Feast at these food festivals happening near Lakeland

When it comes to hyperspecific food festival themes, Central Florida has the recipe down pat.

A person in black gloves sprays whipped cream onto a blueberry shortcake in a clear plastic container at a festival.

If shortcake is a main food group for you, enter Keel Farms’ blueberry shortcake eating contests.

Photo by Keel Farms

In Florida, there’s a food festival to satisfy anyone’s palate. Grab your tickets to the tastiest events on the menu for April.

Keel Farms Blueberry Festival
Head to this Plant City farm for u-pick, camel rides, and a vendor market on Saturdays + Sundays in April (except Easter Sunday on April 5). Admission is free, and parking is $10.

Sebring Soda Festival
Life is the bubbles in downtown Sebring, where you’ll find fizzy family fun and 200+ craft sodas to sample. Get tickets to join Saturday, April 11-Sunday, April 12.

Festival del Sanguich
Latin sandwiches will go bread-to-bread in a competition during the Lakeland Flying Tigers’ Hispanic Heritage Night game on Friday, April 24. Admission is included with your game ticket.

Orlando Pickle Festival
This sour soiree on Saturday, April 25 at Festival Park promises “an aggressive amount of pickles,” including a themed market and pickle mechanical bull. Whatever that means.