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California Honey Festival
By Anonymous — Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
June 9-10, 9AM-5PM
Bennett's Honey Farm, an agricultural icon in the Heritage Valley for over 30 years and Fillmore & Western Railway, home of "The Movie Trains", are co-producing the 1st annual California Honey Harvest Festival on Saturday and Sunday, June 9th and 10th, 2012 in Fillmore's downtown Central Park. Activities in the park include arts/craft vendors, food vendors, educational speakers on beekeeping and the importance of bees in maintaining balance and production of many of our agriculture trees and plants. Also scheduled on stage are musical entertainers such as The Old Time Fiddlers on Saturday from 9am to 11am. An MC/DJ will keep the action and music flowing throughout both days, announcing events, speakers and the train rides. There will be children's activities and local non-profit groups providing information about their organizations. The Frontier Gunfighters will "build" their backdrop of a western town and perform shows throughout the event. On Sunday, the musical group "Border Radio" from the Topanga area of the San Fernando Valley will be performing from 12noon until 3pm. Since the branding of Bennett's Honey Farm honey is widely known as Topanga Quality, thus the band "Border Radio" is also quite well known in that area. Marie Cheatham, a veteran actress who appeared for many years as "Marie" on the still running soap opera, "Days of Our Lives" will be one of the speakers providing testimony on the benefits and high quality of Bennett's Honey Farm products. She also appears currently on the new night time TV drama, GCB and has been in countless television shows and feature films. Each day there will be 3 train rides* to Bennett's Honey Farm, just east of Fillmore. The trains depart at 10:00am, 12:30pm and 3:00pm. During the ½ hour ride to the farm, there will be trackside demonstrations from actual beekeepers in their normal protective bee "suits" displaying how they "smoke" the bees in order to remove the frames so they can extract the honey and honeycombs. A docent will be onboard the train narrating the demonstration and describing the rural scenery. Once at Bennett's Honey Farm, passengers will be led by a docent for a tour of the processing facility. The only way to experience the "behind the scenes" tour is to take the train ride during the CA Honey Harvest Festival. The California Honey Harvest Festival promises to be an entertaining, educational and tasty event that will provide family fun for the bee, honey and train enthusiast. For more information or to make reservations, call Fillmore & Western Railway at 805-524-2546 or go to www.fwry.com *TRAIN RIDE PRICES: |
