New Location: Cross Orchards Historic Site - 3073 F Rd, Grand Junction, CO 81504

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Colorado Honeybee Festival

Now at Cross Orchards Historic Site

Saturday
April 11, 2026
10:00 am – 4:00 pm

New Location, Same Sweet Celebration!

A fun, educational, and free festival for the whole family.

Location & parking
Bee A Sponsor

Find sponorship information and help keep this educational, fun, festival free for our community.

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Check out educational speakers, live music, chef demonstrations, and other activities.

Bee A vendor

Featuring over 100 vendors with honey bee related products and artisan crafts.

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Activity Highlights

What Fun Will Be Had?

The Colorado Honeybee Festival, (formerly the Palisade International Honeybee Festival) is buzzing over to Cross Orchards Historic Site – Museums of Western Colorado! This exciting move brings more space for vendors, expanded parking, and fresh activities for kids, all in a setting that perfectly captures the spirit of agriculture and community.

As part of this partnership, Cross Orchards will host new on-site honeybee hives, becoming a year-round hub for pollinator education and sustainable agriculture.

Join us in celebrating bees, farmers, and the beauty of Western Colorado in this charming historic location.

Vendors

Description : Find local honey and honeymade products. Shop artisan gifts and honeybee inspired creations from over 100 carefully chosen vendors.

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Guest Speakers

Description : Learn about the importance of honeybees, good garden bugs and bee friendly plants. Find out beekeeping tips from state and regional experts.

Guest Speakers

Schedule

Description : Learn new recipes, sample honey products, compete in the spelling bee, check out live music and more when you visit the Colorado Honeybee Festival.

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How to Get Involved

The Colorado Honeybee Festival is organized and promoted by a volunteer board.

Founded in 2008, the Colorado Honeybee Festival was created to educate the public about the global honeybee crisis, particularly the impacts of colony collapse, and to support a thriving, sustainable bee population. Healthy bees are essential to agriculture in the Grand Valley, across Colorado, and around the world.

Become A Sponsor

This festival would not be possible without our sponsors. Thank you to everyone who supports this event and our efforts to spread awareness about our honeybee population.

Donate

If you would like to support the Colorado Honeybee Festival share important educational resources about honeybees, please use our donation form online. We are a non-profit organization committed to protecting our pollinators.

Spread the Word

Follow us on social media and share our Facebook event. Bring your friends and family to learn more about the importance of honeybees.

Thank you to our sponsors.

Testimonials

★★★★★

The best festival of the year.

“The Honeybee Festival is the best family festival of the year and it’s totally free. It’s absolutely the best place to buy local honey and honey products. Make sure to stop by the Meadery to sample the honey wines, the apricot is my favorite.”

A great way to spend the day.

“We love to take the family and learn about plants and bugs. Every year we dig out our best bee costumes and buzz on down for shopping and spring fun.”