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32nd Annual Minco Honey
Festival
Saturday, December 3, 2022
Sponsored by the Minco Chamber of
Commerce |
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(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 the viewable, printable
official brochure in PDF format)
Click
here for official brochure as viewable web page
The
Minco Honey Festival started
thirty two years ago by the Minco Chamber of Commerce with
nine craft booths. Now the Honey Festival, Saturday, December 3, has over 90
crafters, a quilt show, Honey Plant tours, kid’s Tractor
Pull, and Made in Oklahoma products.
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.
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.
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 click and see brochure below for more information):
Ross Honey Plant
109 Belle St
1 blk N of Main
1.5 blk E of Hwy 81
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, candy, and gifts will be available for purchase
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Minco School
(3 buildings)
311 SW 6th,
(6th and Burt)
Turn west on Burt 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,
honey baskets, gourmet food products, wood, and iron crafts. For booth space or information, call Ann
Barnes 405-642-7136
Email:
MincoHoneyFestival@att.net |
City Hall
on Main Street |
DAIRY SAMPLES
-- As the
land of milk and honey, Braum's Dairy and the Minco Chamber of
Commerce will have free samples
of milk, chocolate milk, and cheese. |
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. |
| 10:00 - 4:00 pm |
SANTA CLAUS
--
Downtown, featuring 21st Century Santa
Toy Drive: In need of new, unwrapped toys. |
| At the High School (Arts & Crafts)
9 to 4 |
TV Celebrity Lucas Ross
will be at the Arts and Crafts Show.
Emmy award winning Minco native Lucas Ross has
appeared in in feature films, national television shows and hundreds
of regional commercials. Lucas can be seen weekday mornings on
Freedom 43's "Rise and Shine". When he's not on TV, he's
playing the banjo and has released three bluegrass comedy albums, "Son
of a Beekeeper", "Banjo Farms." and "Banjos
in Space". |
7 to 10 AM
1st Methodist Church |
Chamber of Commerce Breakfast
in the First
Methodist Church,
on hwy 81, 2 blks north of Main 7:00 AM to 10 AM. Shawnee
Mills pancakes and
sausage breakfast |
| All day |
LOCAL
EATERIES
-- See brochure. |
Cotton Plant/Gin
9 TO 4 EAST OF TOWN |
GREAT
PLAINS COTTON GIN
Tours
on the hour at the cotton plant. Located 1 1/4 mile east of
4-way stop sign on Main St. on Highway 37 |
Carriage Rides
10AM to 2PM |
CARRIAGE RIDES
by Thompson Carriages
At the Veteran Park downtown
$5 per person. Five yrs old and under free. |
Baptist Church
Friday Dec 4
7:00 pm |
LITTLE
MISS HONEY BEE CONTEST
Contestants must be in 1st , 2nd, or 3rd grade and a Minco resident.
Contact Shelby Morgan, 405-535-8001
(Note date is FRIDAY 7:00PM) |
To view or print the official festival brochure (PDF
format),
Click
here
Click here for official
brochure as viewable web page
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.
