Honey Festival · Aug 22–23, 2030 · Grand Forks, North Dakota
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Dates: Thursday, August 22, 2030 to Friday, August 23, 2030 (2 days)
Venue: Riverside Park, 3300 S Columbia Road, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Type: Honey Festival
Grand Forks — North Dakota's third-largest city on the Red River of the North bordering Minnesota in Grand Forks County — occupies the heart of the Red River Valley, one of North America's most productive agricultural regions, where flat glacial lakebed soils support a vast patchwork of sunflower, canola, sweet clover, alfalfa, and buckwheat fields that yield some of the most abundant and distinctive honey harvests on the continent. This late-summer festival at Riverside Park celebrates Grand Forks-area beekeeping heritage with honey variety tastings, demonstrations of commercial-scale honey extraction, tours of the University of North Dakota botany research plots, and connections to the North Dakota Beekeepers Association whose members manage millions of bee colonies across the Red River Valley and Missouri Coteau. The event highlights the valley's transition from a dryland farming frontier to a sunflower and canola powerhouse, and the role of honey bees in the modern commodity crop landscape.
This listing does not state a price. Check ndbeekeepers.org for tickets, registration and times.
Official page: ndbeekeepers.org
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