Brooksville Blueberry Festival:

### Blueberry harvest shares stage with wildlife, natural wonders
As Florida’s strawberry harvest winds down, the packing houses turn their attention to home-grown blueberries.
And like the strawberry harvest, the berry growers of Central Florida hate to miss an opportunity for a party as the harvest celebrations shift from Plant City to nearby Brooksville, where the Brooksville Blueberry Festival occurs annually at the end of April.
You may not think of Florida as blueberry country, but the state is now eighth in the nation in blueberry production. (Twenty years ago, there was no blueberry production, but University of Florida developed the ‘Southern Highbush’ varieties that require very few hours of chill for growth.) Brooksville is the center of 15 Florida counties that grow blueberries.
The Brooksville Blueberry Festival is the blue cousin to Plant City’s very large
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