Honeybee Festival Schedule

Education is promoted through the arts, crafts, lectures, food preparation, demonstrations and distribution of published materials. Our festival highlights the many beneficial products that derive from honeybees. Honeybees help all of us from personal consumption of honey to the pollination of commercial orchards and other crops.

Festival Street Vendor Map

Spelling Bee Info

Palisade International Honeybee Festival Schedule

Welcoming Reception
Friday, April 12, 5-8 pm, Blue Pig Gallery

Art is Our Bee’s Wax/ Exhibit & Reception

Hors d’Oeuvres / Blue Pig Artists / Gallery
Honey Wine Tasting / Meadery of the Rockies / Gallery
Colorado Bees / Nikki Florio, Bee Heroic / Upstairs
Bee Friendly Plants / Mona Dyer, Bookcliff Gardens / Upstairs
Friendly Insects / Demo / Dan Bean, Palisade Insectary / Gallery
Demo Beehive, Jack Moore, Western Colorado Beekeepers Association

Live Broadcast, KREX NEWS 5 Weather. Chief Meteorologist Kris Nation

Saturday, April 13, 2019
11 am – 4 pm

Festival, 3rd and Main Streets, Town Plaza

Master of Ceremonies/Musician: Ron Koss

8:00 am	Vendor Setup	Tom Underwood, Chris Christensen, David Gordon Assisting
9:00 am	Third & Main Streets Closed
10:30 am	Live Music	Live Music by The Pollinators / Plaza, Third Street Celebrating the life of Brett Smithers, Pollinator Musician
11:00 am	Festival Opens	Festival Opens / Town Plaza Welcome by Master of Ceremonies Ron Koss
11:00 am to 12:00 pm	Lecture at Plaza Tent	Bee Friendly Plants and How to Grow Them Best Garden, Bee Practices / Dennis Hill and Mona Dyer, Bookcliff Gardens
12:00 pm	Story Hour / Palisade Library (3rd St)	Favorite Bee Books / Elise Forte, Librarian
12:15 pm	Chefs’ Demos / Plaza Tent	Cooking With Honey / Dixie Burmeister, Dixie’s Food for Thought John Sabal, Owner & Executive Chef, Palisade Café Dave Kassera, Executive Chef, Wine Country Inn
1:30 pm	Best Honeybee Costume Contest / Plaza	Calling All Kids, Dogs, Grownups / Carol Zadrozny & Friends
2:00 pm	KREX NEWS 5 Spelling Bee / Plaza	Teams Competing for Prizes / Elementary Grades Students Katerina Chryssafis, KREX News 5, Moderator
3:30 pm	Demo, Lecture / Plaza Tent	How Bugs Help Plants / Dan Bean, Director of Palisade Insectary
4:00 pm	Close/Cleanup
All Day	Children’s Hands-on Activities in Kendra’s Hive Special Tent on 3rd Food, Drink available in local restaurants and from vendors on Main and 3rd. Streets Information Booth in Plaza Public Rest Rooms available on North East Corner of Main Street