The Fourth Annual West Seattle Bee Festival is set for May 21, from 9:30am to Noon at High Point Commons Park. The event celebrates our amazing pollinators and invites us to help them thrive.

Start with the Honey Run where anyone can roll, stroll, run or walk around Commons Park. No fee, no pre-registration (check in at 9:30). Everyone can enjoy local, organic food from Patti Pan Grill, Wicked Pies and Full Tilt Ice Cream. Kids can get their faces painted and dress up at 10:00 for the Parade around the Park which starts at 11:00.

From 11:00 on, there will be lots of great information about organic gardening, and sustainable practices from Nature’s Consortium, Weed Warriors-Nature Stewards Program and Mariposa Naturescapes. Tilth’s Master Composter will bring the worm bin again this year! Seattle Made affiliates such as Soulever Chocolates (vegan truffles, yum!!) and Seattle Burlap, as well as other local businesses will entice you with sustainable goods and services.

Woodland Park Zoo will bring their “animal ambassadors” (some of whom are unexpected pollinators) to Neighborhood House from 11:30-1:30. The West Seattle Bee Garden (SW Graham and Lanham Pl. SW) will host a live Bee Hive Demo at 12:00 and Puget Sound Bee Keepers Association will provide lots of information about bee keeping and supply local honey for tasting and sale. Ricky Gene Powell will entertain with live bluegrass sounds. Nature’s Consortium will help you create pollinator art in Neighborhood House.

Take the 21 or 128 bus, ride your bike or park your car behind the High Point Library for free. For more information http://www.westseattlebeegarden.com/bee-fest-2016.html.

The West Seattle Bee Festival is sponsored by the Events Committee of the High Point Open Spaces Association (ECOSA), an all-volunteer group in High Point whose mission is to create and support events and projects for and by residents that encourage community involvement and enrichment.