(FREE) HoneyBee Nut Festival 2025!

You are invited to the 5th annual "HoneyBee Nut Festival" from 10 AM until 5 PM! Celebrate the Earth and the seasons with a FREE, fun, outdoors event this coming Sunday on this beautiful 160-acre property at HoneyBee U-pick (5700 Scio Church Rd., Ann Arbor). Throughout the day we also hope to be roasting chestnuts, tasting different kinds of nuts, pressing apples to make apple cider, and carving pumpkins. The raspberry u-pick patch will also be open for the last of the raspberries, along with hundreds of pie pumpkins, local honey, and Tantre farm-fresh produce for sale! Bring some friends and have fun learning about nuts!

Some of the planned activities include:

10 AM Talk with Marc Boone, owner of one of the only cultivated pawpaw orchards in Michigan and member of the Michigan Nut & Fruit Growers Association ( https://michigannut.org/)

11 AM Nature Discovery Walk with Will Forage for Food ( https://willforageforfood.com/) founder, Rachel Mifsud

12 PM Black Walnut Processing with walnut enthusiasts, Billy & Zyla Sullivan, who will share a demonstration of methods for dehulling, curing, cracking and shelling black walnuts, one of our finest Midwestern delicacies.

12 PM Networking with new and experienced nut growers, warming by a bonfire, roasting nuts, snacks, and pressing apples for apple cider samples.

1:30 PM Cooking with Nuts: A Conversation with Kori Kanayama, a community farm chef. Come meet and chat with folks who like to cook special dishes with local nuts and exchange ideas. Kori will facilitate and share what she does with chestnuts. Bring recipes and questions.

2:30 PM Nut Tree ID Walk with Washtenaw County Parks Naturalist, Shawn Severance. Learn to identify wild nut trees using bark, buds and leaves in the context of their native plant community.

3:30 PM Michigan Nuts with Rachel Mifsud. Learn about the various nuts that grow wild in our area. We will talk about how to harvest, store, and process nuts for eating (nut flours, nut milks, nut butter, etc.)
5 PM - Thanks for coming!

Kid friendly event! This event is best for able-bodies, since this is uneven terrain. Please supervise your children at all times. Well-behaved dogs on leashes are welcome. Please dress for the weather, but this will be an inside and outside event with our timber frame barn open for shelter. Please bring a water bottle, boots, and warm clothing. We will provide hot cider, hot tea, and Roos Roast coffee, and a few snacks! No alcohol or drugs permitted.

Bring some friends and have fun learning about nuts and hope to see you there!

Acorn picture by Josh on Flickr 2007 https://www.flickr.com/photos/9659706@N05/1233748901

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