What are some annual festivals in Florida?
Florida's annual festivals include the Strawberry Festival in Plant City each spring and the Folk Festival in White Springs on Memorial Day weekend.
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When and where is the Florida Strawberry Festival held?
The Florida Strawberry Festival is an 11-day event held every year in Plant City, and the 2027 festival is set for March 4 through March 14, 2027.
The 2026 festival, the 91st, ran from February 26 through March 8, 2026.
The festival began in 1930, when members of the newly organized Plant City Lions Club planned an event to celebrate the strawberry harvest, according to the State Archives of Florida. It stopped for six years during and after World War II, and American Legion Post 26 helped bring it back in 1948.
The festival has exhibits of agriculture, commerce, industry, livestock, fine arts, horticulture and crafts, and it holds youth livestock shows. There are parades with floats and marching bands, a midway with rides and a kiddie area, free entertainment stages and headline concerts. In 2026 there was a booth in the Parke Exhibit Building where visitors made their own strawberry shortcake.
The grounds are at 303 BerryFest Place, Plant City, Florida 33563. The festival's administration office is at 813-752-9194, and its ticket office is at 813-754-1996.
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Where can I pick strawberries in Florida?
At u-pick farms around the state, each open only while its crop is ripe, so check the farm's website before you go.
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- Florida Strawberry Festival home page, Florida Strawberry Festival ↗ Read October 28, 2026
- Vendor Guide 2027, Florida Strawberry Festival ↗ Read October 28, 2026
- Vendor Guide 2026, Florida Strawberry Festival ↗ Read October 28, 2026
- Florida Strawberry Festival item, State Archives of Florida (Florida Memory) ↗ Read October 28, 2026
- Florida Strawberry Festival 2026: dates, entertainment, food and more, Bay News 9 ↗ Read October 28, 2026
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Is the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables haunted?
There are stories that it is, and 1stFlorida tells them as stories, not as fact.
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