Honey Fair · September 13–14, 2031 · York, Pennsylvania
York — the York County seat known as the "White Rose City" and home to the York Fair (one of America's oldest county fairs since 1765), situated in the rolling limestone farmland of south-central Pennsylvania where generations of German immigrant beekeepers established apicultural traditions that still flourish today, with the region's distinctive combination of black locust forests along creek corridors, basswood groves in Codorus State Park woodlands, buckwheat fields in the Susquehanna Valley, white clover pastures across York County's productive farmland, tulip poplar woodlands along Codorus Creek, and diverse Pennsylvania Dutch agricultural wildflower producing some of Pennsylvania's most celebrated varietal honeys — is home to one of the Mid-Atlantic's most historically rooted beekeeping communities. This September fair at the York Fairgrounds during the historic York Fair celebrates York County's deep Pennsylvania Dutch beekeeping heritage through producers from across York, Adams, Cumberland, and Dauphin counties, competitive honey shows featuring Pennsylvania's prized black locust, basswood, and buckwheat mono-varietal honeys, educational programs on the German and Swiss immigrant beekeeping traditions that shaped Mid-Atlantic apiculture, demonstrations of traditional wax processing and comb honey production methods, and culinary programs pairing local honey with York County's remarkable array of Lebanon bologna, artisan cheeses, shoofly pie, and Pennsylvania Dutch farmstead foods.
Type: Honey Fair
Date: September 13–14, 2031
Location: York Fairgrounds, 334 Carlisle Avenue, York, Pennsylvania
Official website: York White Rose City Pennsylvania Dutch Honey & Heritage Fair 2031
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