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17th Annual Minco Honey Festival
Saturday, December 6, 2008
 Sponsored by the Minco Chamber of Commmerce

  (Minco is forty miles southwest of Oklahoma City, located on Highway 81 and 37, or about half way between Chickasha and El Reno.)

Click here for last year's OFFICIAL FESTIVAL BROCHURE (PDF format):   Front  side & Back side

       The Minco Honey Festival started seventeen years ago by the Minco Chamber of Commerce with nine craft booths. Now the Honey Festival, Saturday, December 1, has over 90 crafters, a quilt show, Antique Road Show, Honey Plant tours, kid’s Tractor Pull, Made in Oklahoma products, and the Tour of Homes. This year’s event is also a Certified Oklahoma Centennial Festival.

        This is the place to find pure sweet Oklahoma honey from the largest honey producing facility in the state. Tours of the Ross Honey Plant are given throughout the day by owners Jim and Glenda Ross. Honey products and gifts will be available for purchase.

       Beautiful quilts, hand made by local residents, will be displayed. In celebration of the centennial, the Minco guild made a quilt with turn of the century fabrics to be raffled. The festival also continues its tradition of a Honey Bake Off. Free samples will be available to the public.

      As the land of milk and honey, Minco dairy producers will have free samples of cheese and milk products. Attendees will notice the aroma of food throughout town from local restaurants and food vendors.

      The Antique Road Show provides an opportunity for participants to receive information about their antiques. Certified appraisers will be available to provide information, proceeds go to the Minco Historical Society.

     The day ends with a Tour of Homes, a favorite of locals. Tickets are available at downtown merchants throughout the day. Five homes, dressed in holiday garb and open to the public.

     It is a day to enjoy a feeling of an Old Fashioned Christmas in Minco, Oklahoma located on Highway 81 between El Reno and Chickasha, just 30 minutes southwest of Oklahoma City.

      Please contact the Minco Chamber of Commerce for more information at (405) 352-0518 and ask for Nancy or Deana.     Here's last year's (Dec 2007) schedule:

Ross Honey Plant
109 Belle St
1 blk N of Main
9:00 TO 4:00		  Honey Plant Tours – This is the place to find pure sweet Oklahoma honey from the largest honey producing facility in the state.  Tours of the Ross Honey Plant are given throughout the day by owners Jim and Glenda Ross. Honey products and gifts will be available for purchase
                                                                                       
National Guard Armory
Turn west on    Pontotoc  from Hwy 81
9:00 TO 4:00		 ARTS & CRAFTS –  Vendors include crafters, who have products or displays such as bird houses, cedar chests, quilt racks, honey candy, gourmet food products, saddle tack and blacksmithing. All craft booths are inside the Minco Armory and provide a warm place out of the wind of the day.
Sr Citizens Center
(Main & Hwy 81)
9:00 to 4:00		 QUILT SHOW – Beautiful quilts, hand made by local residents, will be displayed.  In celebration of the centennial, the Minco guild made a quilt with turn of the century fabrics to be raffled.
City Hall
(Main & 1st)
9:00-11:00 Registration
Judging at 12:00  		HONEY BAKE OFF  -- The festival continues its tradition of a Honey Bake Off. 
Free samples will be provided to the public from 1PM to 4PM.   (Entries must contain honey).
Minco History Center
(Minco Historical Museum)
10:00 to 3:00		 ANTIQUE ROAD SHOW --  This event provides an opportunity for participants to receive information about their antiques.  Certified appraisers will be available.   $5 per item, with proceeds going to the Minco Historical Society for Minco's new museum.  By the way, the newly opened Minco Historical Museum will have a  PHOTO EXHIBIT of early Minco.
City Hall
9:00 to 4:00		 DAIRY SAMPLES -- As the land of milk and honey, Minco dairy producers till have free samples of cheese and milk products.  Attendees will notice the aroma of food throughout town from local restaurants and food vendors.
Beside City Hall
11:00 Register
12:30 Contest		 KIDDIE TRACTOR PULL -- The little ones take turns on leg powered scale model tractors and increasing loads just like the big ones.
5:30PM to 9PM TOUR OF HOMES --  A favorite of locals.  Tickets are available at the businesses Blossom Time and Jan's, both located on Main Street, throughout the day.  
Eastern Star
on Main St
9:00 to 4:00		 MADE IN OKLAHOMA -- Booths in the Eastern Star building with products and gifts.
9AM TO 4pm, except for C of C breakfast. FOOD BOOTHS --  Chamber of Commerce Breakfast in the First
                                            Methodist Church, on hwy 81, 2 blks north of Main
                                            7:00 AM to 10 AM.  Breakfast.
                                            Eastern Star on Main Street (next to Blossom Time)
                                            Serving Stew, Cornbread, Hotdogs & Desserts
All day LOCAL EATERIES  --   Coffee Cup, Grady Cafe, Dairy Boy,
                                               Mary Lou's Eagle's Nest Cafe, BBQ Barn,
                                               Simple Simons, Gas-N-Go  
   2PM SANTA --  shows up at the armory

 

For more information contact the Minco Chamber of Commerce at (405) 352-0518 and ask for Nancy or Deana.

 To see pictures from earlier festivals,  click here.