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19th Annual Minco Honey Festival
Saturday, December 5, 2009
 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.)

       The Minco Honey Festival started nineteen years ago by the Minco Chamber of Commerce with nine craft booths. Now the Honey Festival, Saturday, December 5, has over 90 crafters, a quilt show, Antique Road Show, Honey Plant tours, kid’s Tractor Pull, and Made in Oklahoma products. 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.

      And tasty recipes that use honey?  These are great:  HONEY RECIPES (PDF format)

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

Here's a festival schedule (but see brochures above for more information):

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 Building
(Main & Hwy 81)
9:00 to 4:00		 QUILT SHOW – Beautiful quilts, hand made by local residents, will be displayed.  A Christmas quilt will be raffled.
MincoCity Hall
(Main & block west of Hwy 81)
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)
9:00 to 1:00		 ANTIQUE ROAD SHOW --  This event provides an opportunity for participants to receive information about their antiques.  Certified appraiser will be available.   $5 per item, with proceeds going to the Minco Historical Society for Minco's museum.  
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.
Next to 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.
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.  Pancakes and sausage breakfast.
All day LOCAL EATERIES  --   Coffee Cup, Dairy Boy, Mary Lou's Eagle's Nest Cafe,
                                               BBQ Barn, Simple Simons, Gas-N-Go  
11:00am  to 1:00pm SANTA CLAUS  --  at the gazebo downtown in Veteran's Park!
Mid day OKLAHOMA CHILDREN'S ACTING GUILD -- Singing musical selections from the Broadway musical "Annie".  Downtown on Main Street.

View the FESTIVAL BROCHURE

To print a copy of the festival brochure (PDF format):   Click here

 

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.