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Mango Mania: The Ultimate Mango Experience

Louise King at Fruit and Spice Park's Summer Fruit Festival

Find out all you wanted to know about mangos in this one-day experience! Held Sun., June 28 at the Miami-Dade UF/IFAS Extension Office, this intensive mango experience will teach you about:

• Growing mango trees in Florida
• How new mango varieties are created
• Grafting and mango farm development

Speakers include Shannon Whobrey of Truly Tropical and Louise King, horticulturist at Fruit and Spice Park.

Tickets are $60 in advance and $75 at the door and include continental breakfast, up to 150 mango varieties to taste, a bag of mangos to take home and free admission to Fruit and Spice Park after the event. Proceeds benefit projects at Fruit and Spice Park.

Buy tickets online at tfvsr.org/mm.

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