The Fruit & Spice Park is the only tropical botanical garden of its kind in the United States. The unique 35-acre public facility is owned and operated by the Miami-Dade County Park and Recreation Department. Located in South Florida. The Park's tropical climate can be found nowhere else in the continental U.S. and hosts over 500 varieties of fruits, vegetables, spices, herbs, and nuts, and other commercially important plant specimens from around the world. The Park showcases 125 varieties of mango, 75 varieties of bananas, 70 bamboo varieties, and numerous other exotic edibles. Visitors are invited to munch at our tasting counter inside our Park Store.

Redland Summer Fruit Festival, June 21 & 22, 2008
Come out to the Park and stroll through the Fruit & Spice grounds and sample rare mangos, lychees and other tropical fruit of our South Florida Summer.  There will be demonstrations on pruning, grafting and help with plant problems.  Plants of all kinds will be for sale.  Kids activities, Blues Music, Farm Animals and Tractors new and old. Come hungry, rain or shine. Click here for more info about the Redland Summer Fruit Festival

Rare Fruit Conference, July 10-13th, 2008

Local and international tropical fruit experts will present programs to participants from Florida, California and Hawaii.  Included will be tours of gardens, farms and packing houses, a tropical fruit winery, and government research stations.  Speakers are coming from Brazil and Hawaii.
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Call 755-7848 (V/TDD) for materials accessible format, information on access for Persons with Disabilities or sign language interpreters (five days in advance).