What type of event is strawberry festival in the US?”
Florida Strawberry Festival bears fruit today y GEORGE H. NEWMAN | The Tampa Tribune Published: March 4, 2010 Updated: 06:13 am PLANT CITY – The carnival rides are complete, the entertainers are ready to go, and the strawberries have been picked and stemmed. All the ingredients are in place for today’s 10 a.m. opening of the Florida Strawberry Festival. And if the weather’s good, festival officials anticipate that the celebration will be bigger than ever. “We hope people will come out and enjoy all the festival has to offer,” General Manager Paul Davis said. The festival is celebrating its 75th anniversary at the height of a season filled with challenges for the farmers. Record cold in early January forced growers to pump millions of gallons of water to protect their berries and blossoms, a situation that has been blamed for sinkholes that have plagued the Plant City area. The weather also contributed to a strawberry shortage that now appears to be over. Davis said there will be plenty
A Strawberry Festival is an event and celebration in many towns in North America. In most instances, areas around these towns are, or have been, deeply involved in the production and marketing of strawberries, and the festivals are usually held in late spring around the time of the strawberry harvest. Such festivals generally involve a parade and other community events.
