The 4th
Annual Boston Tour de Hives will engage, educate and enchant you with a
first-hand look at honeybees in hives across the city, and will be guided by
the humans who tend them. On Saturday June 21st come celebrate the bees on this
auspicious Summer Solstice during National Pollinator Week!
Hives in North Cambridge, Fresh Pond, and Newton will be featured on this
year's tour, which you will visit by bicycle.
Highlights of this year's tour include (not necessarily in this order)....
Site A: tending warre
hives at an urban elementary school, chat with teachers
Site B: honeybees and fruit at an assisted living facility, speak with
residents and their beekeeper
BYO PICNIC LUNCH: Featuring Commonwheels
Bicycle Collective with a free DIY bike-maintenance skill share and Follow the Honey with a free honey
tasting
Site C: backyard beekeeping, hear from a Newton family about their home honey
production
Site D: Local bee-friendly flora and chemical-free practices at Fresh Pond
Reservoir
We will gather together at John F. Kennedy Park in Cambridge at 9:00am (near
the intersection of JFK Ave & Memorial Drive), divide into 4 groups and
visit 2 local apiaries, convening as a large group for lunch before splitting
off into 4 groups again for the final 2 sites. At each site, you will have the
chance to hear from local beekeepers and meet their bees! The total ride will
be ~15 miles (60 mins), broken up by hive visits, snacks and lunch (no single
leg will be longer than 5 miles).
Please bring a bag lunch, bicycle, helmet, and water bottle! If you can, please
bring a bike lock as well!
Don't have a bike? No problem! Rent one from Urban AdvenTours at a discounted
price of $20 when you mention Tour de Hives. A one-day, $20 rental is good for
24 hours. Bikes can be picked up on June 20th during UA's store hours and dropped off
after the Tour during their hours. UA
is located at 103 Atlantic Ave Boston, MA 02110.
The registration fee of $20 covers the tour, a raffle ticket for bee and honey
related gift certificates, plus snacks and an event T-shirt (organic &
hand-printed by a local artist). Click here to pre-register
today if you want to be sure to get a spot on the tour (and a T-shirt)! While
no one will be denied TdH access for lack of funds, once we reach capacity we
will regrettably have to close registration. Please contact us if the suggested
registration fee of $20 is prohibitive for you. Any proceeds raised will be
reinvested in education & outreach initiatives by the Boston Area Beekeepers Association
(formerly Boston Beekeepers Club).
Many thanks to this year's Supporting Sponsors!
*Follow the Honey
*Ferris Wheels Bike Shop
*Boston's Best Bees
*Maxant Honey Processing Equipment
*Moonlight Meadery
*Whole Foods
Our sponsors' contributions include gift certificates that will be raffled off
at lunch. As part of the registration cost, each registrant will receive one
raffle ticket. Additional raffle tickets cost $2 each. You must purchase and
enter your raffle tickets at registration, so plan to arrive early!
- Two "Romance Packages" from Moonlight Meadery
- One Broadway Bicycle
School class
- Hubway one year membership
-A gift basket of products of the hive from The Benevolent
Bee
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