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Bucket of Berries from Spring Valley Farms’ 2013 Blueberry Gleaning

Blueberry season is wrapping up in Florida and over the weekend I headed to Spring Valley Farms in Umatilla (about an hour north of Orlando and near the retirement community, The Villages) to celebrate the end of the growing season with a Blueberry Gleaning. This was a charity u-pick event with proceeds benefiting the Redlands […]

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A Puntalicious Day in Punta Gorda, Fla.

Yesterday was absolutely Puntalicious! My travel writer friend Lucy Tobias and I had a delicious time in Southwest Florida’s City of Punta Gorda. (Hence, I’m calling it Puntalicious!)

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Charity Strawberry U-Pick Event at Plant City’s Wish Farms April 6 & 7, 2013

Plant City is Florida’s sweet spot. It’s the Winter Strawberry Capitol of the World for the abundant strawberry farms and one of those is hosting a charity strawberry u-pick Saturday & Sunday, April 6 & 7 2013. Wish Farms located in Duette (about a 30-minute drive south of Plant City) will open a ready-to-pick strawberry field […]