{"id":19886,"date":"2016-04-03T17:16:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T16:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frenchduck.com\/latest\/?p=19886"},"modified":"2025-05-10T14:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:57:04","slug":"brittany-strawberry-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchduck.com\/latest\/brittany-strawberry-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittany Strawberry Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The small Brittany port of Plougastel-Daoulas<\/strong> (29 Finist\u00e8re, Brittany) celebrates with its annual Strawberry Festival (F\u00eate des Fraises<\/em>) on the second Sunday in June (8 J<\/span><\/mark><\/strong>une 2025<\/strong><\/span>)<\/mark> – see www.fetedesfraises.com<\/a>\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Celebrating its 70th Anniversary in 2016, the festival featured the strawberry in all its guises and offers folk dancing and folk singing, parades and music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They take the Strawberry seriously here, as it is an important part of the local economy, such that in addition to the Strawberry Festival there is also a Museum of the Strawberry and Heritage<\/a> (Mus\u00e9e de la Fraise et de la Patrimoine<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Strawberries of Plougastel are known throughout France for the abundance of fruit and their sweetness and quality which comes from the moistness of the atmosphere and well-drained soils in this part of far west Brittany, just east of Brest<\/strong>. This variety of strawberry originated in Chile.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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The region is famous for its production of strawberries (gariguette de Plougastel). The New World species of strawberry, Fragaria chiloensis, which had been introduced into France by Am\u00e9d\u00e9e-Fran\u00e7ois Fr\u00e9zier (1682\u20131773), flourished in the marine climate of Plougastel. Gardeners there had observed that this species bore abundant fruit when Fragaria moschata and Fragaria virginiana were planted in alternating rows with it. There had been failed attempts to cultivate fragaria chiloensis in Anjou, Touraine, and the lower-Loire areas. (wikipedia<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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