This past weekend my workplace held a Buzzfest Celebration providing an opportunity for visitors to harvest honey with the Beekeeping Master Gardeners and complete crafts and activities with 4H and Environmental Center staff & volunteers. Participants could uncap the frames with a heated knife, pour the honey into jars, take a honey taste test, make native pollinator seed balls, bamboo bundle bee shelters, look at bee and insect parts with a microscope, use bug eyes to experience bug vision, try on a bee suit, build-a-bee, roll a beeswax candle, read all about bees and more. Prizes like pollinator seed bags were provided when participants had their agenda booklet stamped at four or more activity stations.
David Alexander is author of the Buzz Into Action & Hop Into Action Science Curricula. He specializes in making nature accessible to people and wildlife. You can follow him at www.natureintoaction.com
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What a nice idea! I love this educational event! Compliments!!!
Thanks. It was great fun, especially watching the kids uncap the honey and bottle it into jars with very little help.
We The Honey Ladies definitely approve of this fest! Looks like a lot of fun!
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