Scrubfest Homegrown 2025

One of the educational presentations during Scrubfest Homegrown 2025 will be about moringa, sometimes described as a “miracle tree.”

According to Sam Singleton of Scrubland Farmz Nursery, Scrubfest Homegrown 2025 will be a “food forest expo made up of local to North Central Florida businesses discussing the importance of also learning local.”

The plant festival will focus on edible, medicinal and native plants with a dozen presentations, plants for sale, food trucks, an artisan market and a kids’ zone.

The topics for the educational presentations will include: Homegrown Healing; Food Over Pharma; Farm to Table and the Importance of Carbon in Your Soil; Feed the Soul, Feed the Soil; Cutting the BS Out of Mushrooms; How the Ag Extension Office Can Help You; What’s so Great About Moringa?; Benefit From Good Herbs; Why Regionally Appropriate Seeds Are Important; Syntropic Gardening; Micro/Macronutrients and Building Herbal Immunity; and Why Kombucha is Amazing.

“With social media, people are asking the world what they should do instead of asking their neighbors. We’re just getting the folks connected to the right resources. This also gives the businesses the support they deserve. Everyone wins. Kids under 18 are admitted free, plus we’ll have a Kidz Workshop and play zone while the parents are getting educated. It’s going to be a lot of fun,” Singleton offered.

Scrubfest Homegrown 2025 will take place at Scrubland Farmz, 22505 NE 130th Court, Fort McCoy, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost for adults is $20 in advance or $25 the day of the event.

To learn more and get advance tickets, go to scrublandfarmznursery.com