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Redland Summer Fruit Festival

Homestead, FL · Food & Drink

When

June 19–20, 2027

Where

Fruit & Spice Park · Homestead · FL

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Miami-Dade's Fruit & Spice Park in the Redland agricultural district celebrates the region's tropical fruit harvest with tastings, a mango and fruit display, grower workshops, and a watermelon-eating contest. The park grows hundreds of varieties of fruit, spices, and nuts across its grounds. The festival is held annually in June.

The history within reach

• Redland Summer Fruit Festivalsame spot

  Miami-Dade's Fruit & Spice Park in the Redland agricultural district celebrates the region's tropical fruit harvest with tastings, a mango and fruit display, grower workshops, and a watermelon-eating contest.

• Naranja was a railroad town named for its orange groves0.6 mi

  Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway put a stop here in 1904 and the settlement took the Spanish word for orange, after the groves that filled the area and shipped north on that line.

• Redland Farm Life School folded seven schoolhouses into one1.8 mi

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

• Leisure City was named to sell retirement1.8 mi

  Developers gave this stretch of South Dade its name to sell the idea of retirement, platting roughly 2,300 acres of pine and farmland.

• Coral Castle1.8 mi

  Ed Leedskalnin, a five-foot Latvian immigrant, spent 28 years single-handedly quarrying and setting over a thousand tons of coral rock into a walled garden of thrones, obelisks and a nine-ton gate a child could push open.