You can see first-hand how honey is produced at the so-called “sweetest” event of the year at Crossroads at Big Creek this Saturday.  The Community Honey Harvest will be held from 9 until 11 in the morning by the Door County Beekeepers Club.  The free program will have interactive activities demonstrating the importance of honeybees and their role in the environment.  Gretchen Schmelzer of the Door County Beekeepers Association says the educational stations will offer a close view of honeybees in action behind the glass widow of an observation hive.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to make beeswax wraps and rolled wax candles and view a demonstration of dipping hot wax candles.  A children’s tent will have a live drone honey bee for kids to pet and display hive boxes and beekeeper tools.  Bee-related items will be available for resale for the first time this year at the “Shop the Hive.”  Sales and proceeds of honey, soaps and shirts will go for youth beekeeping scholarships through the Wisconsin Honey Producers program.