Northcliffe Bee Festival, Northcliffe (2026)

17/06/2026

🐝 STALLHOLDERS WANTED –
NORTHCLIFFE BEE FESTIVAL MARKET 🐝
Saturday 24 October 2026

Be part of the inaugural Northcliffe Bee Festival and showcase your products, creations, and business at what is shaping up to be one of the region’s most anticipated community events.

With strong interest already coming from beekeepers, growers, artisans, food producers, gardeners, families, and visitors from across the region, this is a wonderful opportunity to connect with a diverse and engaged audience.

The festival market will be held on the school oval in the heart of Northcliffe and will feature:

🐝 Guest speakers and industry experts
🎶 Live music and entertainment
🍯 Honey tastings and product sampling
🎨 Bee-inspired arts, crafts, and hands-on workshops
🌼 Pollinator, gardening, farming, food, and sustainability displays

Whether you create, grow, make, bake, design, educate, or inspire, we’d love to welcome you.

Reserve your stall online:
🌐 https://www.beefest.com.au/participate

Enquiries:
📞 Faye – 0409 084 836

✨ And there’s more…

Following the Bee Festival, Northcliffe’s much-loved Mill Town market returns on Saturday 21 November.

A perfect pre-Christmas trading opportunity before the festive season begins.

For Milltown Market enquiries:
📞 Faye – 0409 084 836

Join us as we celebrate bees, local food, creativity, and community in the Southern Forests. 🌿🐝

12/06/2026

Join us at the Northcliffe Bee Festival as we learn from farmers, beekeepers, researchers, and observers who have spent years paying attention to the living world around them.

11/06/2026

✨🐝 Speaker Announcement 🐝✨

We’re excited to welcome one of our speakers to the Northcliffe Bee Festival.

Recently, we had the opportunity to visit beekeeper Dwayne Peppin’s food forest in Denmark. What struck me wasn’t just the variety of plants. It was the abundance of life.

Bees moving through blossoms. Native insects at work. Birds in the trees. Kangaroos passing through.

It felt alive.

These are the kinds of observations he’ll be sharing at the festival.

Because perhaps the real measure of a landscape is not how much it produces, but how much life it supports, you won’t want to miss this conversation.

Join us at the Northcliffe Bee Festival as we explore the connections between pollinators, farming, food, and the landscapes we all depend on.

🐝 October 24, 2026
📍 Northcliffe, Western Australia

20/05/2026

In the universe, there’s nothing quite like this living planet, and much of what keeps it alive moves quietly through pollination.

We still ask the same questions we did as children.
What are bees really doing? How can something so small help sustain biodiversity, food systems, and the reproduction of so much plant life on Earth? How does their existence shape ours?

Today, on World Bee Day, we celebrate one of the world’s smallest yet greatest wonders: bees, honey bees and native bees alike.

On October 24, 2026, Northcliffe will host the Northcliffe Bee Festival.

The festival is an expression of gratitude for the pollinators that help sustain life itself. It is also a reminder that our everyday choices, how we farm, plant, consume, and care for landscapes, shape the future of the living world around us.

The Northcliffe Bee Festival is more than a celebration. It is a recognition of the intricate intelligence and interconnected systems that support life on Earth.

Wonder may be the beginning of learning to see bees differently, not simply as insects, honey-makers, or background noise to summer, but as essential participants in the resilience, diversity, and continuity of life itself.

Because they are.

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Thank you to 📷 Leach who continue to capture the beauty, movement, and importance of bees.

15/05/2026

For the upcoming Northcliffe Bee Festival 2026, we’re
creating a series of small-scale bee sculptures built
entirely from old farm machinery and tools.

There’s a certain weight to old farm machinery. Not just in how heavy it is, but in what it’s been part of. You can pick up a piece of metal and feel that it’s done something. A plough disc worn smooth from years of turning soil. A chain that’s been under tension its whole life. A blade that’s met the same ground again and again, season after season.

That’s how the bee sculptures are coming together. Not from clean and new materials, but from what’s already here. There are farmers who do not throw things away. If you do decide to let something go, we’ll make sure it carries its story with it. Where it came from. What it was used for. How long it worked the land. Everything still holds value, just in a different form.

~What We’re Looking For~
Rusty or unused farm tools
Broken machinery parts
Plough discs, harrows, blades
Chains, gears, metal fittings
Nylon ropes

Anything with weight, history, and character. If it once worked the land, it belongs in this story.

Why It Matters
Each piece donated becomes part of something larger, a collective reflection on how we farm, what we value, and what we choose to carry forward.

Where possible, we’ll acknowledge contributions, the
farm, the history, the years of use, so the sculpture
becomes not just an artwork, but a record of this
community.

How to Contribute
If you have tools or machinery parts you’re willing to donate, we’d love to hear from you.
📩 Send a photo to Gwen: [email protected]
Or simply reach out for a conversation.

📷 Captured through the lens and prowess of our incredible photographer

15/05/2026

A Call To Notice What Keeps Things Alive

You can walk through a farm and point to almost everything, the crops, the machinery, the work that’s been done.

But there’s always something missing from the picture.

The movement between things.
The unseen relationships holding life together.

A forest holds not because it stands, but because something moves through it.

Pollinators between flowers. Water through roots. Nutrients through soil.

A community holds the same way.

Not through buildings alone, but through care, exchange, contribution, and connection moving continuously through a place.

Bees remind us of this.

Not just as producers of honey, but as part of the invisible systems that keep landscapes, biodiversity, food, and communities alive.

And this is also a call to all honey producers, farmers, growers, beekeepers, educators, artists, and locals, reach out. Bring your knowledge, your stories, your ideas, your experience.

We succeed when we stand together.
When knowledge is shared.
When different worlds cross paths.
When community becomes stronger than competition.

The future of farming, pollination, and regional communities will not be built alone.

This festival is not only about bees.
It is about learning to notice the quiet systems that hold everything together.

🐝 Northcliffe Bee Festival 2026
Farming With Pollinators In Mind
Beefest.com.au

15/05/2026

A Call To Notice What Keeps Things Alive

You can walk through a farm and point to almost everything, the crops, the machinery, the work that’s been done.

But there’s always something missing from the picture.

The movement between things.
The unseen relationships holding life together.

A forest holds not because it stands, but because something moves through it.

Pollinators between flowers. Water through roots. Nutrients through soil.

A community holds the same way.

Not through buildings alone, but through care, exchange, contribution, and connection moving continuously through a place.

Bees remind us of this.

Not just as producers of honey, but as part of the invisible systems that keep landscapes, biodiversity, food, and communities alive.

And this is also a call to all honey producers, farmers, growers, beekeepers, educators, artists, and locals, reach out. Bring your knowledge, your stories, your ideas, your experience.

We succeed when we stand together.
When knowledge is shared.
When different worlds cross paths.
When community becomes stronger than competition.

The future of farming, pollination, and regional communities will not be built alone.

This festival is not only about bees.
It is about learning to notice the quiet systems that hold everything together.

🐝 Northcliffe Bee Festival 2026
On 24 October, Saturday
Farming With Pollinators In Mind

19/03/2026

To the protectors of this land… 🌿🐝

To those who have stood in the background for years, speaking up for forests, for wildlife, for what cannot speak for itself…

To those who have written submissions, attended meetings, had the same conversations over and over again…

To those who are tired.

We see you.

There are moments when the weight of it all feels too much, when policies don’t reflect care,
when progress feels slow, when your voice feels like it disappears into the wind.

And in those moments, it’s okay to step back.
It’s okay to rest your heart.

Because this work has never been about burning out, it’s about staying.

🌱

Maybe right now is the time to celebrate what still exists.
To stand in the forest and remember why you began.
To share stories, food, laughter, and small moments of wonder.

Because when people come together in appreciation, something powerful happens, they begin to care.

And when people care, they protect.

🐝

To every nature protector feeling deflated,
you have not failed.

You are part of something much bigger, something slower, something that moves like seasons, not headlines.

And even when you step back…
the ripple of what you’ve done remains.

Take care of your heart.
Return when you’re ready.
Or simply come as you are.

We’re still here.
And there is still so much worth celebrating.

Us 🐝✨

Genius 📸 Melissa Zappeli

11/03/2026

The world is starting to pay attention to bees.

From scientists and farmers to filmmakers like James Cameron, whose upcoming project “Secrets of the Bees” shines a light on the extraordinary lives of these small but powerful pollinators.

Bees are not just honey makers.

They are ecosystem engineers.
Pollinators of forests, farms, and wild landscapes.
Quiet partners in the food systems that sustain us.

Honey bees.
Native bees.
Thousands of species, each playing a role in keeping life moving forward.

The more we understand bees, the more we realise something simple:

Protecting bees means protecting the conditions that allow life to flourish.

That’s why conversations around pollinators are growing around the world, from research labs to farms, gardens, and communities.

And it’s exactly the spirit behind the Northcliffe Bee Festival, where this year’s theme is Farming with Pollinators in Mind.

📅 24–25 October 2026
📍 Northcliffe, Western Australia

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