Honey Festival · Jul 19–20, 2033 · Monterey, California
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Dates: Tuesday, July 19, 2033 to Wednesday, July 20, 2033 (2 days)
Venue: Custom House Plaza, 1 Custom House Plaza, Monterey, California
Type: Honey Festival
Monterey — the historic capital of California under Spain and Mexico, now a premier coastal city on the Monterey Peninsula where Point Pinos meets the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, in Monterey County where the Santa Lucia Range descends to meet the Pacific in a botanical drama that produces some of California's most distinctive coastal wildflower honey. The Monterey Peninsula's unique geography — a granite headland projecting into the cold California Current, surrounded by the Monterey Pines of Point Lobos and the Central Coast's coastal sage scrub, chaparral, and grassland communities — creates a honey landscape radically different from California's inland valleys. California sage (Salvia californica and S. mellifera) dominates the coastal chaparral from March through June, producing a honey with assertive herbal-sage aromatics prized by artisan honey enthusiasts; coastal buckwheat (Eriogonum latifolium) covers the headlands and bluff tops in white-pink clusters from July through September; sticky monkeyflower (Mimulus aurantiacus) blooms on every coastal slope from April through October; coyote brush blazes white across the coastal prairie in September through November; and the Del Monte Forest's Monterey pine and oak woodland supports a diverse spring wildflower community including coast trillium, hound's tongue, and Monterey paintbrush. The festival at Custom House Plaza celebrates the Monterey Bay area's artisan honey culture alongside the marine science heritage of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the scenic 17-Mile Drive's botanical diversity.
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