This Sunday, April 28, the Provencal beekeepers will gather for the 19th edition of the Mouans-Sartoux Honey Festival, the must-attend regional honey event. Throughout the day, many fun and friendly activities will be offered to the expected 10,000 visitors.
Again this year, the beekeepers will be delighted to showcase their profession and also introduce the public to hive products.
Thanks to the Apimobile (a true rolling hive with transparent walls), visitors will be able to watch a beekeeper handling a hive, its frames, and the colony of bees residing there.
Also on the agenda: tasting Provence honey, discovering royal jelly, and events designed for children (introduction to the tastes of honey, gingerbread making, etc.). Finally, guided walks around the bees’ favorite plants will be organized in a honey garden at the Château de Mouans-Sartoux park. An opportunity to share a pleasant family day!
The meeting place for food lovers!
Faithful to the festival, the famous Provençal cuisine chefs, Mireille and Gui Gedda, will offer a culinary journey around honey-based cuisine in the middle of the Château park. The 2013 menu is still a secret… The Gedda family is making the final adjustments before revealing the flavors very soon.
This year, the organizers have focused on activities for children to the delight of the little ones.
Learning while having fun!
Head to the Château de Mouans-Sartoux and its verdant park where fun and friendly workshops await the youngsters. They can participate in a mini treasure hunt through the honey garden to discover the emblematic flowers foraged by bees, with many rewards and treats for the winners!
Dressed as bees, children can then take part in the “pollen fishing.” Equipped with fishing rods, they can flit from flower to flower alongside an instructor who will teach them all the secrets of pollination. To conclude this educational journey, a workshop dedicated to the “bee” version of the memory game will be offered to the children.
Attention little food lovers and creative builders
This year, the beekeepers in Provence will offer children a cooking workshop for budding chefs! Young gastronomes in short pants can prepare and taste “bee cupcakes,” cakes specially concocted with honey. For the more hands-on, they can build a hive, called “my first hive,” to cut, glue, and color. A true artist’s work!
All these activities are free and will take place from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
For the big food lovers, don’t worry, throughout the day, find all the activities offered by the Provence beekeepers, such as honey tasting initiation, discovering the Apimobile (the rolling hive with transparent walls), or even live extraction of 2013 rosemary honey.
Also on the agenda: guided tours in a honey garden in the Château de Mouans-Sartoux park, honey cooking and pastry demonstrations.
