07/28/2026
Celebrating 16 Years of Nanoose Bay Art in the Garden! 🌸✨
We are absolutely thrilled to celebrate 16 years of Art in the Garden at BumbleBees Farm & Garden! Thanks to our community's incredible support during this beautiful 3-day event, we are proud to share this year's partial entrance proceeds of $19,700.00 with three amazing organizations:
Nanoose Community Services: $14,400.00
Oceanside Special Olympics: $4,800.00
Nanoose Bay Fire Department: $500.00
This brings our 16-year lifetime donation total to over $144,086.00 directly supporting and making a difference in our beautiful community of Nanoose Bay and Oceanside!
A special thank you to all of our immensely talented 2026 artisans, musicians, food trucks, and food artisans who filled the garden with beauitful Art and amazing food.
To our Incredible Volunteers & Crew 🙌There would simply be NO Art in the Garden without our dedicated family, friends, volunteers, and crew.
A massive shoutout goes to our core Art in the Garden committee members—especially Kris, Kim, Livvy, Lisa, Terrie, Arianna, Sheila, Barb, Merrien, Christina, Linda, Hannah, Jo, Melissa, Jennifer, Maddy, Marten, David, Dekaiah, Riley, Stan, Colin, and Mike.
Thank you for the months of hard work preparing the farm, organizing the stellar music lineup, managing social media, handling technical support (shoutout to Dekaiah Haupt!), capturing memories thank you, Dekaiah & Ryan for Photography, and keeping everything running smoothly.
Thank you NBES Fire Department for be on site for fire retention for our artisans parking at The Hazel Nut Farm during fire season. Señor Hogs Roadhouse for proving the Saturday night dinner for our family, neighbours and Art in the Garden Comittee.
We also extend a warm thank you to our wonderful neighbours and to Jennifer Hufnagel for her awesome community video chit-chats!
Shuttle & Parking Sponsors 🚌🚗of our free public parking and shuttle service was a massive success this year! We are incredibly grateful to our generous sponsors and partners:
Sponsors: Team Susan Forrest, Janie's Got a Bus and BumbleBees Creative Studio!
Transport & Parking Hosts: Janie's Got a Bus, Vancouver Island Coach Lines, Nanoose Bay Elementary School (NBES), Nanoose Place, and The Hazel Nut Farm and Stone Tree Farms (which safely parked 100's of vehicles for free public parking!)
The winners who parked and took the free shuttle Service keeping are street safe are: Jamie E. Madison V. Cheryl W. winning $50 gift Cards to the Rusted Rake!
Thank You, Nanoose Bay! ☀️The perfect weather was the cherry on top of an unforgettable weekend. Whether you stepped onto the farm to shop local, enjoy live music, or taste delicious food—THANK YOU for standing with our local arts community.
We are in awe of your support and cannot wait to see you all again next year! 🌿
Thank you - Nanoose Bay Art in the Garden Committee
