MARYSVILLE, CA (MPG) - The historic downtown district of Marysville was flooded with peach lovers over the weekend as the city hosted the 23rd Annual Peach Festival from Friday, July 14 through Saturday, July 15.

The festival took 18 total hours throughout the two-day event where the juicy fruit fans were able to enjoy delicious food, live music from eight different musician groups on two separate stages and rummage through over 150 vendors booth throughout the festival.

The Marysville High School Future Farmers of America (FFA) held a pancake and peaches breakfast on July 15 at the Silver Dollar Saloon.

Some of the highlighted foods available throughout the festival included peach barbecue glazed ribs and funnel cake fries with a peach dipping sauce.

Ozark barbecue catering, which is a local catering company and is associated with ET Quality RV out of Yuba City, offered up their 2022 award winning Peach BBQ glazed ribs that won in the peaches food category in the savory competition last year according to Melina Rochin, who works for Ozark.

“Since the sauce was a big hit last year, we decided to bottle it up and sell it,” Rochin said.

She added that the ribs came with a homemade potato salad and a dinner roll. Ozark additionally had a tri-tip sandwich meal that came with country baked beans.

Rochin told the Dispatch that they wanted to keep everything original as possible so you can soak up the flavor and associate the taste with Ozark’s name.

The eight-person team of Ozark was busy even before the festival as Rochin expressed to the Dispatch the prep for the sale and use of the peach BBQ sauce at the festival took a week alone with 400 plus peaches used in the process.

Nicky Davis, who is the owner of Wing Zone, served up delicious funnel cake fries with a peach dipping sauce.

Davis said that as a local business owner, they wanted to support local business as well.

“We decided to go with Stephens Farmhouse and they helped make the sauce,” Davis said.

The biggest thing Davis wanted to get out of a festival as this was their first festival as a vendor to get their name out there.

“We want to get our name out there, but we also want to be a part of the community,” Davis said. “We’ve done other events in our first seven months of opening and plan to do more and more.”

Wing Zone is located at 1282 Stabler Lane in Yuba City located next to the Bel-Air where they offer a wide menu of options including 18 different choices of rubs/sauces.