Description

Join Prairie Bee Meadery and discover the interactive Pollinator Pathway.  

Explore the fascinating world of honeybees with our family-friendly Pollinator Pathway. This engaging, app driven activity will reveal humanity’s vital partnership with honeybees, showcasing how they live, work, and sustain us.

Discover the World of Bees on our Family Friendly Nature Trail:

• Stroll through 2 acres of native prairie wildflowers.
• Learn about the history of beekeeping and the critical role bees play in our ecosystem.
• Interact with a hive and beekeeping equipment.
• Uncover answers to intriguing questions such as:
  • How did bees travel from Europe?
  • How long have humans been beekeeping?
  • What contributions have bees made beyond honey?
  • What is a skep, and what does a bee bonnet look like?
  • Explore the future of human-bee partnerships with innovations like robohives.
• Suitable for all ages, ideal for school groups, day camps and for organizations looking for agricultural educational programming.

Tours Available on Our App

Pollinator Pathway Game

• This is an app-guided family friendly game that will help you uncover humanity’s partnership with honeybees – how they live, work, and keep us alive. Suitable for all this game will challenge you to solve riddles, puzzles and maybe even stimulate a bit of competition. Who knows the most about bees?

Pollinator Pathway Audio Tour

• Dive deeper into the world of bees with our audio-guided tour. Walk the nature trail, interact with exhibits, and enjoy a comprehensive learning experience.

Download our app “Prairie Bee” on Android or iOS to get started

 

Tour Availability

• Drop-in guests are welcome from 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM, May to October.
• Available in English
• We recommend allocating at least an hour for this tour, more if you wish to experience the other activities to enjoy on-site.

Costs

• Self-guided tours are by donation to our pollinator support program.

More Fun Options for your visit

You can choose any of these extras to round out your visit.

• Other Tours – our Honeywine Highway Tour is also available as a hosted or app-guided experience.  Learn what we do with all that honey (hint: we make alcohol!).
• Crafting – purchase a craft activity to do onsite in our crafting pavilion or take it home to complete later.
• Sipping – Prairie Bee Meadery craft international award winning meads.  Enjoy a sample or mead by the glass.  Sweet or dry we have something for every palette.
• Savouring – with our food offerings you can enjoy a Charcuterie, lunch box or deserts.
• Staying – we are members of the Terego & Havest Host networks.  If you are a member book in through the network and bring the RV or tent trailer and stay for a night free of charge with your visit.

Accessibility & Security

• This is a family friendly activity and is focused on bees, beekeeping and agricultural information.
• The tour is set up in a 2 acre field, the pathway is mown, flat ground which is subject to burrowing animal activity.  Random ground holes are possible.
• Wheelchairs, walkers and other mobility devices can access the pathway but it is not a paved surface.
• Washrooms are accessible and on the ground floor.
• Each pollinator pathway activity point has bench seating available.
• The tour route does not go within 50 metres of an active bee hive.
• Our site is pet friendly.

 

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