With Pollinator Month drawing to a close, we wanted to reflect on our TREMENDOUSLY SUCCESSFUL, first ever Durham Bee Day event, and thank everyone helped make it possible and came out to celebrate bees and pollinators with us! View photos on the event on our Flickr page.
An estimated 300 people came out to the Durham Farmers' Market at Durham Central Park this past Saturday for our first annual Durham Bee Day, a celebration of National Pollinator Week.
Volunteers from the Durham Beekeepers Association showed off a demonstration hive and gave honey tastings from the 4 corners of Durham.
Children made Queen Bee crowns and Bee Antennae to participate in the Bee Parade, which followed Council member DeDreana Freeman’s reading of the Durham Bee City Resolution.
180 pollinator plants were given away, as well as over 45 pots of freshly planted sunflower seeds. The Poetry Fox even wrote us a poem about Bees. 🥰
Special thanks to all the volunteers who helped set up and run the tables, the Farmer's Market vendors who labeled their produce with our "Pollinator Dependent" signs, Burt's Bees for their generous donation of 1,000 of their famous beeswax-based lip balms that we gave away, the Durham Co Beekeepers Association for their incredible educational display complete with live bees, the Durham Farmer's Market employees for helping to organize and hosting the craft table, Toxic Free NC for providing "No Spray Zone" signs to give away, and the City of Durham, NC especially Horticulturist Ben Bergmann and Councilmember DeDreana Freeman.
We can't wait for next year - save the date for the 4th Saturday in June!