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 | Hi there Friends of Redland Region,
Here's a few items of interest for those who enjoy a visit to the Miami's Bountiful Countryside. Make some time in your schedule this week for family and friends with a delightful adventure in the Redland region to enjoy and celebrate our history, culture and heritage.
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| | | |  | | Redland GrowFest! returns for the sixth year to the Fruit & Spice Park on the weekend of October 13-14, 2018 from 9:30am to 4:30pm, celebrating all local things edible, green, and growing. This year's festival theme is Cultivate! Read more |
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| Saturday, October 13 | |  | | Learn about South Florida Gardening from Richard Campbell, a local expert on tropical fruit. While focusing on using fruit, vegetables and ornamentals for every taste, he will teach you the secrets to personalize and care for your own garden. Each student will also take home a tree of their own. Read more |
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During October | Harvest Festival at Burr's Berry Farm |  | | During the month of October, visit Burr's Berry Farm to experience the Harvest Festival with family-friendly activities. Weekday admission is $4 for kids and $7 for adults. Weekends $7 for kids and $12 for adults. (Kids 3 and under free.) This includes a free ice cream cone for kids when they complete the “maze game” and all activities. Call 305-251-0145. https://www.burrsberryfarm.com/ |
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| | |  | | The wonders of nature never cease to amaze. The ability of nature to heal itself is very much apparent at Fruit & Spice Park, following Hurricane Irma last September. Now, at the Fruit and Spice Park, banana and gamboge are in season. |
Bananas Are Back| One of this season's featured fruits was located in a section of the park considerably damaged. If this fruit could talk, it would have said, "Don't worry, we've been through this before, we know just what to do, and we will be back as good as new!" |
Gamboge from Cambodia and Thailand The other featured fruit, shares the same vibrant yellow color and has been used as a dye and pigment for thousands of years, including in paintings by Rembrandt or for the robes used by Buddhist monks.
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The unique 37-acre public facility is owned and operated by the Miami-Dade County Park and Recreation Open Spaces in South Florida. The Fruit & Spice Park’s tropical climate can be found nowhere else in the continental U.S., hosting more than 500 varieties of fruits, vegetables, spices, herbs, and nuts, and other commercially important plant specimens from around the world.
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| | | | | | A big thank you to all of our Redland View sponsors for helping us highlight these special events in the countryside -- and thanks to our Redland View readers for your continued interest in these delightful cultural opportunities.
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We hope you'll bring your family and friends out to the countryside for a day of old-fashioned fun and good times real soon. See you there!
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