The mission of the Philadelphia Honey Festival is to raise awareness about the importance of honey bees to our environment, our food supply and our economy, and to promote urban beekeeping and gardening.
Entry to the festival venues, educational activities and demonstrations is free!
The Philadelphia Honey Festival began in 2010 to accompany the placement of an historic marker honoring Philadelphia-born Lorenzo L. Langstroth. Well-known to beekeepers, Langstroth invented the first movable frame hive design based on the principle of “bee space.” You can see the marker at 106 South Front Street in Philadelphia, his birthplace.
Since 2010, the Philadelphia Honey Festival has been held the weekend after Labor Day. Three historic venues are purposefully chosen in three different parts of the city, in order to allow folks in Philly the opportunity to attend the festival without traveling far from their neighborhoods.
The festival kicks-off on Friday, at Glen Foerd on the Delaware (Philadelphia zip 19114). They feature activities for kids, as well as a Honey Happy Hour for adults. Family-oriented events continue at Wyck Historic House|Garden|Farm on Saturday (Philadelphia zip 19144), then at Bartram's Garden on Sunday (Philadelphia zip 19143).
Each individual venue plans and implements its own programming, which includes the following demonstrations by the members of the Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild:
- Open Hive Talk(s)
- Honey Extraction Demonstration(s)
- Bee Beard!
