BUZZ ON DOWN TO THE PALISADE INTERNATIONAL HONEYBEE FESTIVAL

Saturday, April 12, 2025

We are buzzing around creating this year's Palisade International Honeybee Festival schedule and planning for a great spring in Colorado. We have not yet opened vendor registration for 2025. We will share updates on our Facebook page as soon as vendor registration is open.

We look forward to a buzzing great time in 2025. Visitors can be sure to enjoy local honey, honeybee related products, artisan vendors, and educational speakers and booths. Join us at 10 a.m. as we kickoff the festival at the Town Plaza in Downtown Palisade. Other events include costume contests for your pets, elementary school spelling bee, chef demonstrations and educational discussions.

Free parking is available at Palisade High School. Shuttles will be provided every 15 minutes by Absolute Prestige.

IChef Chad and Dixie B cooking with honey demo PIHF 2024

THANK YOU

A Heartfelt, Big Thank You

To our vendors who brought their great products and services along with their positive attitudes and sense of fun.
To our sponsors, especially to KREX , THE PLANET and Ryan/Sawyer Marketing who got the word out via TV, radio, the website and social media.
To KREX NEWS 5 on-air personalities Chief Meterologist Russ Pappas for live weather reports from Palisade: Ethan Noah and Jocelyn Stafford for presenting the Spelling Bee and Bee Costume Contest
To our guest speakers, Breann of Mt. Garfield Greenhouse, Mona from Bookcliff Gardens, Dan Bean from the Insectary and Chef Chad from Colorado Wine Country Inn to giving us tips on how to boost our gardens to attract bee, how to use insects for good, not evil, and how to whip up delicious food with honey.
To our Worker Bees: Michelle for wrangling vendor booths, Dixie for food demo and lining up speakers, Jim for outstanding photos, Kay for hosting a great reception, to Bridgett and Ruby for manning the Info booth, to James for the wonderful Meadery honey wines, Julia and Ellen for becoming bees for the day, the volunteers who read and entertained kids in Kendra's Hive, Molly and the Western Colorado Beekeepers for educating visitors, Palisade High Schoolers who helped with Costume Contest and Spelling Bee, Chris and David from WCI who did the heavy lifting, helping vendors.
To our outstanding, ever-present Master of Ceremonies for Ron Koss keeping us on track.
To Troy and his staff at the Town of Palisade who coordinated logistics for our event.
To the Chamber of Commerce for publicity, clerical, manpower support.
To the citizens of the Grand Valley, who always show up and celebrate agriculture and honeybees with us.

You made this Honeybee Festival the most successful one ever. We are Beeholden to you all.

The Organizing Committee

Palisade International Honeybee Festival

"A grassroots, volunteer educational committee."