Driftwood Honey Harvest Festival

Celebrate the amazing honeybee! A family-friendly event with beekeeping education, harvest demos, honey tastings & more.
About this Event

Join us at the Vista ranch for a free, family-friendly event on Saturday, July 25 for a celebration of pollinators, honeybees & all things HONEY, presented by the Texas Natural Beekeepers Association and Vista Brewing.

From 11am to 3 pm, you can enjoy:

• Honeybee education, including an observation hive, a frame of live and active honeybees in a fully enclosed box with a viewing window
• Honey tastings from apiaries around Hays County - taste the natural variance in honeys based on what bees have foraged
• Live demonstrations of extracting & spinning honey
• Honey food specials from the Vista Grill
• Trying on a bee suit
• Kids’ activities including a scavenger hunt, coloring sheets & painting a bee box
• Hosted walk to the Vista apiary & TNBA teaching apiary
• Demonstration of how to render pure beeswax using a solar melter
• Samples of Hive Mind Honey Ale, the sixth iteration of Vista's award-winning collaboration with local beekeepers
• The release of the 2026 harvest from Vista's onsite apiary, all-natural comb honey and raw honey

Visit with these local partners:

• Texas Natural Beekeepers Association will be onsite if you’re interested in learning how to get started beekeeping. TNBA's mission is to encourage an educated and intelligent nature-centric management of honeybee colonies with the end goal of a chemical-free and sustainable approach to beekeeping and honey making.
• Hunter's Hive Candles is a a family owned and operated business that sells scented beeswax candles. All of our products are made with pure, filtered beeswax and are infused with essential oils.
• Beanz Creamz will be onsite with sweet treats! Beanz Creamz is a local ice cream manufacturer who specializes in tapping into your nostalgia by adding our elevated gourmet twist into a portable push pop style container. Everything is handmade from scratch, using commonly found, and easy to pronounce ingredients...you won't want to miss their honey-inspired pop!!
• Grow Slow is a mother-daughter pop-up shop in Austin, TX, with a simple idea: sell easy-care plants (think cactus, succulents & houseplants), create beauty & teach entrepreneurial skills.
• Other partners to be announced!

Vista Brewing is a 21-acre ranch in the Hill Country town of Driftwood, just 25 minutes southwest of Austin. Vista is open with a full lunch and dinner menu, beer, wine and non-alcoholic drink options.

Vista has an apiary on site, which helps in pollination of wildflowers and vegetables. Vista intentionally planted 8+ acres of wildflowers to support our honeybees.

This event benefits the Texas Natural Beekeeper Association’s (TNBA) Youth Scholarship & Mentoring Program. This is a multi-year progressive program which teaches youth ages 12-17 about natural and sustainable beekeeping. The teaching apiary for this program is located on Vista's ranch.

Honey Menu Specials to Be Announced