VT Golden Honey Festival

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VT Golden Honey Festival Food, crafts, books, mead, live music, kids' activities, free admission. This is a one of a kind event! Voted "Top Ten Fall Events for Vermont."

Located on the grounds of Golden Stage Inn just off Route 103, Proctorsville, VT in the Okemo Valley. This festival will showcase honeybee-themed vendors, artists, food, kids' crafts, and live music. Goodman's American Pie will be serving up honey themed pizzas from their mobile beehive oven! Free admission and Family-Friendly.

Thank you for a wonderful HoneyFest! You all create such magic when we are together šŸšŸÆšŸ‚
09/06/2026

Thank you for a wonderful HoneyFest! You all create such magic when we are together šŸšŸÆšŸ‚

This was one of my favorite places for my bees. The honey was pine rich and deeply amber. This location was adopted with...
09/02/2026

This was one of my favorite places for my bees. The honey was pine rich and deeply amber. This location was adopted with a new caretaker when I moved away and iā€™m so glad to see it is still buzzing!

We are looking forward to hearing Billi and the Kids play from the gazebo this Saturday at HoneyFest from 12:30-4:00!
09/02/2026

We are looking forward to hearing Billi and the Kids play from the gazebo this Saturday at HoneyFest from 12:30-4:00!

Hazelnut Honey Cakeā€¦ This Saturday at HoneyFest!
09/02/2026

Hazelnut Honey Cakeā€¦ This Saturday at HoneyFest!

HoneyFest Marketkeeperā€™s TalesThe Haunted Take of the Fingerprint in the Glaze: Mason House PotteryChris noticed it when...
09/01/2026

HoneyFest Marketkeeperā€™s Tales

The Haunted Take of the Fingerprint in the Glaze: Mason House Pottery

Chris noticed it when the kiln finally cooled.
One thumbprint.
Pressed into the blue glaze of a stoneware mug.
He knew it was not his.
Chris was careful with his work. Each piece at Mason House Pottery was thrown by hand, trimmed, dried, fired once, glazed, then fired again at 2,350 degrees.
Nothing touched the glaze after that.
Nothing should have.
He set the mug aside.
A week later, another piece came out with the same print.
Then a bowl.
Always the same print, and always near the rim.
Chris began locking the studio before every firing.
The prints kept appearing.
One snowy evening, an older woman stopped by.
She went still when she picked up the bowl.
ā€œMy father used to make pottery,ā€ she said.
Chris listened quietly.
She turned the bowl over in her hands and smiled.
ā€œHe always finished a piece like this.ā€
She pressed her thumb against the rim.
The mark matched.
To this day, Chris still fires his pottery the same way.
Slowly and Carefully.
He still waits forty-eight hours before opening the kiln.
But some nights, when the studio is quiet, he leaves one unfinished bowl near the wheel.
Just in case someone wants to check his work.

And the baking beginsā€¦
09/01/2026

And the baking beginsā€¦

08/31/2026

HoneyFest and AI
Dear Friends,
We support our community and our small businesses.

I understand that people have different feelings about AI-generated artwork, and I respect that.

I do think it is worth remembering, though, that AI is already built into much of the technology we use every day ā€” including Facebook, Instagram, Photoshop and many of the programs we use to edit photographs, design advertisements and decide what appears in our feeds.

For HoneyFest, I am simply using the tools available to me to help create cheerful artwork for a small, free community gathering. There are no vendor fees; there is no advertising budget; therefore, no local artist has lost a commission because of it. I would also like to say that we are all local, and using tools like Photoshop allows our little community event to have posters, signs, and playful characters.

I also don't represent these images as hand-drawn artwork. They are illustrations created with the assistance of stock images, photos and layered on Photoshop for the most part. Even with the few AI-assisted pictures, everything has been arranged by a person ā€” much the same way other modern creative tools assist the person using them.

I absolutely believe handmade art, photography, painting, and traditional illustration have enormous value. Using a new tool doesn't diminish any of those things.

And perhaps there is a little irony in having the argument on Facebook, a platform where AI already helps determine what we see, which advertisements reach us, what content is recommended to us, and, increasingly, how that content can be created.

For HoneyFest, I'd rather put our energy into supporting the bakers, farmers, makers, musicians and neighbors who are coming together on the Green. That's the real magic!

HoneyFest Marketkeeperā€™s TalesJackieā€™s Recipe for Love:The autumn leaves blended into the ground. You had to look up to ...
08/31/2026

HoneyFest Marketkeeperā€™s Tales

Jackieā€™s Recipe for Love:
The autumn leaves blended into the ground. You had to look up to see what was still burning. Red maples and golden birch against the bright blue sky.
A whole Vermont hillside holding on to the season for one more day.
Inside, the radio played softly. One of those songs that pulled at the heartstrings without a why.
Jackie stood at the kitchen counter with a bowl in one hand and a wooden spoon in the other.
He wanted to make something that felt like that song.
Something warm and familiar.
Something worth remembering.
And what better way to start than with butter.
Then sugar and Flour.
And deep, dark maple-coated pecans.
Real ingredients.
And somewhere between the stirring and the waiting, love entered the room through the bowl and mixing spoon.
The quiet love of desire for a warm cookie handed across the counter.
That became the heart of Jackieā€™s Bakeshop.
Small batches. Classic New England baking. Seasonal Vermont flavors. Recipes made fresh and meant to be shared.
And the very best onesā€”
you give away while theyā€™re still warm.

HoneyFest Marketkeeperā€™s TalesGina and the Very Busy Pantry:In Shrewsbury, Vermont, there was a kitchen that was always ...
08/30/2026

HoneyFest Marketkeeperā€™s Tales

Gina and the Very Busy Pantry:
In Shrewsbury, Vermont, there was a kitchen that was always on the move.
This was Ginaā€™s kitchen.
In the morning oats tumbled into a bowl, with nuts and spices following after.
By noon, jars were cooling in a row on the counter.
And by supper, someone was certain to ask where Gina had put the spice mix.
Gina believed good food ought to begin close to home and end somewhere pleasantā€”preferably around a table.
So she made things in small batches.
Garden harvests settled into packages and jars for a later day when the garden itself had gone quiet.
From her home in Shrewsbury, Gina makes farm-to-table favorites: granola for breakfast, spice blends for supper, and canned goods waiting patiently in their jars.
There is nothing very complicated about Ginaā€™s philosophy.
Grow what you can.
Make what you can.
Save a little for later.
And when everything is ready, put it on the table and call everybody in.

HoneyFest Marketkeeperā€™s TalesThe Mystery in Thompson Hollow Apothecary:Gianna Thompson had begun to notice something pe...
08/30/2026

HoneyFest Marketkeeperā€™s Tales

The Mystery in Thompson Hollow Apothecary:
Gianna Thompson had begun to notice something peculiar.
Whenever her family needed help, the answer did not always seem to be waiting in a bottle from the pharmacy.
Sometimes, it was growing just beyond the door.
And Gianna was curious.
And curiosity, as any good detective knows, has a way of becoming a case.
So she began studying.
She learned the old uses of plants, trained as a Board-Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, and started experimenting carefully with what she found.
Before long, the kitchen table began to look like a clue board.
Bundles of herbs, and jars, and handwritten notes.
One remedy led to another. Then another. And eventually, the mystery began to solve itself. What Gianna had been looking for was not one secret ingredient.
That discovery became Thompson Hollow Apothecary in Springfield, Vermont, where the Thompson family now creates natural, handcrafted products using herbs and plants with care.

The case, however, is not entirely closed. Because in Thompson Hollow, there is always another plant to study, and another little mystery growing quietly in the field.

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