NYC Honey Festival

What: The Brooklyn Grange Farm and Rockaway Beach Club @ the boardwalk come out stinging to bring you New York's first annual Honey Fest. Situated on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk- recently swarmed by a colony of outstanding food stands - we’re bringing you a jam-packed day of bees, beers, brains, and edibles on the beach.
Vendors of all stripes will be sampling their goods, from sweet nectars to tasty treats and bee-inspired threads. There will be:

• Basic beekeeping classes and demos
• Raffles, prizes, and other freebies
• Honey to taste from apiaries large and small, across all 5 boroughs
• Cooking demonstrations from the esteemed chefs at Brooklyn Kitchen
• Honey beer and brewing demos from Sixpoint Brewery
• Wondering about urban beekeeping in other countries? Meet Michael Leung from Hong Kong’s HK Honey
• Honey Mustard pickles from Horman’s Best Pickles
• Face painting, a costume contest, and kids activities
• A freestyle contest for anyone wanting to wax poetic
• Vendors of all things bee

When: Saturday Sept. 17, 2011 @10am
Where: Rockaway Beach Boardwalk. Shore Front Pkwy & Beach 96th St Queens, NY 11693
The Festival will be located next to the 96th Street concessions building. Directions>>