Summer is a time of rest in the world's winter strawberry capital. Most of the fields in eastern Hillsborough County have been fallow since late spring, when the sheets of black plastic were pulled up and burned, the neat rows flattened, the commercial berry gardens gone to weed. ...more

September 3, 2008

Summer is a time of rest in the world's winter strawberry capital. Most of the fields in eastern Hillsborough County have been fallow since late spring, when the sheets of black plastic were pulled up and burned, the neat rows flattened, the commercial berry gardens gone to weed. ...more

September 3, 2008

Summer is a time of rest in the world's winter strawberry capital. ...more

August 27, 2008

In celebration of the strawberry season, patients at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital got to feast on strawberry shortcakes, get their faces painted and receive coloring books. ...more

February 11, 2008

Florida strawberry growers are still reeling from last month's freeze. Since the Jan. 3 freeze, strawberry production has dropped more than 30 percent compared with last year, costing growers and farmworkers more than $15 million, the Florida Strawberry Growers Association said Friday. Initially, industry officials projected a 10 percent to 15 percent loss. ...more

February 2, 2008

Last month's freeze destroyed more than a third of Florida's strawberry crop, costing growers and farmworkers more than $15 million, the Florida Strawberry Growers Association said Friday. ...more

February 1, 2008