Help local farmers celebrate nut trees and polyculture for the future of food and the planet! This free event is good for all ages.About this Event
You are invited to the 3rd annual "HoneyBee Nut Festival" on Oct. 8 from 10 AM until 5 PM! Come celebrate the Earth and the seasons with a free, fun, outdoors event on this beautiful 160-acre property at our HoneyBee U-pick patch (5700 Scio Church Rd., Ann Arbor).
There will be different events such as nature walks, talks, and demonstrations. You can learn about perennial polyculture, hugelkultur, paw paws, making walnut butter, explore the world of foraging on a wild nut hike, and listen to nut experts tell us more about how nut trees fit into our agroecology.
- 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 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/) on Perennial Polyculture Agroecology
- 5 PM - Thanks for coming!
Throughout the day, we also hope to be roasting, chestnuts, tasting different kinds of nuts, pressing apples to make apple cider, and many other fun activities. The raspberry u-pick patch will also be open for fresh, tasty, fall raspberry picking, along with Tantre Farm produce HoneyBee honey, Elder Farms local eggs, and pumpkins for sale! Bring some friends and have fun helping to create a polyculture farm forest.
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 dress for the weather, but our timber frame barn will be open for shelter. Please bring snacks, gloves, a water bottle, boots, and warm clothing. We will provide some hot cider and hot tea! No alcohol or drugs permitted.
Hope to see you there!
Acorn picture by Josh on Flickr 2007 https://www.flickr.com/photos/9659706@N05/1233748901
Event Venue
Honey Bee U-Pick Patch, 5700 Scio Church Road, Ann Arbor, United States
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