On Saturday, October 28th, Landmark Park in Dothan Alabama hosted their annual Wiregrass Heritage Festival. Volunteers were dressed in period correct clothing as they demonstrated arts such as corn-shelling, quilting, open hearth cooking, soap making with lye, cane grinding and syrup making, cotton and peanut picking, and much more!

As a local elementary school teacher, I assisted in the festival by dressing as the Queen Bee buzzing around pointing people to the Honey Festival area. In the Agricultural Museum, people were introduced to cooking with honey, honey tips for good health, and procedures such as uncapping wax and extracting honey from the comb.

The Wiregrass Beekeeping Association provided a honey tasting table with many types, such as Michigan Thistle, Gall berry, Kudzu, Cotton and more! Local honey and products were available from the Horton Honey Farm, and Landmark Park. You could certainly say this was one honey of a day!