These applications are for beekeepers, farmers, featured speakers, local artists, non-profits, food vendors only. The Tennessee Honey Festival is devoted to maintaining a creatively driven vendor marketplace. Therefore, we limit the number of promotional spaces at the event. Local businesses can get involved and be a part of the Tennessee Honey Festival through sponsorship of the event. Please contact our event coordinator via email at: thehive@tnhoneyfestival.com for more information regarding sponsorship opportunities with the Tennessee Honey Festival. *Acting in its sole discretion, the Tennessee Honey Festival reserves the right to reject any application for any reason.

main sponsor

festival Dates & Times

Saturday, September 24th, 2022

(9am – 6pm)

LOCATION

Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park

600 James Robertson Pkwy, Nashville, TN 37243 

EVENT INFO

The TNHF would not exist without the support and presence of our beloved beekeepers, apiaries, honey vendors, farmers, and producers.  

The festival wants to celebrate you! We will have Tennessee farmers and apiarists surrounded by live musical acts, local artisan vendors, local honey vendors, and even cooking demonstrations. Honey, produce, seeds, grains, plants, and soil will be for sale along with educational opportunities including beekeeping, canning, bread-making, food storage, gardening, and more!  

By incorporating farming into the footprint of the TNHF, we are building stronger connections bee-tween farmers, seeds, soil + bees. We hope that you will bee involved! 

IMPORTANT DATES

Payment deadline for vendors – As soon as application process is complete and has been approved by festival mgmt.

SPACE FEES 

Honey Vendor/Beekeeper: ($0*) – Vendors who make their own honey or have their own beekeeping business.

Artist Vendor Booth: ($200.00*) – Local Businesses who sell hand-made items by other local artists/crafters. (*Must have WHITE-top colored 10×10 tent).

ARTIST CATEGORIES
Artist categories are used by The Tennessee Honey Festival as a tool to ensure vendor diversity at the event. Please find descriptions of media categories below:

Candles: Personally concocted scent profiles and hand-poured candles and wax melts

Ceramics: All original clay and porcelain work other than jewelry is accepted in this category. No machine-made or mass produced work is permitted.

Clothing: Hand-sewn articles of clothing by you.

Digital Art: This category includes any original work for which the original image, or the manipulation of other source material, was executed by the artist using a computer. Traditional photographs taken through a digital media should apply in the photography category.

Drawing: Works created using dry media including chalk, charcoal, pastels, pencil, wax crayon, etc. or from the fluid medium of inks and washes applied by pen or brush are to be entered in this category.

Fiber: All work crafted from fibers including basketry, embroidery, weaving, leatherwork, tapestry and paper-making. This can be wearable or non-wearable.

Glass: No forms of mass production are permitted. Mass produced glassware vendors should fill out the Local Business Vendor Form.

Health/Beauty: Beauty (skincare, make up, etc) products hand-made and concocted by you. No mass-produced products are allowed.

Jewelry: All jewelry whether the work is produced from metal, glass, clay, fiber, paper, plastic or other materials must be entered in this category. No commercial casts, molds or production studio work is allowed.

Metalworks: Includes all non-sculptural, non-jewelry works crafted from metals. No production studio work is allowed.

Painting: Works created in oils, acrylics, watercolor, etc. are in this category.

Paper Making/Book Arts: Hand-binded journals, notebooks, etc.

Photography: Photographic prints made from the artist’s original image, which have been processed by that artist, or under his or her direct supervision, are included in this category.

Printmaking: Printed works for which the artist’s hand manipulated the plates, stones or screens and which have been properly signed and numbered as a limited edition may be entered in this category.

Sculpture: Three-dimensional original work done in any medium.

Wood: Original works in wood that are hand-tooled, machine-worked, turned or carved are accepted in the wood category.

Non-Profits* – Non-profits must be a registered as 501c3.

Food Vendors: ($300.00*) – Food Trucks and Food Businesses who sell honey-infused or honey-themed food, desserts, and/or beverages.

DETAILS

Applications will be reviewed beginning May 2022. You will receive further information if you have been accepted into the event. 

Hours of event are (9am to 6pm) on Saturday, September 24th, 2022.

Artists retain all revenue from the sale of their work with no commission on sales due to The Tennessee Honey Festival. 

Once you receive email notification for being accepted into the event, you must pay your vendor fee immediately to secure your spot. Failure to respond by a reasonable deadline may result in revocation of the invitation and immediate invitation of an applicant from the waiting list.

Get involved today and be a part of the cause and solution to help raise awareness of our sweet honey bees and local pollinators!