Taste the sweetness of Oregon Honey and Mead! Festival guests should prepare to be delighted by the beauty of one of Southern Oregon's oldest and most historic wineries. Located in the rolling hills of Medford, near Phoenix, Oregon and minutes from highway 99 and Rogue Valley International Airport (MFR), Edenvale is family friendly with plenty of space to walk the grounds around the mansion, enjoy music and sample honey while 21+ may sample mead. Guests will park and enter at Edenvale's south entrance.

Attendees will learn about pollinators, botanical aspects of honey production, native plants, native bees, honey bee health, soil, seed, healthy flower forage and other components of habitat health.

There will be music by the Danielle Kelly Quartet, Mountaintop Sound and Shybo and The Twisted Vines There will be a mead garden with three of the best Oregon Mead producers, artists, native plant education, talks, honey sampling, honey for purchase, kids' activities and more. Edenvale chefs will prepare foods for purchase and the Edenvale Tasting Room will be open.

At it's heart, the Oregon Honey & Mead Festival is a celebration of apiculture and agriculture, toasting the work of all farmers and agricultural pollinators. Both native and managed bees require pollen and nectar to reproduce and to provide valuable pollination which makes food for people and animals. To make delicious honey, honey bees rely upon being able to find food in the form of nectar from flowers and forbs. They require pollen for reproduction and energy - and all pollinators need water unspoiled by toxins and chemicals.

Music & Speakers
11:15 - 12:15pm: Tasting Honey Like a Sommelier with Delsey Maus and Sharon Schmidt
2:00 - 2:30pm: The Cascade Girl Bee Heroes America Program for Veterans with Paul Davitt
4:15 - 5:00: Creatures of the Night with Dave Kollen, Xerces Society and Oregon Bee Atlas
12:15 - 1:45pm: Danielle Kelly Quartet
2:30 - 4:15pm: Mountaintop Sound
5:00 - 6:45pm: Shybo and the Twisted Vines