🎡🚜 Episode 17 — Mary Nash | Day in the Country: Parade, Pie & Small-Town Magic 🍎🥧🍷
Chopping It Up with Keith Saarloos · Released September 20, 2025 · Santa Ynez Valley, California
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About this conversation
Los Olivos, this one’s for you. Mary Nash (Los Olivos Chamber of Commerce) joins me to spill everything about the 45th Annual Day in the Country—happening Saturday, October 11. We talk why this day still feels like the good kind of chaos, how a town of 1,200 pulls off a festival for thousands, and why the only wrong way to show up is not showing up.
What’s inside:
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8:00 AM – Kids Run + Fun Run (walkers + dogs welcome)
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10:00 AM – Parade MC’d by yours truly & Jeff Sieck (bring tractors, classics, bikes, teams, clubs—be in it!)
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All Day – 100+ vendors, food, music, community
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Apple Pie Contest – bragging rights on the line (limited spots!)
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Los Olivos Wine Festival at St. Mark’s—taste the town in one stop
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Scarecrow Fest all October (vote for your favorites)
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Parking supports Youth Empowered (local kids’ athletics)
This episode is your open invitation: dress 1940s, roll a vintage tractor, walk with your team, push a stroller, bring the dog—say yes and show up. We shout out this year’s Grand Marshal: Coastal Vineyard Care, the volunteers who make it happen, and why these neighbor-made days matter more than ever.
Get involved & sign up (parade, vendors, pie, Wine Fest tickets):
👉 losolivosca.com
👉 Instagram: @losolivosca
Come for the parade, stay for the pie—leave feeling like you live in a snow globe. 💙
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Los Olivos archive scene, 2006, by Antandrus, public domain. Context photograph; not a photograph of this recording. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Los_olivos_street.jpg
