Honey Fair · Aug 20–22, 2027 · Minot, North Dakota
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Dates: Friday, August 20, 2027 to Sunday, August 22, 2027 (3 days)
Venue: North Dakota State Fairgrounds, 2005 Burdick Expressway East, Minot, North Dakota
Type: Honey Fair
Minot — Ward County's 'Magic City' on the Souris River plains of north-central North Dakota — sits at the crossroads of two of America's most productive honey-producing landscapes: the glaciated prairie wetlands that support the continent's highest duck nesting densities and the sunflower and sweet clover farmland that makes this region a world-premier commercial beekeeping area. North Dakota is consistently among America's top five honey-producing states, and the Minot region captures the full range of northern plains honey character — from the thick crystalline sweet clover honey harvested in late June through the golden sunflower honey dominating the August flow. The North Dakota State Fairgrounds host this late-August honey fair celebrating Ward County's extraordinary beekeeping heritage, featuring honey judging competitions across multiple varietal and style classes; commercial beekeeping demonstrations with production-scale hive equipment; sunflower pollination farm tours through Ward County's agricultural landscape where honeybees pollinate thousands of acres of sunflowers annually; educational programs from North Dakota State University Extension apiculture specialists on managing large-scale operations in the northern plains climate; artisan honey food vendors featuring North Dakota sweet clover, alfalfa, and sunflower honeys; and demonstrations of the commercial honey extraction and processing equipment used by North Dakota's large-scale operations.
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