Santa Clara County fairgrounds leaders caused an uproar this year for pushing the annual fair date to keep vendors happy and — as a consequence — some youth farmers out of contention for junior livestock shows.
The parents’ response: Fine, we’ll organize our own.
Preparations for an alternative fair are now underway among farmers in South County, one of the South Bay’s last remaining agricultural vestiges, as a form of protest against the county fair’s new Aug. 19-23 dates this year…