Honey Bee Harvest Festival celebrates its fourth year in Niwot

The fourth annual https://niwot.com/events/niwot-3rd-annual-honeybee-harvest-festival-637/" target="_blank">https://niwot.com/events/niwot-3rd-annual-honeybee-harvest-festival-637/" target="_blank">Honey Bee Harvest Festival will be held on Sept. 7 on Second Avenue and in Cottonwood Square in Niwot. The Festival celebrates valuable pollinators with lots of events, educational talks, music, food, and honey for the whole family.

The day starts with a Honey Bee Breakfast at the Niwot Market at 8:00-11:00 a.m. A children's storytime and fun bee crafts will be in the Kid's Art Tent on Second Avenue from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. DRF Slifer Smith and Frampton Real Estate will get everyone in the bee spirit by distributing free bee antennas and flying around with the Queen Bee from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Blessings Day Spa, featuring Gina Patterson, will paint faces, and Blue Sky Craft Studio will perform a "Bee Fun Puppet Show" from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.

The Niwot Emporium will be teaching festival goers how to roll beeswax candles, and Few of a Kind Mercantile will have free honey caramels for children. The Former Feed Store Gallery will host two beeswax art demonstrations at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., and will host the Open Studios Pollinator Art Show all day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Local vendors can be found in bee-autiful booths along Second Avenue all day, offering mead tasting from local meaderies, food trucks, observation hives, and live music.

One of the larger educational events during the festival, The Tom Theobald Speaker Series, will be ongoing at the Left Hand Grange from 10 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. in roughly 30 minute sessions. Subjects include how to care for bees, mead making, wasps, how to create a "bee buffet" in your backyard and the life of the queen bee.

"A cornerstone of the festival is the Tom Theobald Speaker Series at the historic Niwot Grange Hall on 2nd Ave., named in honor of Tom who passed away in 2021," said the Honey Bee Harvest Festival organizing committee, which includes Victoria Keen, Dawn Server, and Deb Fowler. "He was a beekeeper in Niwot for 40 years and a fierce advocate for pollinators throughout his life. Enjoy fascinating talks by experts on bees, beekeeping, and other topics."

The full Tom Theobald Speaker Series schedule can be found here or at https://niwot.com/events/niwot-3rd-annual-honeybee-harvest-festival-637/

Live music throughout town will entertain all festival goers all day long. The Niwot Emporium Tent will feature Jenn Cleary from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Pete Wernick from 12:00 - 2:00 p.m., and the Niwot Decaf House Blend Band from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

On the patio outside Cimmini's, Kevin Dooley will perform from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Tony Crank from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m., and the Niwot Community Semi-Marching Free Grange Band from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. "Let It Bee" and "Born to Bee Wild" are rumored to be on the set list.

Farow restaurant in Cottonwood Square will be adding hot honey chicken sandwiches during lunch and will offer a special happy hour featuring cocktails with honey. In addition to hosting breakfast, the Niwot Market will have green chili roasting available the entire day.

There will also be plenty of other food options during the festival as well, including a variety of food trucks. La Musette will be hosting a Honey Bee Brunch on Murray Street from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Be sure to stop by Georgia Boys BBQ, It's All Greek to Me, Nacho Mama's Tacos, Sweet Cow MooMobile, and I Scream Colorado food trucks.

Finally, circle back around to The Wheel House for Bee Trivia from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. after a fun day of buzzing around Niwot!

For more information and a full schedule of events, click here or visit https://niwot.com/events/niwot-3rd-annual-honeybee-harvest-festival-637/.