Downtown Black Mountain’s annual Sourwood Festival is a vibrant celebration of bees and locally produced sourwood honey. This year’s festival will be held from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9.
The festival includes a line-up of live music, food trucks, and more than 100 vendors — including many with local honey and bee products produced from their hives.
Since 1977, Black Mountain has drawn in more than 30,000 annual attendees for the Sourwood Festival. This summer community celebration marks the beginning of the sourwood honey-selling season. This unique honey is gathered from the sourwood tree, a native tree in the Southern Appalachian region…