Calling All Queens: Prepare for Brevard County 2026 Fruit Festival Pageant Season
By Space Coast Daily // December 29, 2025
Advanced registration is free and recommended
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The Space Coast Fruit Festival Pageants are returning, starting in February 2026. Each festival will host a pageant, offering girls and women of all ages the opportunity to take home a crown.
The Space Coast Fruit Festivals will be a weekend-long, family festival designed to create a fun environment for people to enjoy affordable, healthy, and wholesome fun at Space Coast Daily Park in Viera on Florida’s Space Coast.
• The Space Coast Key Lime Pie Festival will take place on February 21-22.
• The Space Coast Strawberry Festival will take place on April 11-12.
Both events will take place at the Space Coast Daily Park, located at 5775 Stadium Parkway in Melbourne.
Learn more about the Space Coast Key Lime Pie Festival.
Learn more about the Space Coast Strawberry Festival.
Now Introducing New Categories
Both pageants offer a variety of age categories to participate in:
● Little Miss: ages 3-6
● Miss: ages 7-12
● Teen Miss: ages 13-19
● Ms: ages 20-39
● Elite: ages 40+ (NEW)
Each category will also have a fan favorite chosen by the audience and a most photogenic winner chosen based on the submitted registration photo.
Advanced registration is free and recommended.
• Rules and registration information for Miss Strawberry Festival Pageant
• Rules and registration information for Miss Key Lime Pie Pageant.
Be sure to check out all the other contests, events, and activities taking place at each festival.
For questions regarding the Space Coast Fruit Festival contests, email Beth.SpaceCoastDaily@gmail.com
In preparation for the 2026 Fruit Festival Pageants at Space Coast Daily Park, Ms. Florida Petite 2023 is now offering weekly low-cost pageant coaching for all ages.
Coaching sessions are inclusive of all pageant content, including stage walk, speeches, outfits, hair and makeup, posing, posture, confidence building, and cause preparation.
Coaching is $50 per student, per session. Guests may accompany students for free. Payment is required at the time of reservation. In the event of a cancellation, your payment can be rolled over to your next appointment.
Be prepared to take the stage at the 2026 Fruit Festivals, beginning in February, and register for the Space Coast Strawberry Festival Pageant and the Space Coast Key Lime Pie Festival Pageant today.
About the Coach: Beth York is the official host of the Space Coast Strawberry Festival and the Space Coast Key Lime Pie Festival contests. She represented Brevard County as Ms. Florida Petite 2022-2023 and placed second runner-up at the Petite USA National Competition 2023.
York has over 18 years of modeling, stage performance, circus artistry, dance instruction, and pageant experience. She has performed at large-scale events all over the country, collaborated with celebrities, and been featured in multiple publications and the runways of New York Fashion Week.
There is nothing she enjoys more than building confidence and know-how in girls and women, passing the torch, and giving back to the Brevard County community. She says, “Of all the things I’ve done, crowning other girls is the pinnacle of my career.”
