The Dade City Garden Club and The City of Dade City are happy to announce the Monarch Butterfly Festival will be back in Dade City in 2026.
The Festival will be held on Saturday, April 18, 2026, in our beautiful Touchton Park, with festivities flowing out into the gardens of the Dade City Garden Club! We will have a Kids’ Zone, entertainment, educational exhibits and an eclectic market and plant sale that will satisfy any shopper.
Sponsor Opportunities
We are offering several sponsorship opportunities. Deadline is September 15, 2025.
Vendors Wanted
We are looking for local artisans, farm fresh specialties, plants, and green unique offerings. If you want to be considered, email a photo of your products and display to
The Dade City Garden Club's Monarch Project leads a community effort to increase awareness and educate the public on the importance of helping the Monarch butterfly and other pollinators. The Dade City Garden Club has partnered with the City of Dade City to establish Dade City as a Monarch City USA and promotes the Monarch Project through workshops, creating Monarch habitat by certifying Monarch Butterfly Havens in Dade City and hosting the annual Monarch Butterfly Festival in Dade City.
Seventeen committee members representing all six circles and members at large are active in organizing and promoting the Project’s activities.
What began as a simple discussion among garden club members has evolved into what we hope will be a movement, one that will bring together the young and the old, families and businesses, churches and politicians—all working together to create a better Dade City.
- Certified Monarch Butterfly Haven
Through its designation as a Monarch City USA, Dade City, FL has pledged to help the Monarch Butterfly.
You can help by planting a Monarch Butterfly Haven right in your backyard.
- Monarch Waystation
Our Butterfly Garden at the garden club has been certified as a Monarch Waystation!
The certification of this garden completes the initial phase of goals of the Monarch Project established to work with the City to fulfill its pledge as a Monarch City USA. The Club created the new garden and planted it with several varieties of nectar and host plants and worked to have the area certified as a Monarch Waystation.