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)

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

Face Painting:

Flower Crowns:

Inflatables