July 10 | Landscape Design for Homeowners
location: West Kendall Regional Library: 10201 Hammocks Blvd. #159, Miami, FL
time: 7:00 -8:00pm
Join the UF/IFAS Miami-Dade County Extension Office at its landscape design workshop to learn how to turn your South Florida yard into a masterpiece. Visit the landscape design workshop July 10 to get tips from the Miami-Dade County Extension Office. Master gardeners Inara Mucenieks and Ernesto Clark will teach attendees the basics principles of landscape design for gardens in Miami, Florida and the importance of paying attention to details.
This workshop is free, and no registration is needed. For more information or to find out how to join the master gardener program, visit the office’s website.
July 11| South Dade Garden Club Meeting
location: Fruit and Spice Park | 24801 SW 187 Ave | Homestead, Florida 33031
date: Second Thursday of each month
time: 7:00pm
web: www.miamifruitandspicepark.com
July 12| Screening: The Fruit Hunter
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden |10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL
web: Fairchild Tropical Garden Event Website
time: 7:30 PM
venue: Visitor Center Ballroom
Join filmmaker Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze, China Heavyweight) and actor Bill Pullman Independence Day, While You Were Sleeping) in celebrating the amazing world of fruit for the very special South Florida premiere of “The Fruit Hunters,” a documentary by Chang starring Pullman and
Fairchild’s own curators of tropical fruit, Richard Campbell and Noris Ledesma.
Guests will be treated to tropical fruit tastings led by Campbell and Ledesma, a special introduction by Yung Chang and Bill Pullman, and the very first South Florida screening of “The Fruit Hunters.”
The film features Pullman trying his hardest to establish a community orchard in Hollywood while Campbell and Ledesma comb dense jungles in search of a rare mango. Follow the journey of other fruit hunters from around the world – a scholar studying depictions of fruit in paintings at an Italian monastery, a Honduran scientist researching the dangers of growing bananas as a monoculture,
a fruit expert growing ice-cream bean trees in Hawaii, and an indigenous tribe in Borneo saving fruit trees threatened by loggers.
With beautiful cinematography complete with delicious close-ups of rare fruits to satisfy every
epicurean craving, this is a film that can’t be missed.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for tropical fruit tastings. Movie begins at 8:00 p.m. Seats are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. To purchase tickets in advance, please email
[email protected] or call 305-667-1651, ext. 3303. If still available, tickets will be on sale in the Shop at Fairchild on Friday, July 12 at 7:30 p.m. Admission: $8 for members, $10 for
non-members
July 13-14 | Fairchild Garden Mango Festival
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road,Miami, FL 33156
time: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM
web: Fairchild Tropical Garden Event Website
This July, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden celebrates the mango at the 21st Annual International Mango Festival. During two days of festivities Fairchild Garden celebrates the mango as an
object of beauty and admiration, a subsistence crop for the people and as a niche and mainstream commercial fruit of the future. Mango experts and enthusiasts of the world will gather at Fairchild for formal learning in at the Grower’s Summit 2013, which will deliver specific recommendations on varieties and directions for growing the mango in the Americas.
Two full days of mango festivities will feature a wide range of products, ideas and of course the star of our show, the mango itself in all its glory. Mangos have been collected from the far reaches
of the globe and nurtured in South Florida, following in the footsteps of David Fairchild, the most venerable mango collector of them all. Mangos in every culinary creation, work of art and on every flat surface. Visit the festival to shop Curator Choice mango trees and fresh fruit, enjoy mango lectures and smoothies, view the world's largest display of mangos, take part in the world's only mango auction and buy mango merchandise and botanical art. There will also be mango culinary demonstrations, the Garden's one of a kind mango brunch, a fantastic International Fruit Market and fun activities for kids.
location: West Kendall Regional Library: 10201 Hammocks Blvd. #159, Miami, FL
time: 7:00 -8:00pm
Join the UF/IFAS Miami-Dade County Extension Office at its landscape design workshop to learn how to turn your South Florida yard into a masterpiece. Visit the landscape design workshop July 10 to get tips from the Miami-Dade County Extension Office. Master gardeners Inara Mucenieks and Ernesto Clark will teach attendees the basics principles of landscape design for gardens in Miami, Florida and the importance of paying attention to details.
This workshop is free, and no registration is needed. For more information or to find out how to join the master gardener program, visit the office’s website.
July 11| South Dade Garden Club Meeting
location: Fruit and Spice Park | 24801 SW 187 Ave | Homestead, Florida 33031
date: Second Thursday of each month
time: 7:00pm
web: www.miamifruitandspicepark.com
July 12| Screening: The Fruit Hunter
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden |10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL
web: Fairchild Tropical Garden Event Website
time: 7:30 PM
venue: Visitor Center Ballroom
Join filmmaker Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze, China Heavyweight) and actor Bill Pullman Independence Day, While You Were Sleeping) in celebrating the amazing world of fruit for the very special South Florida premiere of “The Fruit Hunters,” a documentary by Chang starring Pullman and
Fairchild’s own curators of tropical fruit, Richard Campbell and Noris Ledesma.
Guests will be treated to tropical fruit tastings led by Campbell and Ledesma, a special introduction by Yung Chang and Bill Pullman, and the very first South Florida screening of “The Fruit Hunters.”
The film features Pullman trying his hardest to establish a community orchard in Hollywood while Campbell and Ledesma comb dense jungles in search of a rare mango. Follow the journey of other fruit hunters from around the world – a scholar studying depictions of fruit in paintings at an Italian monastery, a Honduran scientist researching the dangers of growing bananas as a monoculture,
a fruit expert growing ice-cream bean trees in Hawaii, and an indigenous tribe in Borneo saving fruit trees threatened by loggers.
With beautiful cinematography complete with delicious close-ups of rare fruits to satisfy every
epicurean craving, this is a film that can’t be missed.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for tropical fruit tastings. Movie begins at 8:00 p.m. Seats are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. To purchase tickets in advance, please email
[email protected] or call 305-667-1651, ext. 3303. If still available, tickets will be on sale in the Shop at Fairchild on Friday, July 12 at 7:30 p.m. Admission: $8 for members, $10 for
non-members
July 13-14 | Fairchild Garden Mango Festival
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road,Miami, FL 33156
time: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM
web: Fairchild Tropical Garden Event Website
This July, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden celebrates the mango at the 21st Annual International Mango Festival. During two days of festivities Fairchild Garden celebrates the mango as an
object of beauty and admiration, a subsistence crop for the people and as a niche and mainstream commercial fruit of the future. Mango experts and enthusiasts of the world will gather at Fairchild for formal learning in at the Grower’s Summit 2013, which will deliver specific recommendations on varieties and directions for growing the mango in the Americas.
Two full days of mango festivities will feature a wide range of products, ideas and of course the star of our show, the mango itself in all its glory. Mangos have been collected from the far reaches
of the globe and nurtured in South Florida, following in the footsteps of David Fairchild, the most venerable mango collector of them all. Mangos in every culinary creation, work of art and on every flat surface. Visit the festival to shop Curator Choice mango trees and fresh fruit, enjoy mango lectures and smoothies, view the world's largest display of mangos, take part in the world's only mango auction and buy mango merchandise and botanical art. There will also be mango culinary demonstrations, the Garden's one of a kind mango brunch, a fantastic International Fruit Market and fun activities for kids.
DESIGN + INSTALLATION OF CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPES FOR A MODERN MIAMI
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