Honey Festival · Aug 16–17, 2033 · Cherryfield, Maine
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Dates: Tuesday, August 16, 2033 to Wednesday, August 17, 2033 (2 days)
Venue: Narraguagus River Park, Cherryfield, Maine
Type: Honey Festival
Cherryfield — the 'Blueberry Capital of the World' on the Narraguagus River in Washington County, Downeast Maine — is the epicenter of wild lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) production in North America: Washington County accounts for approximately 99% of the nation's wild blueberry crop, with over 60,000 acres of managed blueberry barrens stretching from Cherryfield east to Jonesport and Machias on the Bay of Fundy coast. The thin, acidic, well-drained soils left by the retreating Laurentide ice sheet, the cool maritime climate, and the traditional biennial burn-and-crop management cycle that Wabanaki peoples practiced for thousands of years before European contact create precisely the conditions the wild lowbush blueberry requires. In June, when the blueberry barrens bloom, tens of thousands of managed honey bee colonies from across New England are trucked to the Washington County barrens for pollination — and beekeepers harvest a genuinely rare monofloral product: Maine wild blueberry honey, with a delicate fruit-floral aroma, light golden color, clean sweet taste with a subtle berry quality, and fine granulating texture. Maine blueberry honey is one of the few truly monofloral honeys produced in New England and has developed a devoted following among specialty honey consumers seeking the brief annual harvest window. The festival at the Narraguagus River Park celebrates both the Wabanaki and Yankee heritage of the barrens, with live blueberry honey extraction demonstrations from local apiaries, Penobscot and Passamaquoddy cultural programming on the Indigenous origins of the blueberry barrens management tradition, and tastings of the year's freshly harvested blueberry honey alongside other Downeast Maine specialty foods.
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Official page: mainebeekeepers.org
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