The 2024 Florida Strawberry Festival returns to Plant City

It runs from Thursday, Feb. 29 to March 10.

by Ray Roa February 21, 2024May 7, 2025

In 2023, more than 600,000 people filed in and out of the Florida Strawberry Festival, and the 2024 edition kicks off in Plant City next week.

Livestock contests (lamb show, anyone?), a carnival midway, plus insane food events like the strawberry mashed potato eating contest, plus headlining entertainment are all on deck as part of this 11-day, annual celebration of Plant City’s prized export.

Publix has discount admission tickets if you want to skip the line at the gate. Kids under five get in free with paid adult admission.

Tickets to the Florida Strawberry Festival happening daily in Plant City from Feb. 29-March 10 start at $5. Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.

This article appears in Feb 15-21, 2024.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief... More by Ray Roa