The Blue Ridge Bee Festival

The Blue Ridge Bee Festival is a FREE community event aimed to promote all things bees, pollinators, native plants, local food, and sustainable living right here in the Blue Ridge region!
The festival will be hosted at Falling Creek Park in Bedford, Virginia, 10am-4:30pm.
The festival will have:
-A swarm of 50+ vendors
-Guest Speakers
-Honey Tasteing
- Multiple Observation Hives
-Kids Activities
-Music
-Food Trucks
-Demonstrations
-Mead & Craft Beverages
-Giveaways & Raffle Items
& More!
Dog Friendly (must be on leash)
VENDOR APPLICATION:
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Volunteer Sign Up:
www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044FAAA72CA6FECE9-61242814-blue
Coming from out of town? Awesome!
Here are some local options: destinationbedfordva.com/accommodations/
FESTIVAL INFO!
Heres the good buzz you need to know for the The Blue Ridge Bee Festival!
10:00am – Gates Open
11am-1pm – MUSIC -
11am-11:30am - Educational Talk
11:45am – 12:15pm - Educational Talk
12:30pm-1:00pm - Educational Talk -
12:30pm-1:00pm – Vendor Demo
1-2pm – Raffle Drawing
1:15pm-1:45pm - Educational Talk
2:15pm - 4:15pm -MUSIC
2:30pm - Educational Talk
3:15pm-4:00pm - Vendor Talk
KIDS ACTIVITIES:
Butterfly Bingo – All Day - Find all 12 of the hidden butterfly pictures located at various vendor booths, get your card stamped, and turn in your bingo card to information booth to get a FREE packet of flower seeds!
Craft Activities: 11am-4pm - A super fun mix of facilitated & non-facilitated activities (i.e seed bombs!) with Virginia Cooperative Extension 4H + Master Gardeners. Booths 70/71