Honey Weekend at Wave Hill Saturday and Sunday, October 4 and 5, 2014

Buzz on over to Wave Hill for Honey Weekend, an annual celebration of our beloved honey bees and the sweet fruits of their labors. This year, Honey Weekend offers a candlemaking workshop, a buzzy Family Art Project, honey-extraction demonstrations, an information station all about hives and honey and, in The Shop at Wave Hill, in-store tastings of local, artisanal honey and gourmet honey products with Catskill Provisions, Mike’s Hot Honey, Seaway Trail Honey and John & Kira’s Honey Caramel Chocolate Bees! Whether you stay for part of the festivities or attend all of the events, Honey Weekend at Wave Hill is the place to bee! 

All events take place on both Saturday and Sunday, October 4 and 5, and are free with admission to the grounds and do not require registration, unless otherwise indicated. 

What: Honey Weekend at Wave Hill

When: October 4 and 5, 2014, rain or shine!

Where: Wave Hill, West 249 Street and Independence Avenue

Schedule:                       

Family Art Project: Be a Bee, Saturday and Sunday, 10AM–1PM, Wave Hill House

Join us for this Family Art Project classic. Outfit yourself with wings, antennae, a pollen cup and a kazoo to hum with. Buzz around in a cardboard hive of six-sided cells and forage in the flowers. Join in a bee parade and dance at 12:30PM, weather permitting. 

Candlemaking Workshop, 11AM–3PM, Wave Hill House

Beeswax has been used for centuries in art, woodworking and in religious ceremonies. Try your hand at creating an assortment of beeswax candles to take home and enjoy. Materials fee: $15 per kit, which includes enough to make several candles.

Honey Tasting, 11AM–4PM, The Shop at Wave Hill                   

You’ll be amazed at the complex flavors of different varieties of honey! Sample a few, then purchase your favorite to take home. Gourmet honey producers and chocolatiers will be on hand each day. Visitors will also be able to sign up for a jar of Wave Hill’s own “Liquid Gold” honey, harvested from our hives over Honey Weekend. Limit one jar per customer while limited stock lasts.

• On Saturday, enjoy tastings of Catskills Provisions’ raw honey (and chocolate-honey truffles and honey-infused marinades), while Brooklyn-based Mike’s Hot Honey shows off how deliciously its chili pepper-infused honey pairs with pizza, chicken, roasted veggies and more.

• On Sunday, enjoy Seaway Trail Honey’s popular range of award-winning honeys, highlighting the role of seasonal flowers in honey. The unique flavor of John & Kira’s Chocolates’ Honey Caramel Chocolate Bees comes from the fragrant, basswood honey supplied by the Draper Family Apiaries in north-central Pennsylvania.

Honey Extraction Demonstration, 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30PM, Ecology Building

How do bees make honey? How do we collect it? Help us extract and bottle honey from our resident honeybees.

Hives and Honey Information Station, 1–3PM, Perkins Visitor Center

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

Support for Garden Programs is provided by the Hagedorn Fund. The Family Art Project is generously sponsored by Target, with additional support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Sustaining support is provided by the Sally and Gilbert Kerlin Endowment for Environmental Science and Nature Education. Wave Hill, Inc. is an independent, non-profit cultural institution governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. The buildings and grounds of Wave Hill are owned by the City of New York. With the assistance of the Bronx Borough President and Bronx representatives in the City Council and State Legislature, Wave Hill’s operations are supported with public funds through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the Zoos, Botanical Gardens and Aquariums Grant Program administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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