{"id":64076,"date":"2026-03-24T21:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T01:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=64076"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T01:19:21","slug":"the-18th-annual-keel-farms-blueberry-festival-kicks-off-tampa-bays-spring-season-with-a-month-long-celebration-of-floridas-blueberry-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/03\/24\/the-18th-annual-keel-farms-blueberry-festival-kicks-off-tampa-bays-spring-season-with-a-month-long-celebration-of-floridas-blueberry-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"The 18th\u00a0Annual Keel Farms Blueberry Festival kicks-off Tampa Bay\u2019s Spring Season with a month-long celebration of Florida\u2019s Blueberry Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 18th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Keel Farms Blueberry Festival kicks-off Tampa Bay\u2019s Spring Season with a month-long celebration of Florida\u2019s Blueberry Harvest.<\/strong>\u00a0Every Saturday & Sunday in April, starting Saturday April 4th (Closed for Easter Sunday April 5th<\/sup>). The festival will be open 10am to 3pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This family\u00a0& pet-friendly weekend event will feature\u00a0u-pick blueberries,\u00a0local craft vendors and food trucks, bounce houses and a kid\u2019s zone, camel rides, a petting zoo, blueberry shortcake eating competitions, games and special blueberry releases by Keel & Curley Winery and Keel Farms Agrarian Cider.<\/p>\n\n\n

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  • Where<\/strong>: Keel Farms, 5202 Thonotosassa Road Plant City, FL\u00a0(15 miles east of Tampa)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • When<\/strong>:\u00a0Sat\/Sun:\u00a0April\u00a0<\/sup>4,\u00a011&12,\u00a018&19, 25&26 (Closed Easter Sunday April 5)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Time: 10am \u2013 3pm<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Blueberry U-Pick<\/strong>: Offered each day of the festival while supplies last and weather permits. Harvested pre-packaged blueberries will also be available for purchase by the pound. Buckets are included for U-Pick.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Free Admission \/ $10 parking<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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    The 18th\u00a0Annual Keel Farms Blueberry Festival kicks-off Tampa Bay\u2019s Spring Season with a month-long celebration of Florida\u2019s Blueberry Harvest.\u00a0Every Saturday & Sunday in April, starting Saturday April 4th (Closed for… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"14","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDNcL2JiLWNsb3NlLXVwLTEud2VicD9maXQ9MTAyNCUyQzU3NiZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IlRoZSAxOHRoXHUwMGEwQW5udWFsIEtlZWwgRmFybXMgQmx1ZWJlcnJ5IEZlc3RpdmFsIGtpY2tzLW9mZiBUYW1wYSBCYXlcdTIwMTlzIFNwcmluZyBTZWFzb24gd2l0aCBhIG1vbnRoLWxvbmcgY2VsZWJyYXRpb24gb2YgRmxvcmlkYVx1MjAxOXMgQmx1ZWJlcnJ5IEhhcnZlc3QiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.evBanms6yarwlLpaj2TG963Qx8aCLu61fl28j7Li5hAMQ"},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[14185],"class_list":["post-64076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-the-18th-annual-keel-farms-blueberry-festival-kicks-off-tampa-bays-spring-season-with-a-month-long-celebration-of-floridas-blueberry-harvest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64081,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64076\/revisions\/64081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}