Honey Market · Jan 29–30, 2027 · Yuma, Arizona
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Dates: Friday, January 29, 2027 to Saturday, January 30, 2027 (2 days)
Venue: Yuma Civic Center, 1440 W Desert Hills Drive, Yuma, Arizona
Type: Honey Market
Yuma — Arizona's sunniest city at the confluence of the Colorado and Gila rivers, with over 300 days of sunshine annually — is home to one of America's most productive winter vegetable and citrus farming landscapes, where the vast irrigated fields of the Yuma Valley produce a remarkable winter and early-spring honey flow from citrus blossoms, alfalfa, desert wildflowers, and the native mesquite and palo verde trees that bloom in the Colorado River floodplain. The Yuma Civic Center hosts this late-January artisan market celebrating the unique honeys of the Sonoran Desert's most intensively farmed region, featuring beekeepers from Yuma County and the adjacent Arizona-California border areas who produce the distinctive citrus blossom, desert wildflower, and mixed Sonoran honey unique to the Lower Colorado River Valley's extraordinary agricultural landscape. Yuma's position at the crossroads of the Sonoran Desert, the Colorado River delta, and the vast Imperial Valley agricultural complex creates an unprecedented winter honey flow: when most American beekeepers are feeding their colonies in frozen hives, Yuma beekeepers are harvesting fresh citrus blossom and early spring wildflower honey from colonies working the blooming orange, lemon, and grapefruit groves that make Yuma County one of the top winter citrus-producing regions in North America. The market features Yuma Valley citrus blossom honey tastings; educational programs on winter beekeeping in the Sonoran Desert; demonstrations of commercial colony management adapted to Yuma's extreme summer heat (exceeding 115°F); artisan vendors from the Yuma farming community; pairings featuring Yuma Medjool dates, winter vegetables, and desert honey; and presentations from the University of Arizona Yuma Agricultural Center on bee-dependent crop pollination in the Colorado River Valley.
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Official page: azbeekeepers.org
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