Texas Strawberry Festivals in 2024

Looking for a strawberry festival in Texas in 2024? (just scroll down the page)There is no other listing as complete and current as this list, just updated! All the strawberry festivals in Texas we can find are listed on this page! If you love strawberries, look for a festival near you below! And I'm always looking for more strawberry festivals! Please write me, if you know of any to add!  I update the dates as soon as the festivals publish their information, but you can always click on the links (usually the name of the festival) to see the current information on the festival's own website. 

Always click on the links to the festival to confirm this year's dates; weather and other conditions could cause a change at the last minute. They may change or cancel at the last minute. . If they don't have a website, call the phone number provided, but ALWAYS CONFIRM THIS YEAR'S DATES AND TIMES BY EITHER VIEWING THEIR WEBSITE OR CALLING.

Click here for the form to add a festival and have detailed information; or click here if you have general information and are not connected with the event!

Texas 2024 Strawberry Festivals - Where, When and More Details!

Texas

There are two general types of strawberry festivals 1) community festivals, usually organized by a church, school, local Chamber of commerce or a town and 2). Strawberry festival held at and by a farm

They are different in what they offer, so they are grouped separately. (of course not all states and areas have both. And following the festival listings are links to our easy to follow directions about making strawberry jam, freezing strawberries, strawberry pies and much more. 

Community Strawberry Festivals

• Pasdena Strawberry Festival - mid May weekend (May 11 - 22, 2022, check their website for other year's dates)
  Fairgrounds, 7603 Red Bluff Rd, Pasadena, TX 77507. Phone: (281) 991-9500. Email: LINDAE@STRAWBERRYFEST.ORG. Presenting Texas' largest Strawberry Shortcake again this year! Be sure and have a heapin' helpin' of this great Texas tradition. Enjoy this year's carnival provided by Crabtree Amusements, with lots of fun and exciting rides with daily ride specials (to be announced).  There's also a children's entertainment and activity area with FREE games, clowns, a petting zoo, pony rides, and historical craft demonstrations by Armand Bayou Nature Center.  And MANY other events! Credit cards or checks are not accepted for the purchase of admission tickets or coupons at the grounds. Pets are not allowed on the Fairgrounds. Visitors are prohibited from bringing ice chests or alcoholic beverages onto the Fairgrounds. Click here to download the Pasadena Strawberry Festival brochure! (PDF, 372K)
• Poteet Strawberry Festival - It is held over three days during the second weekend in mid April. (April 22, 23 & 24 in 2022 - check their website for other year's dates)
  One of the oldest, most popular events in the state of Texas, the Annual Poteet Strawberry Festival is recognized as the largest agricultural fete in Texas as well as one of the most exciting, most dynamic festivals in the Greater Southwest. The 95 acre site which is located on Hwy. 16, 20 minutes south of San Antonio, offers free parking, clean public restrooms, handicapped accessibility, complete RV facilities, and tent covered activities during the fun filled Festival Weekend. The Poteet Strawberry Festival includes ten areas of continuous, family entertainment featuring concerts with nationally know Country / Western and Tejano stars, dancers, gunslingers, clowns, puppets, regional bands, various contests, and rodeo performances. These activities are included in the price of an admission ticket. Children under the age of 10 are admitted free of charge.  Phone: (210) 742-8144. Poteet is a small town on State Highway 16, just outside of San Antonio, TX, and is the "Strawberry Capital of Texas".

Farm Strawberry Festivals

In addition to community and church festivals, some private farms have their own strawberry festivals in June.  See each farm for this year's dates (they often do not announce them until the end of May). They usually have PYO strawberries then, too.  Also, scroll down to see the links to recipes, freezing, canning and jam making directions at the bottom of the page.

• We will be adding these as we find them;  Please write me, if you know of any to add!

Related Strawberry Information: Freezing, making Jam, Canning, Pies, Recipes and More

Also, see our pages on easy illustrated strawberry directions:

• How to freeze strawberries!
• Strawberry jam (with pectin) (uses less sugar or honey and less cooking)
• Strawberry jam (without pectin) (requires much more sugar and cooking)
• Strawberry (and other berry) jams without sugar
• Strawberry jelly
• Strawberry-rhubarb jam!
• Homemade strawberry ice cream (regular, low fat, nonfat, low sugar, vanilla and even gelato)
• Canning strawberries
• Make gourmet chocolate-covered strawberries
• How to make fruit juice -  strawberry and other berries
• Strawberry pie filling
• Easy Rhubarb-Strawberry pie
• Fig-strawberry jam
• Fig-strawberry jam, made with Jell-O gelatin

For other fruit and vegetable festivals, see this page!