7th annual Honey Festival to be held at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine
The annual Beckley Honey Festival is back for its seventh year.
The festival is set for Saturday, August 17, at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine and the Raleigh County Beekeepers Cooperative Association host this event in collaboration with each other.
“It is such a pleasure to be working with the Raleigh County Beekeepers Association to bring an event like this to Beckley again. The event has grown each year, and everyone loves the activities and really appreciates the opportunity to purchase locally sourced honey and learn about beekeeping and the importance of honeybees,” Parks and Recreation Director for Beckley, Leslie Gray Baker says. “From the underground tour at the Mine to the exhibits at the Youth Museum, our site is all about educating people in a unique way. Most of the time we educate about our Appalachian Coal heritage, but now, the third Saturday in August, is all about honey and the honeybee.”
At the festival, visitors will have the opportunity to learn how to raise bees, taste and purchase local honey, see live honeybee demonstrations, visit informational display tents, and participate in activities for the entire family.
“The broader public needs to be more aware of the myriad of issues that confront bees and how truly important they are to the agriculture industry worldwide. Anybody that really wants to learn about bees and beekeeping needs to come because the Raleigh County Beekeepers Cooperative Association can tell them everything they need to know. These guys are just great to work with, they have so much knowledge but even better, there will be local honey vendors selling their honey…how sweet is that,” adds Baker.
The event will have music all day along with specialty vendors and food vendors.
The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine is located at 513 Ewart adjacent to New River Park.
