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Redland International Orchid Festival

Homestead, FL · Nature

When

October 16–18, 2026

Where

Fruit & Spice Park · Homestead · FL

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Outdoor orchid show and sale held for nearly three decades at the tropical Fruit & Spice Park in Miami-Dade's Redland agricultural area. An American Orchid Society judged bench show runs alongside dozens of orchid growers and vendors from across the country. It is one of the largest orchid festivals in the United States.

The history within reach

• Redland International Orchid Festivalsame spot

  Outdoor orchid show and sale held for nearly three decades at the tropical Fruit & Spice Park in Miami-Dade's Redland agricultural area.

• At the Fruit and Spice Park you may eat what has fallensame spot

  Dade County bought twenty acres of Redland farmland in 1944, including a one room schoolhouse and a coral rock building from 1913, and turned it into a demonstration garden for subtropical fruit.

• The Redland farms tropical fruit on red clay0.5 mi

  The land here opened for homesteading in 1898 and was named for pockets of red clay lying over oolitic limestone.

• Hurricane Andrew snapped the WCIX tower and its replacement set a record1.6 mi

  Miami's channel 6 put its transmitter out in the farm country north of Homestead rather than up the coast with the other stations.

• Redland Farm Life School folded seven schoolhouses into one2.5 mi

  Seven one room schools were scattered across the farms of the Redland, at Eureka, Goulds, Modello, Murray Hill, Princeton, Redland and Silver Palm.