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Florida Fruit and Vegetable Festivals
This page lists all of the fruit and vegetable festivals in Florida. Links are
provided to each festival's website, so you can confirm this year's date,
times and events. Just click on the blue, underlined name of the festival.
IUf you know of a festival we've missed, please
click here to let me know about it!
January
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Florida Citrus Festival
- Late January every year.
Winter Haven, FL (Central Florida). This long time festival was
started back in 1924. They have with beauty pageants, karaoke,
grapefruit packing competition and parade.
- Kumquat Festival - Mid
January (Saturday, January 28th in 2006).
Dade City, FL. (Central Florida). Florida's furry citrus have
their own festival with a cook-off, antique car rally and farmers market.
Phone: (352) 567-3769.
February
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Delray Beach Garlic Festival
- Friday, Saturday and Sunday, in February every year
Admission Fee (in 2007): $8 ($1 of every
ticket purchased goes to Project Thanksgiving)
The Delray Beach Garlic
Fest continues to offer Florida garlic fans the opportunity to celebrate the
most widely used and loved food in the world ...GARLIC. This year the Delray
Beach Garlic Fest continues its' tradition of bringing some of the greatest
national act entertainment to downtown Delray Beach. Note: the 2007 Delray
Beach Garlic Fest is typically held in mid-February.
March
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Florida Strawberry Festival
- March, check their website for this year's dates.
Plant City, FL. (Central Florida). Whatever your interests, we have it all.
All manner of strawberries, cotton candy and strawberry shortcake are
served! Exhibits of agriculture, commerce, industry, livestock, fine arts,
horticulture, and crafts await you. The fabric of American life is woven
into this Florida Strawberry Festival® through ethnic traditions, social
events, competitive contests, youth developmental programs, top-name
entertainment, parades with scores of glorious floats, and high-stepping
marching bands moving to the musical beat. The Florida Strawberry Festival®
is also a community fair.
Click here for
directions. Discover the greatness of this land we live in by attending
an American tradition–the community fair.
May
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Bostwick Blueberry Festival - blueberries,
Bostwick Community Center Bostwick Public Library 125 Tillman Street,
Bostwick, FL 32007. Phone: 904-268-3346. Directions: Off US Highway 17, 7
miles north of Palatka. It is held at the
Bostwick Community Center
in Bostwick, Florida, 125 Tillman Street. And for a map to our farm,
click here. Crops are usually available in May. Open: Saturday, May 16,
from 8 am to 4 pm. Payment: Blueberry pancake breakfast served from 8 am to
noon (5.00), arts and crafts, country store, fresh blueberries, homemade
blueberry pies and other blueberry baked goods for sale, plants for sale,
library book fair, continuous entertainment, refreshments and snacks.
(UPDATED: March 03, 2009)
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Zellwood Sweet Corn
Festival - late May - check their website. Gates
open at 11am - 10pm.
4253 W Ponkan Road, Zellwood, FL 32798. Phone: 407-886-0014. Fax:
407-886-0001. (Central Florida). The New Zellwood Sweet Corn Festival is a
combination of outdoor family fun and entertainment. We have plenty of
activities for everyone, young and old. Everyone loves to watch "BIG BERTHA"
at work. She can cook 1,650 ears of corn every 9 minutes, in 350 gallons of
boiling water. While Mom browses through the Arts & Crafts and the kids
enjoy the amusement rides. You can purchase a variety of items from our
concessionaires, and then walk it off while you spend part of your day
browsing and shopping. We have one of the best Arts & Crafts exhibits in the
state. Take home a Festival T-shirt from our Souvenir Shack. Many other
items are available. As you leave for home, drop by the Corn Sales area and
take home some great fresh Zellwood Sweet Corn. Our corn is grown right here
in Zellwood. We will be purchasing our corn from the remaining farm in
Zellwood,
Long & Scott Farms.
For those with disabilities there is a handicapped tent with facilities and
assistance for getting to and from the area. Emergency Medical Services are
nearby. Parking is free.
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Ruskin Tomato
& Heritage Festival - Saturday & Sunday, early May, 10 am to 5
p.m.
Food, Fun and Farmer's Market, Ruskin Tomato Queen, Plant Show and Sale,
Gardening Seminars and Workshops, Fried Green Tomatoes, Kid's Korner- Rides
and Games, Crafts, Products and Prizes, Watershed Tour, Butterfly tent with
release at end of Festival, Free Sliced Tomatoes, Antique Tractor Show,
Roamin' Oldies Classic Car Show, Bluegrass and Country Music, Heritage
Center, Historical Exhibits. Free tomato plants to first 250 people. $4
admission; children under 6 are free.
June
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Chiefland Watermelon Festival -
the first Saturday in June, every year
Chiefland, FL. City Park, Tommy Usher Center. The Parade runs from high
school to CR 345. Watermelons, parade, music, crafts, Watermelon Queen
Contest. Call (352) 493-2330 or (352) 493-1849 for more information. A
one-day festival includes arts and crafts exhibitors, and children's
activities, such as the Greased Pole and the Seed Spitting contests. Free
cold watermelon, donated by local growers, is served by Civitan members and
other volunteers throughout the day. The festival parade is made up of
floats with a watermelon theme, high schools bands, fire engines, and cars
chauffeuring contestants of the Watermelon Festival Queen contest. Local
growers enter their biggest and best melons in the watermelon weighing
contest, conducted in three categories. Following the awards ceremony, the
delicious entries are auctioned off. Their proceeds help pay for festival
expenses. Children's activities are a special part of the festival. The
Little King and Queen Contest, organized by the Chiefland Woman's Club, is
for youngsters between three and five years old. Each year, 20 to 30
pre-school children dress up and parade in front of an auditorium full of
proud relatives and friends. The festival is sponsored by Chiefland
Activities Incorporated, which consists of the Civitans and the Chiefland
Woman's Club.
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Panhandle Watermelon Festival- Chipley, Florida - Held the last Saturday in June,
from 10 am to 4 pm.
Chipley, FL. Big Parade at 10:00 A.M. from Old High
School through downtown. Held in the quaint Florida panhandle town of
Chipley, at the Agricultural Center on Jackson Avenue, Highway 90. Events
include: a Big Watermelon Contest, comedy shows and other surprise guests, a
5000 Meter Run, a Car & Truck Show, Contests for Kids, Tournament Horseshoe
Pitching, Square dancing and Singers. There is also nightly entertainment at
the Northwest Florida Campground, in Chipley games and plenty of
entertainment for the kids. For More Information Contact : Washington County
Ag. Center (850) 638-6180 or email: washington@ifas.ufl.edu.
(UPDATED: May 12, 2008)
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Wellborn Blueberry Festival - Early June - 2009 Festival Dates
are June 5 & 6, 2009
Wellborn, Florida. Phone: 386-963-1157. Email:
wendellsnowden@prodigy.net. Wellborn
itself lays claim to Florida's largest blueberry festival, hosting the
annual event each June. The festival features such activities as a parade,
pie eating contest, and the crowning of Little Miss and Mister Blueberry,
providing family fun. . (UPDATED: March 28, 2009)
July
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International Mango Festival - July 6 - 9, Saturday and Sunday, 9:30
am to 4:30 p.m.
Azucar! Celebrating Mangos from Old Cuba
Held at Fairchild Tropical Gardens. 10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables,
Miami, Florida 33156, USA. Fairchild is adjacent to Matheson Hammock Park,
about 20 minutes by car from downtown Miami and Miami International Airport.
Driving directions are easy.
Saturday, July 8:
Mango Tree Sales, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (or until sold out)
Mangos of the World Cultivar Display, Garden House 9:30 am to Noon
Mango Medics, Mango Tastings & Evaluations, Corbin Building, 9:30 am to
Noon, Admission: $1 per person
Enjoy Mango Cuisine Samplings from Regional Chefs, 9:30 a.m.
Mango Fruit Market, Garden House Lawn, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Mango Café, Garden House Lawn, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Mangos
for Kids! Education - Center for Teaching and Learning Chickee, 9:30
a.m. – 4:30 pm, Admission is $1 per child
Mango
Workshops, Garden House, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, July 9
Mango Tree Sales, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (or until sold out)
Mango Fruit Market, Garden House Lawn, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Mangos
for Kids! Education - Center for Teaching and Learning Chickee, 9:30
a.m. – 4:30 pm, Admission is $1 per child
Mango
Workshops, Corbin Building, 9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Fairchild’s Mango Brunch, Garden House, 11:00 a.m., Fairchild Members $75,
Non-members $100
Mango Auction: Garden House, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Florida Pick-Your-Own Information
This page provides a listing of pick your own farms in North Florida (Jacksonville, Gainesville, Ocala
areas).We also have our own free and
simple, step-by-step,
illustrated
instructions on canning, freezing and drying many fruits and
vegetables, such as how to make jam,
apple
butter, applesauce,
spaghetti
sauce, salsa,
pickles,
ketchup or
freezing
corn . If
you are looking
for Canners,
mixes, jars, pectin and other canning supplies at the best prices anywhere!
I'm always
looking for suggestions of more farms and
events to add and feedback about any you have visited, so if you encounter any,
just click on the preceding link, as appropriate! And if you have a farm and want to
add it or correct the
information, please click on the link to "add my farm".
Remember to ALWAYS either email, call or click the link to
the farm's own website (if they have one) on the morning before you go,
to confirm hours, conditions and availability of the specific crops you want!
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