Join us in Portland, Tennessee for the 83rd Annual
Middle Tennessee Strawberry Festival!

In the early 1900’s Portland’s big industry was “strawberries.” In addition to the large number of farms and agricultural businesses growing the country’s finest berries, there was a crating factory, a fruit processing plant, a canning factory and a freezing facility producing strawberries for Breyers Ice Cream and other national brands.

During the peak of the strawberry business, Portland would ship out 30 railroad cars a day. Portland started hosting the Middle Tennessee Strawberry Festival in 1941 and that tradition continues today. Each year in mid-May the festival brings 40,000+ people together to celebrate the importance of the strawberry industry to Portland’s heritage.

Portland has become more industrialized over the past few decades, but we still have several local strawberry farmers who bring strawberries to sell at the Festival and have pick-your-own farms available in [...]

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