Redland GrowFest Celebrates Ancient Plant Connections, Hemp, Growing Season

Celebrate everything we grow in the Redland at the annual GrowFest! Oct 19-20 at Redland Fruit and Spice Park. This year's theme is Ancient Plant Connections – food, shelter, medicine, clothing – and spotlights hemp. Stock up on edible and native plants, seedlings and fruit trees. Talk with experts about what to plant and when. Workshops, demos and presentation, artisan foods, chef's local cookoff challenge, music, giveaways and fun for the whole family.

SATURDAY

• Are your fruit trees stressed out? Jonathan Crane, TREC
• Plant your tropical fruit tree demo, Jeff Wasielewski, UF/IFAS Extension
• Calabaza for South Florida, Geoffrey Meru, TREC
• Easy cooking with seasonal veggies, Thi Squire, Grow2Heal, Homestead Hospital
• New tropical fruits for South Florida, Dr. Alan Chambers, TREC
• Amateur local cookoff challenge
• Rain barrel workshop, Barbara McAdam
• Early days of the UF/IFAS hemp program, Zach Brym, TREC

SUNDAY

• Hemp in Florida, Dr. Jeffrey Block
• Chefs’ local cookoff challenge featuring Lisa Dorfman, The Running Nutritionist; Drew Thomason, executive chef, Homestead Hospital; Johnson Teh, Lan Pan Asian;  Rod Knight, executive chef, West Kendall Baptist Hospital
• Cooking with the other hemp, Ellen Kanner, Soulful Vegan
• Breadfruit, climate change and sea level rise, Patrick Garvey, Grimal Grove
• Dr. Perrine and the history of Sapodilla in South Florida, Robert Barnum, Possum Trot

All weekend: plant clinic with Master Gardeners