One of my absolute favorite events in Frederick - In The Street! Serious. Do not miss the fun. Especially all the fun at VOLT. This will be our 3rd year of ITS and we have some lessons learned from past years. For the most part we are doing away with VOLT as you know it for the day. Instead, we’re bringing the party outside! Of course as the celebration suggests - We’ll be in the Street! But really we’ll be in our courtyard. Food stations, Beer Stations, Wine Stations. Stations Galore!!
Come on out for the day and walk downtown but save your appetite for the VOLT house where we’ll have VOLT street food for the day from 11-5.
If you have dinner reservations with us or anywhere else downtown, leave your house early because the streets and the garages will be full.
To get the full low down on the day’s events please go to Celebrate Frederick.

Oh by the way - this is Hilda. Hello there.

Ok so this is soooo not the right place to promote our beautiful people but what the hay. It is my blog and here’s Caroline.

AMC’s Mad Men is having a casting call and they’ll choose from amongst the top vote getters. So please support one of our friends of VOLT and vote for her. She shot her pictures for the contest at VOLT.

Caroline, you naughty girl. Can’t believe you got on my bar before I had a chance to get on the bar.

Here’s the link and you don’t have to register to vote. Click this everyday.

After Sunday the only tomatoes I want to see or hear about better be muddled in a bloody mary. But until then, check these out. That green one was super insane (how do you like that description).

This one was the pineapple tomato.

Oh and we had Holly Morris from Fox 5 come out to shoot their live segment for the Morning Show on Wednesday. Remember Wednesday? When we had the torrential downpour in the morning? Yup we were all there in the field. These guys were out there picking tomatoes for the segment. Champs I tell ya.

My buddy Timmie Metz even drove from an hour away to come play some tunes for us. He’ll be there Sunday to play for the group. You’ll love him too and we’ll also have a jazz quartet for the latter half of the event. Chef Ben Lambert from Restaurant Nora also made the trek out from DC. There was flooding, up and down GW Parkway. Chef Jack Walker from Firestones along with our cheese, olive oil and wine friends were also there. Not sure how these guys made it out to the fields in that downpour. But thank you all.

Group shot with Holly! Half the group had left by the last segment though. We will have many more participants out with us on Sunday.

Along with the wines, we will also have Heirloom Tomato Bloody Mary’s galore!!!

Go get your tickets, come on out. It’ll be fun. And then give me a month or two before mentioning anything tomato related to me.

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Save the date and come out for a fun family day at the beautiful Carrollton Manor Farms in Buckeystown, MD. As you all know VOLT loves our farmers and what better way to celebrate the bounties of our Frederick County local agriculture than to host a festival to honor the mother load - the heirloom tomato.

If you’ve ever tried your hand at growing the heirloom, you know its not for the faint of heart. They certainly are a handful and not anywhere as easy to grow as your typical nursery, disease resistant variety. But if you have the patience, the green thumb and the loving, caring time, the results are a feast for your taste buds. I have none of the above, so I am more than eager to taste the many varieties that our hosts Steve and Anita are growing for us.

Thank you to Bar-T, the premier all-green, Children’s Ranch in Urbana. They are our official Children’s Zone Sponsors and we are thrilled! They will have cotton candy, popcorn, moon bounce and other fun kids activities to keep your little ones occupied while you get your fill on the heirlooms.

Check out the tomato line up here. heirloom-list.pdf

To purchase tickets please go to Big White Barn link here.

So the Keys Game was completely nuts and totally fun at the same time. Totally nuts for our crew who worked the concession stand. Totally fun for me since I chatted with fans and drank beer for three hours. But a great time was had by all. Here’s a few pictures in case you missed out on the night.

The VOLT Crew

The 1,000 bobbleheads ran out in the first half hour of gates opening at 6:00.

I think this was around 5′ish when I stuck my head out to see if anyone had shown up for the game early. Ha. Wow.

How seriously cute is this?

Ok this one is cuter. The VOLT and the Baby VOLT on the field for the first pitch of the night.

Our Baby VOLTS in the house! Thanks Tibet and the Lost and Found crew for finding my lost son. Finding a peanut in a ballpark - totally scary half hour of the night.

The awesome kitchen crew.

Big Thanks to the Frederick Keys (Dave, Adam, Anita, Barb and the rest of the team) for inviting us and coordinating the event.

Thank you to our VOLT fans for coming out. Big thanks to all of you who stood in the food line for the entire game. We had no idea of the demand. I hope all of you who came out for the VOLT concession experience got to eat one of everything on the menu. For those asking, the “21″ on the VOLT t-shirts represented our amazing Table 21. To the guy who offered me $50 for the one I was wearing, I would have given it to you but I didn’t have a change of clothes. And no we don’t currently have any t-shirts for sale or any bobbleheads left. We’ve been asked by the Keys to come back for another event and of course you will be the first to know if we do plan another outing in the future.