Pollinator Festival 2025

Cider Hill is celebrating all things bees, butterflies, birds, bats and ladybugs from June 16-22! Help us show some love to creatures essential to our food supply! This week long event features a full line up of FUN happenings with live music, interactive pollinator wing installation, tastings, hands-on family-friendly activities, meet the beekeepers, hayrides, specials and workshops. Here's what's scheduled with more events and activties coming soon!

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Monday 6/16 - Sunday 6/22

Free weeklong ways to celebrate with NO registration required:

• Interactive Pollinator Wing Installation. Open daily 8 am - 6 pm. Bee the pollinators! Take selfies in the fields with assorted bird, butterfly and bee wings hand-painted by local maker Sage & Oak Creative. Learn about the importance of our beloved pollinators along the way. FREE. Open daily. Wings painted by local maker, Sage & Oak Creative.

• Under Appreciated Pollinators Mini Wing Wall. Open daily 8 am - 6 pm. Visit the newest set of wings to learn a bit more about bats, moths and flies. 

• Pollinator Activity Sheets & Stickers. Available daily 8 am - 6 pm. Pick up a pollinator activity sheet and pollinator sticker inside the farm store anytime from 8 am - 6pm. Free. Pick up both at the register. While supplies last.

• Hive Observation. Visit the store 8 am - 6 pm for our own honey, food specials, beeee-autiful decor and visit the observation hive to see if you can spot the queen!

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Monday 6/16

• Guided Pollinator Meditation Walk with Blue Fern Forest Bathing. 1:30-3:30 pm. Gather with Nev, Founder of Blue Fern, to experience nature unfolding through a slow, gentle walk among the breeze, bees, birds and butterflies. $25. Includes guide, tea gathering and farm treat. Space limited. Registration required. Sign Up >

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Tuesday 6/17

• Bee, Butterfly & Bat Stories with Amesbury Public Library. 10 - 10:45 am. Stories about bees, butterflies, birds, moths, bats or even small mammals that help carry pollen. Free. RSVP >

Wednesday 6/18 

• Events coming soon

Thursday 6/19

• Meet the Beekeeper & Jam Maker. Without pollinators, we wouldn't have fruit. And without fruit, we wouldn't have jam! Cider Hill Farm's jam maker and fave resident homesteader are both sharing their incredible knowledge. Visit them in front of the farm store from 11 am - 1 pm for samples of our own honey and jam. Free. 

• Kid's Strawberry-Themed Cookie Decorating Class with Sweet Cheeks - Reserve Spot Now > 

• Adults Only Strawberry-Themed Cookie Decorating Class with Sweet Cheeks - Reserve Spot Now >

• Free Live Music with Ryan Maher. 11 - 1 pm. RSVP >

• Free Live Music with Corey McLane 1 - 4 pm. RSVP >

• Outdoor Hard Cider Bar. 11 am - 4 pm.

• North Shore Beefie Boys and Saia Soup Company Pop-Ups. 11 am - 3 pm.

• Discovery Day Program: About Strawberry Plants. 9 am and 10:30 am sessions. 

• Bike Repair Tent with Pedalin' Fools. 9 am - 3 pm. 

Friday 6/20

• Pollinator Themed Scavenger Hunt & Obstacle Course. 12 - 6 pm. Free. 

• Free Hard Cider Tasting. 4-6 pm. RSVP >

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Saturday 6/21

• Pollinator Themed Scavenger Hunt & Obstacle Course. 8 am - 6 pm. Free. 

• Coffee & Bees, Yes Please! Did you know bees play an important role when it comes to coffee acting as a pollination booster? Cider Hill Farm & Kaha Coffee Roasters are joining forces again to honor our essential pollinators during National Pollinator Week with samples of locally roasted coffee. 9-11 am. 

• FREE! Morning with the Raptors with Tailwinds - 9:30 & 10:15. RSVP >

• Children's Music Class with Miss Alicia. 9 & 9:45 am. 

• Roll Honeycomb Candles, Pollinator Masks & Meet the Beekeepers. 10 am - 12 pm. Join Essex County Beekeepers Association (ECBA) to learn about beehives and roll a bee's wax candle to take home. And visit the children's pollinator activity tent to make n' create wearable bee n' butterfly masks.Free. While supplies last. RSVP>

• Outdoor Hard Cider Bar. 11 am - 4 pm

• Free Live Music with Scotty Ray Clark & Wayne Benham. 12-3 pm. RSVP >

• Food Truck. 11 am - 4 pm

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Sunday 6/22

• Pollinator Themed Scavenger Hunt & Obstacle Course. 8 am - 6 pm. Free. No registration.

• Discovery Day Program: Plant a Pollinator Pot. 9 am and 10:30 am sessions. Register now >

• Nut Tasting (Thank the Bees!). 10 am - 2 pm. Free. 

• Outdoor Hard Cider Bar. 12 - 4 pm

• Free Live Music with Art Grossman. 12-3 pm. RSVP >

• Food Truck. 11 am - 4 pm

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All activities, dates, times and details subject to change. Weather dependent. More events being added weekly!