Honey Weekend at Wave Hill Saturday, Sunday, September 8, 9

Wave Hill's 28 acres are home to breathtaking vistas, beautiful gardens and, not to be forgotten, honeybees! Celebrate our busy bees and the sweet fruits of their labor on Honey Weekend at Wave Hill. Start at the Family Art Project and create a bee costume for little ones to buzz around in. Borrow our beekeeping gear and discover fascinating facts about honeybees and their hives at an information session; learn abut the journey of honey from bee to jar and taste some for yourself. All events take place both Saturday and Sunday.  

What:     Honey Weekend at Wave Hill

Date:      Saturday, Sunday, September 8 & 9, 2012, rain or shine!

Place:     Wave Hill at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue in the Bronx, New York

Time:      Family Art Project  Be a Bee/Sea una abeja

              Live the life of a bee! Outfit yourself with wings, antennae, a pollen cup and a kazoo to buzz with.  Buzz around a hive of six-sided cells and forage in the flowers. 

              At 1PM, join in on a bee parade and dance in a cardboard hive.  Ecology Building, 10AM–1PM

              Honey Tasting

              You’ll be amazed at the complex flavors of different varieties of honey! Sample a few, then purchase your favorite to take home.  The Shop at Wave Hill, 11AM−4PM

              Hives & Honey Information Station

              Try on beekeeping gear, peek inside an empty hive and learn fascinating facts about honeybees. 

              Perkins Visitor Center, 1PM−4PM

              Honey Extraction Demonstration

              How do bees make honey? How do we collect it? Help us extract and bottle honey from our resident honeybees and sample honey straight from the hive. Ecology Building, 2PM, 2:30PM, 3PM

Fees:      Programs free with admission; admission to the grounds free until noon on Saturday.

Contact:   Mary Weitzman at 718.549.3200 x320 or maryw@wavehill.org

                Martha Gellens at 718.549.3200 x232 or marthag@wavehill.org

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