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Close-up photograph, honey bees clustered on golden honeycomb (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Honey of Festival

by Kathy Keatley Garvey
May 12, 2026

Hear that buzz? It's almost time for the annual California Honey Festival.

This year's festival is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, May 16, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, May 17, on the Yolo County Fairgrounds, 1250 E. Gum Ave, Woodland. Admission is free.

UC Davis is a major part of the festival, which celebrates the honey bee and its products.

The UC Davis Bee Haven, located on Bee Biology Road, was installed in the fall of 2009. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Helping the UC Davis Honey Bee Haven During UC Davis Give Day

by Kathy Keatley Garvey
March 31, 2025

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The UC Davis Bee Haven, maintained by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is one of the beneficiaries of the UC Davis Give Day, now underway through 4:59 p.m., Saturday, Apri1 12. This is the ninth annual philanthropic event coinciding with the campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day.

Miss Bee Haven, a ceramic-mosaic sculpture by self-described "rock artist" Donna Billick of Davis

UC Davis Bee Haven to Celebrate 15th Anniversary

by Kathy Keatley Garvey
March 26, 2024

The UC Davis Bee Haven will celebrate its 15th anniversary with an open house from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, April 6.

The half-acre garden, a project of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is located next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus.