{"id":2414,"date":"2016-03-03T13:51:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T05:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2021-07-23T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T00:32:16","slug":"la-trinidad-strawberry-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/2016\/03\/03\/la-trinidad-strawberry-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"La Trinidad Strawberry Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Strawberries have long been associated with Baguio, but as far as locals are concerned, the best strawberries still come from La Trinidad, Benguet. It\u2019s no surprise, then, that a festival honouring their best produce is held in March every year: the <strong>Panaspulan Strawberry Festival, <\/strong>more commonly known as the <strong>La Trinidad Strawberry Festival.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2417\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/Strawberry-2015-Festival-1-1024x700.jpg\" alt=\"Strawberry-2015-Festival-1\" width=\"850\" height=\"581\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(Photo courtesy of JJ Landingin via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interaksyon.com\/lifestyle\/let-la-trinidad-take-you-down-to-its-strawberry-fields-amid-month-long-strawberry-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interaksyon.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The festival started out in 1981 as a way for former Mayor Hilarion \u201cAbe\u201d Pawid to encourage local farmers to farm strawberries instead of the usual vegetables that Benguet is known for. The town eventually became known as the Strawberry Capital of the Philippines, and have celebrated the Strawberry Festival every year since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The town\u2019s biggest achievement during the Strawberry Festival is their recognition in the Guiness Book of World Records for baking the World\u2019s Largest Strawberry Shortcake. A staggering 9,622.23-kilo shortcake was made by various bakers back in 2004. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/world-records\/largest-fruit-shortcake\">record<\/a> stands to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1855\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/border3.png\" alt=\"border3\" width=\"850\" height=\"5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/border3.png 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/border3-300x2.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/vigattintourism.com\/tourism\/articles\/Strawberry-Festival\"><em>vigattintourism.com<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/world-records\/largest-fruit-shortcake\"><em>Guiness Book of World Records<br \/>\n<\/em><\/a><em>Photos courtesy of: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LTStrawberry\/\"><em>La Trinidad Strawberry Festival Facebook page<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strawberries have long been associated with Baguio, but as far as locals are concerned, the best strawberries still come from La Trinidad, Benguet. It\u2019s no surprise, then, that a festival honouring their best produce is held in March every year: the Panaspulan Strawberry Festival, more commonly known as the La Trinidad Strawberry Festival. &nbsp; (Photo courtesy of JJ Landingin via interaksyon.com) &nbsp; The festival started out in 1981 as a way for former Mayor Hilarion \u201cAbe\u201d Pawid to encourage local farmers to farm strawberries instead of the usual vegetables that Benguet is known for. The town eventually became known as the Strawberry Capital of the Philippines, and have celebrated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-and-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9666,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/9666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}