Honey Harvest serves up sweet stuff at CDM
The word on the street is sweet at the Creative Discovery Museum this weekend — and honeybees are the reason why.
Saturday and Sunday, July 30-31, the children’s museum will celebrate its 16th annual Honey Harvest showcasing the hives and honey of these hard-working buzzy bodies.
Visitors can taste different kinds of honey, participate in honey extraction and meet beekeepers from the Tennessee Valley Beekeeper Association and Northwest Georgia Beekeepers Association. And they can make their own honey lip balm, beeswax candle and honey soap to take home.
Michele Colopy, program director of the Pollinator Stewardship Council, will give presentations that teach children about the importance of honeybees as pollinators and how everyone can help save them from decimation. The council raises awareness of the harmful effects of pesticides on pollinators.
New this year is a Welsh Honey and Hive product show in the party room. Guests will be able to peruse everything from honey to beeswax to bee-related photography and purchase products made by regional beekeepers and their bees.
Honeybees have long been a part of the museum’s focus. Buzz Alley opened in 2011 as a permanent exhibit that showcases the honeybee as a pollinator. Buzz Alley also highlights the relationship between bees and wildflowers and the importance of beekeeping to help sustain a healthy ecosystem.
The annual Honey Harvest, says Karen Dewhirst, museum experience manager, “provides a deeper connection to the hives kept by the museum.”