ICT Bee Fest
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10 am - 1 pm
Free for All Ages
Celebrate native pollinators at our third ICT Bee Fest
Grassland Groupies is hosting Wichita’s third annual ICT Bee Fest on Saturday September 27th.
Celebrate our native, wild pollinators at the Mid-America All-Indian Museum. Collect local native plant seeds, meet live native pollinators, and learn how to start a garden of Kansas wildflowers to help protect these important insects in your own backyard, school, or work.
Local growers and vendors will be selling native plants to help you bring a piece of the prairie home.
This FREE come-and-go event is perfect for pollinator lovers of all ages.
The supporters behind ICT Bee Fest 2024.
Your contributions of advertising, event space, and even funding our bumblebee hive made this event not only possible but extraordinarily memorable. Thank you for collaborating with us!
What should I expect at ICT Bee Fest?
Encounters with native pollinators, vendors selling native plants and other thematic goods, and tons of free activities celebrating native pollinators like butterflies, bumblebees, mason bees, and more for your entire group.
The interactive booths at ICT Bee Fest are facilitated by the Bee City Wichita committee and community partners like the Riverside Community Garden, The Xerces Society, Kansas Wildlife Exhibit, Kansas Master Gardeners, Sedgwick County Conservation District, Gallery Place Project, and individual community members.
Interested in vending for 2025?
Reach out to Nicole: nicole@grasslandgroupies.org
We are highly selective of our vendors. Priority will be given to native plant vendors.
By changing our gardens to be filled with beautiful native flowers, grasses, and shrubs we can make a huge difference. These native plants provide food, shelter, and a place to raise young that cannot be matched by non-native plants. It’s time to rethink our endless expanses of lawns.
An ICT Bee Fest timeline in photographs.
A huge thank you to our event photographer Doug Stice. There are many more photos than what we’ve posted here, and we are so grateful for Doug’s work documenting each event with such care.
Memories from 2024.
The second Bee Fest was even bigger than the first, with more vendors, more education partners, and over 750 people attending in the 3 hours.
Wichita raised hundreds of dollars to support locally sourced, public pollinator gardens in the metropolitan area, and our volunteers had nearly as much fun as attendees.
Memories from the first ICT Bee Fest.
2023 was our first ICT Bee Fest, and with over 500 attendees, Wichita surpassed all our expectations and showed up to support the Bee City Wichita project and celebrate native gardens and bees.
ICT Bee Fest is part of the Bee City Wichita initiative.
In February of 2023 Wichita became the first Bee City USA affiliate in the state of Kansas. This is our dedication to making a more pollinator-friendly city.
