Our 6th Annual HoneyBee Nut Festival is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 11, from 10 AM to 5 PM. Celebrate the Earth and the seasons with a FREE, fun, outdoors event at HoneyBee U-pick (5700 Scio Church Rd, AA). In the past years, we have made walnut butter, acorn flour, hickory nut milk, fresh pressed apple cider, and roasted chestnuts on the campfire. Fall foraging (root season!) and nature hikes will be available in the AM and PM, along with networking with local nut experts, and learning about how the HoneyBee property continues to become a wild, nut-centered, native polyculture. Please save the date and join us!
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This year’s Agenda TBD
HoneyBee 5th Annual Nut Festival Agenda (Held Oct. 12, 2025)
110 AM Talk with Marc Boone, owner of one of the only cultivated pawpaw orchards in Michigan and member of the Michigan Nut & Fruit Growers Association (https://michigannut.org/)
11 AM Nature Discovery Walk with Will Forage for Food (https://willforageforfood.com/) founder, Rachel Mifsud
12 PM Black Walnut Processing with walnut enthusiasts, Billy & Zyla Sullivan, who will share a demonstration of methods for dehulling, curing, cracking and shelling black walnuts, one of our finest Midwestern delicacies.
12 PM Networking with new and experienced nut growers, warming by a bonfire, roasting nuts, snacks, and pressing apples for apple cider samples.
1:30 PM Cooking with Nuts: A Conversation with Kori Kanayama, a community farm chef. Come meet and chat with folks who like to cook special dishes with local nuts and exchange ideas. Kori will facilitate and share what she does with chestnuts. Bring recipes and questions.
2:30 PM Nut Tree ID Walk with Washtenaw County Parks Naturalist, Shawn Severance. Learn to identify wild nut trees using bark, buds and leaves in the context of their native plant community.
3:30 PM Michigan Nuts with Rachel Mifsud. Learn about the various nuts that grow wild in our area. We will talk about how to harvest, store, and process nuts for eating (nut flours, nut milks, nut butter, etc.)
5 PM – Thanks for coming!
Kid friendly event! This event is best for able-bodies since this is uneven terrain. Please supervise your children at all times. Well-behaved dogs on leashes are welcome. Please keep an eye on the weather to be prepared for how to dress, since many of the activities are outside. Our beautiful timber frame barn will be open for shelter, and a campfire will be available for warming. Please bring snacks, a water bottle, and boots. We will provide some hot cider, hot tea, water, snacks, and Roos Roast coffee! No alcohol or drugs permitted.
Throughout the day we also hope to be roasting chestnuts, cracking and tasting different kinds of nuts and paw paws, pressing apples to make apple cider, carving pumpkins, and many other fun activities. The raspberry u-pick patch is not as productive this years as we would like, but it will also be open for picking, along with Tantre Farm produce, local honey, local eggs, and pumpkins for sale! Bring some friends and have fun helping to learn about nuts, agroecology, and build community!
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