Let one of our knowledgeable tour guides be your class’s guide to the Garden! Garden-guided school group tours are available weekday mornings throughout the school year.
We offer these popular options:
K-12 Educational Classes
Nutrition
Class on Bees: Discover bees’ big impact in our ecosystem despite their tiny size! The class will discuss how bees work together, coordinate tasks among the hive to protect their queen, make honey and pollinate the world. We will uncover what is inside the hive by opening the bee box together so everyone can see how beekeepers harvest honey. Then we will take a tour of Fruit and Spice park and see pollinators in action.
Duration of program: 1 hour and 30 minutes
These programs can be scaled to be age and ability appropriate.
You may also consider a standards-aligned themed tour that highlights areas of the Garden that best illustrate concepts in botany, ecology and natural science.
Nutrition Class
Class on Nutrition: Discover all the benefits of tropical fruit! Explore why what we eat MATTERS! The class will discuss what a healthy meal looks like by going over the “Healthy MyPlate” and the different foods that make up each section together and the role fruits play in what we should be eating. Then we will take a tour of Fruit and Spice park and see how fruits grow and learn so much more about them.
Duration of program: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Book your educational class by calling 305.247.5727 or email fruit.spice@miamidade.gov.
Field Trips
Bring your school group to enjoy Fruit and Spice in a guided tour through all of our regions and learn about ethnobotany. A one and only experience that bridges our connection to the plant world.
- Middle and Elementary Schools: $3 per student
- High Schools: $4 per student
- One chaperone free for every 10 children
Book your field trip by calling 305.247.5727 or email fruit.spice@miamidade.gov .
Tasting Tour available daily at 3 PM starting October 1,2022.
Encounter each of our regions using your taste buds as you taste your way through Fruit and Spice Park. Every season there is something new and for the first time we are offering our tour guides to help you identify what is ripe, edible and delicious to taste.
Tour Duration: 45 minutes
- Adults $15 per adult
- Child $8 Ages 6-11
- Children 5 and under FREE
Capacity is 30, please RSVP by calling 305.247.5727.
Private Group Tours
- Adults $15 per adult
- Child $8 Ages 6-11
- Children 5 and under FREE
Policy Overview for Group Tours:
- Up to 2 free tour guides
- Booking requests must be made at least 2 weeks in advance.
- Cancellations require notification of at least 7 days in advance.
- Deposit of 50% of total booking cost is required for reservation. Payment to be paid in full upon arrival on your booking date.
- Group Charge is not refundable within 7 days of your booking date.
Book your group tour by calling 305.247.5727 or email fruit.spice@miamidade.gov .
These programs can be scaled to be age and ability appropriate.
You may also consider a standards-aligned themed tour that highlights areas of the Garden that best illustrate concepts in botany, ecology and natural science.