Honey Festival · Oct 11–12, 2030 · Wilmington, North Carolina
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Dates: Friday, October 11, 2030 to Saturday, October 12, 2030 (2 days)
Venue: Airlie Gardens, 300 Airlie Road, Wilmington, North Carolina
Type: Honey Festival
Wilmington — North Carolina's largest coastal city at the mouth of the Cape Fear River in New Hanover County — anchors a longleaf pine savanna, Carolina bay wetland, and maritime forest landscape where beekeepers harvest gallberry, tallow tree, saw palmetto, and coastal wildflower honeys distinctive to the Lower Cape Fear region. This fall festival at Airlie Gardens celebrates Southeastern coastal beekeeping traditions, featuring honey from New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, and Columbus County producers, tours of the Airlie Oak pollinator garden and longleaf restoration plantings, sea-to-table honey and seafood pairings, and presentations by UNCW environmental science faculty on pollinator ecology in coastal Carolina ecosystems. The event spotlights the ecological importance of longleaf pine savanna restoration for native bees and honey quality across the Cape Fear coastal plain, where historic gallberry honeycombs once drove a thriving 19th-century honey trade through the Port of Wilmington.
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Official page: ncbeekeepers.org
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