182
East Nashville Tomato 5K
hosted by Margaret Maddox YMCA
Female Overall Winners
Gisela Olalde (18:51)
Beth Meadows (19:07)
Emily Mack (19:36)
Female Masters Winners
Michelle Nimmo (20:49)
Male Overall Winners
Dan O'Keefe (15:38)
Nick Walker (16:05)
Matthew Dietrich (16:15)
Male Masters Winners
Lee Wilson (16:41)
Faux Paw Pet Fashion Show
No losers this year!! Every dog was a WINNER!! Each dog (and one amazing goat!) received a leather dog tag, tomato handkerchief, and paw wax (to protect paws from hot pavements!) from Pet Wants
Corn Hole Competition
Tomato Art Fest Corn Hole set from Portland Custom Corn Hole
1st place: Quickel Team
2nd place: BuckWild
3rd place: "It's a Corny Name"
Bloody Mary Contest
Hosted by 3Crow
Sponsored by Deep Eddy Vodka & Walker Feed Co.
Winner with 262 Points: Payam & Emily
2nd Prize with 257: Nicole Fox
3rd Prize with 253 points: Sarah Smedley
Beautiful Tomato Pageant
hosted by Alegria Gifts
1st place: Toni Tramel
2nd place: Jodi Dent
3rd place: Anna Hight
photo from Nashville Farmer's Market
Biggest Littlest Ugliest Tomato Contest
Ugliest: Amy Phelan
Littlest: Douglas Mortlock
Consolation Prize for a "Green Littlest": Yale and Sarah Madden (tomato was to be red to fully qualify!)
Redhead Contest
Miss Tiny Tomato: Pearl
Mr Tiny Tomato: Asher
Early Girl Tomato: Ellie
Better Boy Tomato: Ethan
Hot Tomato: Courtney
Tomato Red: Nick
You are not really a Tomato: Isabella
Tomato Fairy / Elf Contest
Liliana Gomez, 13 and over category, Fairy
Anna Gregory, Under 13 category, Fairy
Indigo Snelling, Most Creative, Fairy
Recipe Contest
hosted by Nashville Farmer's Market
1st place: Ellen Zink Tomato Art Fiesta-Val Salad.
2nd place: Hayden Forsee, Smoked Caprese Salad
Leah Miller, 3rd place with “The Melodramatic Tomato”
Tomato Haiku Contest
ANYTHING GOES CATEGORY HAIKU WINNER: Free Verse by Nita Schriver
At the bottom of
My canvas shopping bag
I found
A lone grape tomato
Forgotten there for a few days.
Had it been new, shiny and firm
I would have popped it in my mouth.
Instead I enjoyed its warm squishiness,
Rolling it between my fingers,
Examining its pattern of wrinkles.
I hope to age the same way.
Giving up brash youth and beauty.
Becoming soft and interesting.
KIDS (AGE 16 & UNDER) CATEGORY HAIKU WINNER:
“Go, Tomatoes!” by Anya Webber
Awesome Tomatoes
Are Deliciously, Delish!
Go, Tomatoes! Go!
HUMOR CATEGORY HAIKU WINNERS:
TOP PRIZE HAIKU by Anna Vammen
Drink bloody marys
It’s a full serving of fruit
Pass the vodka please
SECOND PLACE HAIKU by Anna Vammen
These haikus are hard
Mainly because tomato
Is three syllables
THIRD PLACE HAIKU
“The Melodramatic Tomato” by Leah Miller
I was round and plump
Red and lush, thick skinned and flush
Until he bit me
ADULT CATEGORY HAIKU WINNERS
TOP PRIZE HAIKU by Randy Foster
Fried green tomatoes
With cornbread and buttermilk –
Southern communion
3-WAY TIE FOR SECOND PLACE HAIKU WINNERS
“Emotionally Complex Tomato” by Leah Miller
I’ve split my thick skin
Revealing my juicy pulp
Oh my, I taste good
Haiku by Michael Holley
If Eve gave Adam
A round red vegetable
We’d all be naked
Haiku by Jacqueline Elston
Red, ripe on the vine
Tomato Paradiso
Cinema of Taste