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Top 10 things to do at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California

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<i>Garlic festival royalty behold the mighty vegetable.</i>

Top 10 things to do at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California

( Bill Strange )
Garlic festival royalty behold the mighty vegetable.

1. Eau de festival

As you're driving into town, leave the car windows down and note on the map exactly where you begin to smell the "stinking rose." Garlic represents about $1 million in agricultural receipts a year to Santa Clara County, which produces about $255 million in crops.

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