Tampa Bay Collard Green Festival<\/a>\u00a0is located at Carter G. Woodson African American Museum at 2240 9th Ave. S., in St Pete
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The 2026 festival is scheduled for Saturday, February 14th, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m, during Presidents\u2019 Day weekend and Black History Month.
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Now in its ninth year, the free, family-friendly festival brings together over 18,000 attendees to celebrate Black culture, history, health equity, and community empowerment.
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Free collard green plants, entertainment, marketplace, music, healthy collard recipes, line-dancing class to Motown, soul music<\/p>\nThe 13-year-olds are prepping for Tampa Bay’s Collard Green Festival, in cooalition with a program for young entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe needed to figure out a way that our youth in this community who have businesses can benefit from this foot traffic,\u201d said festival co-founder Samantha Harris.<\/p>\n
The Fitzpatrick 8th graders are in their second year at the festival\u2019s young business owner\u2019s program.<\/p>\n
Since 2018, The Tampa Bay Collard Green Festival works as a community driven nonprofit to transform lives with good food, joy, movement, and culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Through student programs, school partnerships, and an annual city-defining festival, the Collard Green Festival addresses the root causes of poor health, limited opportunities, and social isolation, for one practical, sustainable change at a time.<\/p>\n
We meet people where they are and walk with them toward better health, stronger connections, and a higher quality of life, not just for a day, but for a lifetime.<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoy doing this because I get to meet new people and I get to experience different things,\u201d said Stevie Fitpatrick.<\/p>\n
They St. Pete duo are completing a 4-week online course studying topics like customer service and budgets. They earned food safety handling certificates and got a stipend.<\/p>\n
The twins encouraged other young people to start thinking of starting a business, or supporting their community.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could do anything you put your mind to, you just have to have the right mindset, and plan everything out, and budget,\u201d Stephanie Fitzpatrick said.<\/p>\n
Also look for an official taste tester \u2014 like a younger brother maybe? The girls have 8-year-old Steve.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the best sweet tea I ever tasted in my life,\u201d said Steve, after taking one sip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 It starts with a lemon, and then some liquid gold. And tea brewing teen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1595,767,274,770,104,28,115,4094,7149,139,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,7148,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-152155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-app-arts-entertainment","9":"tag-app-community","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-community-news","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-on-the-town","16":"tag-on-the-town-app","17":"tag-orlando","18":"tag-st-pete","19":"tag-st-pete-headlines","20":"tag-st-pete-news","21":"tag-st-petersburg","22":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","23":"tag-st-petersburg-news","24":"tag-tampa","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-virginia-johnson","27":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}