What are you doing for National Honey Bee Day this year? It’s coming up soon. Share your own plans or events in the comments section below. August 19, 2017 is officially “National Honey Bee Day” in the USA. Every year around the country, bee clubs and bee lovers gather together for education, outreach, fun activities and honey bee advocacy in celebration of the honey bee.
In the year of 2010, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, Thomas J. Vilsack, declared the first official day called “Honey Bee Awareness Day”.
The mission of the organization behind the creation of National Honey Bee Day is:
- Promotion and advancement of beekeeping.
- Educate the public to honey bees and beekeeping.
- Make the public aware of environmental concerns affecting honey bees
Since then, organizations and individuals have been gathering to celebrate every year. One such example of this is taking place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this year at the Milwaukee County Zoo in cooperation with the company, Beepods.
As explained on their website, the National Honey Bee Day event will consist of their beekeepers hosting a hive-side demonstration with live honey bees to show how bees work and the role bees play with pollination and the food we eat. At this particular event, there will even bee presentations throughout the day that zoo visitors can attend to see if beekeeping might be a suitable hobby for them. Beepods has put together a Facebook event where Wisconsinites (and the general public) can RSVP to show their interest.
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I’m the manager of a honey shop at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire, in Mount Hope, Lancaster County, Pa.
We have a functional observation hive outside the shop where we talk about the life of the honeybee and promote the importance of them with hands-on observations, every weekend including Labor Day Monday, from August through October.
With your permission, I’d like to print out the graphic at the top of this page to put up around the shop to announce this date.
Frank, that would be fine. The full size image can be found here: https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/national-honey-bee-day-august-19-2017-keeping-backyard-bees.png
Thank you. I’m looking forward to telling our visitors about this.
Our Brownie Troop #40265 is visiting our local Audubon Zoo to learn more about honeybees. They have a new art piece that is also a beehive that we’ll visit.
I am celebrating National Bee Day by attending our Worcester County Beekeepers Assoc. meeting and learning how to prepare my bees for Winter!
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