Events for May 17, 2025
Langstroth’s Literary Bee
In May, stop by the GPL Local History Room as we celebrate Reverend Lorenzo Langstroth, Greenfield resident and the “Father of Modern Beekeeping”. Langstroth developed the moveable frame beehive, which made it possible to harvest honey and check on the bee's health without destroying the bee hive. When Langstroth wrote his classic book Hive and the Honey-Bee in 1853, he included inspiration from some of the English language’s great poets and playwrights. Langstroth generally quoted a select few lines of poetry or prose, but we have expanded those to show the full context of the material. Think of this as a literary garden, with a Langstroth bee flying among its lines and branches. The self-guided program will be on view in the Local History Room for the month of May.
Bootleggers Footwear Center 20% off Sandal Sale
Bootleggers Footwear Center 261 Mohawk Trail, Greenfield20% Off Regularly Priced Sandals. Step into savings with our 20% off Sandal Sale! We've got the perfect pair waiting just for you. With our large selection of sandals in stock, you're sure to find a new favorite sandals for you or even the whole family! *20% off in store only, Not on previous purchases, Some exclusions do apply. See store for details*
The Overlap: A GCC Student Group Exhibition
The Overlap - a GCC student group exhibition, showing work by artists Acadia Black, Emilio DiDonna, Calla Hubert, Caroline James, Nayana LaFond, Tyler Milliken, Charis Mockel-Cole, Olivia Vassar, Morgan Willis, Rich Sergeiko-Marcotte. These students are apart of Greenfield Community College’s Visual Arts Seminar instructed by Chenda Cope The opening reception is free and open to the public! Friday, May 9th, 5pm-8pm Please check our website for weekly gallery hours: www.artspacegreenfield.org/#artspace-hours
Solo Exhibition by Lydia M Kinney
Lydia M Kinney’s Solo Exhibition showcases vibrant, structured and layered abstracted paintings. Lydia is a GCC Alum based in Greenfield. The opening reception is free and open to the public! Friday, May 9th, 5pm-8pm Please check our website for weekly gallery hours: www.artspacegreenfield.org/#artspace-hours
Sweet as Honey Sale
Sweet as Honey – A Limited-Time Event at Aliber’s! 🍯 Get ready to fall in love with savings during our Sweet as Honey event at Aliber’s Bridal – join us during BeeFest, where style meets irresistible deals! For a limited time only: ✨ Take $200 off a curated selection of gowns from our Designer’s Showcase Wedding Dresses – available when purchased from inventory only. These exclusive styles are handpicked for their elegance, quality, and wow factor. ✨ Enjoy 50% off all in stock 2025 Season Prom Dresses – last minute shopping (or shopping EARLY for 2026), save big, and stand out on your special night. Whether you're saying "I do" or making a grand entrance, this event is your golden opportunity to shine. Hurry – these sweet savings won’t last long!
Bee-tastic Bee Fest Sale
15% off storewide
Greenfield Bee Fest 2025
15th Annual Greenfield Bee Fest – Saturday, May 17, 2025 Each spring, Greenfield Bee Fest celebrates Lorenzo Langstroth, the “Father of Modern Beekeeping,” with fun and learning for all ages as we highlight the vital role of the honeybee in sustaining our environment. Greenfield Bee Fest 2025 Downtown Greenfield, Massachusetts Friday, May 16 2-5pm: Pioneer Valley Food Tours will offer “A Taste of Honey” downtown Greenfield tour. Reservations required: pioneervalleyfoodtours.com and click "Book online" 4-9pm: Four Phantoms Brewing Company, 301 Wells Street, will offer FREE samples of its Lion's Skull Mead, "A bone-dry mead made with wildflower honey – floral aromas with mild notes of passionfruit and ripe citrus," plus a 10% discount on cans of mead purchased from the taproom. Saturday, May 17 9am-12:30pm Activities for Children (must be accompanied by and adult) KID Crafts - make hats, clay bee beads with Artspace, beehive painting and bee games FREE bee bags for kids Bee face-in-hole photo op Bee Observation Hive, find the Queen Bee (Franklin County Beekeepers) FREE plants (Pioneer Gardens in Deerfield) Activities for the Whole Family Beehive painting - Decorate a side of a hive for use by local apiaries Shop the BEE BAZAAR: Everything Bee-themed, for kids & adults. We’ve curated rare,…
Pop Up Library
Join us at the Greenfield Farmers Market as we celebrate Bee Fest with a Pop Up Library at the Greenfield Farmers Market!! Join us for a special Bee Storytime with GPL Director Anna Bognolo at 11:00 am, make your own bee button, and learn what the buzz is at your Greenfield Public Library!
Just Roots Spring Festival and Seedling Sale
Just Roots Farm 34 Glenbrook Drive, GreenfieldJust Roots, a local farming and food access organization, will host its annual Spring Festival and Seedling Sale on Saturday, May 17th from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm at the Greenfield Community Farm (34 Glenbrook Drive, Greenfield). The celebration will host an abundant selection of plants for sale, grown by nearly a dozen local farms and nurseries. The Just Roots Spring Festival and Seedling Sale is free and open to the public. Visitors will find a wide selection of vegetable starts, fruiting plants, culinary and medicinal herbs, vibrant flowers and native pollinators from Just Roots, MXED GREENS, Checkerspot Farm, Sage Green Botanicals, People’s Medicine Project, Sawmill Herb Farm, Foxtrot Farm, and A Wing and A Prayer Nursery. The event will also feature local craft vendors as well as food for purchase from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm from Mohawk Grill and Cocina Lupita. More information can be found at https://justroots.org/event/spring-festival-seedling-sale-2/. New this year, a bonus seedling sale will run on Sunday, May 18 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, featuring additional plants grown by Just Roots.
Staples Small Business Showcase
Come and meet our New Greenfield, Staples team, who are honored and happy to serve our Greenfield Ma Community. Juan Santiago New General Manager Sam Cirillo New Assistant Manager Matt Jacques New Merchandising Supervisor Rebecca Knapp our resident Print Production Supervisor and a host or our amazing associates. Also, Join us for a Meet and greet some of some of our local business partners and get to know who they are, and what they are offering our local Greenfield Ma community.
Children’s Author Visit: Jessica Montalvo-Jackson
Meet Jessica Montalvo-Jackson, children’s book author and educator with a local connection on Saturday, May 17 at 10:30 am. Listen to her read her books Mimi Can’t Camouflage and The Otter in Charge, followed by a craft activity. For more information, contact Ellen Lavoie at [email protected] or call (413) 772-1544 x5104. This program, made possible through the generosity of the Friends of the Greenfield Public Library, is free and intended for ages 4 - 8.
BEE FEST PLANT SWAP & MEAD SALE at FOUR PHANTOMS
Swing by on Saturday after Bee Fest with your excess plants, seeds, and starts and browse for some new additions to your plant collection. Plants and Pints! Mead crowlers are discounted all week. 🐝🐝🐝 and we’re featuring, Worship Bloom, our Lion’s Skull mead prepared with your choice of homemade lavender or lilac syrup. Smoked hot-honey glazed hot dogs are on special too.
Occult Poetics: Talk by CA Conrad
In this talk, CAConrad will discuss how poets’ occult and paranormal experiences and practices in the past show us how to trust that these same forces are alive and at work today. Rumi, Hannah Weiner, Will Alexander, Hoa Nguyen, Alice Notley, and Ariana Reines are some poets whose work and practices we will investigate. CA will also discuss (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals as a practice for all writers and artists. These rituals provide a window into the creative viability of everything around us, initiating an “extreme present,” where we learn how, even in crisis, we can thrive through the poems and learn to collaborate in unexpected ways with other artistic disciplines. Former US-Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in The New York Times, “CAConrad’s poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and the mysterious.” CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024). They received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a…
Just Roots Spring Festival and Seedling Sale
Just Roots Farm 34 Glenbrook Drive, GreenfieldJust Roots, a local farming and food access organization, will host its annual Spring Festival and Seedling Sale on Saturday, May 17th from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm at the Greenfield Community Farm (34 Glenbrook Drive, Greenfield). The celebration will host an abundant selection of plants for sale, grown by nearly a dozen local farms and nurseries. The Just Roots Spring Festival and Seedling Sale is free and open to the public. Visitors will find a wide selection of vegetable starts, fruiting plants, culinary and medicinal herbs, vibrant flowers and native pollinators from Just Roots, MXED GREENS, Checkerspot Farm, Sage Green Botanicals, People’s Medicine Project, Sawmill Herb Farm, Foxtrot Farm, and A Wing and A Prayer Nursery. The event will also feature local craft vendors as well as food for purchase from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm from Mohawk Grill and Cocina Lupita. More information can be found at https://justroots.org/event/spring-festival-seedling-sale-2/. New this year, a bonus seedling sale will run on Sunday, May 18 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, featuring additional plants grown by Just Roots.