ICT Bee Fest
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10 am - 1 pm
Free for All Ages
If able, please park in the Exploration Place parking lot and walk across the bridge to enter the Indian Museum. Follow the signs!
Celebrate native pollinators.
Grassland Groupies is hosting Wichita’s second annual ICT Bee Fest on Saturday September 21st.
Celebrate our native, wild pollinators with us at the Mid-America All-Indian Museum. Collect Kansas wildflower seeds, build a bee hotel, and learn how to start a native garden 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.
Special thanks to these sponsors.
Your contributions of advertising, event space, and even 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?
Local vendors and tons of free activities for your entire group!
Local Vendors:
- Hidden River Prairie Nursery – a native prairie nursery in the Ninnescah River Valley, KS, selling locally-grown native plants
- Jill Zerger – totes, bookmarks, jewelry, garden decor
- Nudge Compost – facilitating food waste recycling in Wichita.
- Dummy Apparel Co. – originally designed unique streetwear that celebrates nature and comfort
- Seth Macy – selling locally grown Butterfly Milkweed and native plant artwork.
- Xerces Society
- Kansas Master Gardeners
- Sedgwick County Conservation District
- Riverside Community Garden
And others!
If you are interested in becoming a vendor please reach out to Nicole at nicole@grasslandgroupies.org. We are highly selective of our vendors and priority will be given to native plant vendors.
Free Activites:
- Take-Home Bee Hotels (while supplies last)
- Grassland Groupies’ Bumblebee Petting Zoo (ft. stinger-less all-male hives)
- Native Plant Vendors
- Butterfly House
- Monarch Butterfly Tagging
- Insect Netting
- Interactive Exhibits
- Native Gardening Experts
- Native Seed Separation Station
- Sedgwick County Conservation District’s Soil Tunnel
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.
2023 ICT Bee Fest memories...
Learn more about 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.
