Our 4th Annual HoneyBee Nut Festival is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 6, 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). We will be making walnut butter and roasting chestnuts on the campfire, fall foraging (root season!) and nature hikes in the AM and PM, networking with local nut experts, and helping Tantre establish a wild nut-centered, native polyculture.
Please consider joining us for our 4th Annual Nut Festival on October 6 for 2024.
This is a free event, registration is not required, but if you would like us to know you are coming, please sign up through our Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-honeybee-nut-festival-2024-registration-1038931872197?aff=oddtdtcreator
HoneyBee 4th Annual Nut Festival, Oct. 6, 2024 AGENDA:
10 AM – A conversation with Mike Levine from Nature and Nurture Seeds (https://natureandnurtureseeds.com/) on Perennial Polyculture Agroecology
11 AM – Nature Discovery Walk with Rachel Mifsud, founder of Will Forage for Food (https://willforageforfood.com/)
12:30 PM – Networking with new and experienced nut growers, warming by a bonfire, roasting nuts, snacks, and maybe even pressing apples for apple cider samples.
2:00 PM – Walnut Butter Demonstration and Wild Nut Hike by Washtenaw County Parks Naturalist, Shawn Severance
3:30 PM – Learning about hugelkultur, dead hedges, and keylines for carbon storage and water management in agroecology with Mike Appel of Appel Environmental Design (https://www.appelenvironmental.com/)
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, but it looks like it will be a sunny day! 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, 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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