On a very hot Saturday in early October, the Harvest Festival was in full swing. The festival was attended by about 3,336 visitors, mostly young kids with moms and dads in tow. The corn maze, the make-your-own bouquet of flowers for mom and the hay rides were big draws for the kids -- as was, of course, the petting zoo. If you’ve never been to this festival before, I would suggest you give it a try next year as the Montgomery County Parks people do a fantastic job on this. Our club had two tables set up under a tent supplied by Jim Fraser. On display, we had honey recipe handouts, some bee posters, bee veils and a pinned bee and wasp display. We were selling local honey from some of our club members (thank you Chris Lewis, Richard Parry, Julia Gorey and Dave Povtak), some bee items (soap from Kameha Bell and bee ornaments from Debbie Pappas) and some commercial honey owned by our club. Our tables were manned by Richard Parry, Sue Urskevich and Tim McMahon. The kids loved looking at the bees and wasps and the honey is always a big hit.

A great big thank you to all those who helped and to all those who brought items to sell.