Downtown's beloved Strawberry Festival is ready for you

• The church uses every dollar made from the festival, after the cost of producing the treats, to provide grants to nonprofits that aid central Indiana families.

By the numbers: Hundreds of volunteers spend a week baking more than 15,000 shortcakes in the church basement, using a closely guarded recipe.

• The festival will go through four to six tons of strawberries and hundreds of buckets of ice cream and whipped toppings.

Of note: Construction on the Circle means you can't eat your snack on the steps of the monument this year, but the church will have tables and chairs.

• They've also added more lines, plus bulk order pickup and preorder options to move festival-goers through faster.

If you go: The festival starts at 9am and runs until 4pm or when they sell out, which usually happens, so don't wait.

• It's $10 for "the works," which is a shortcake with ice cream, strawberries in syrup and whipped toppings. Each piece can also be purchased a la carte, for $2 or $3.