You may not bee-lieve it but we’re not pollen your leg, Monmouth’s Bee Festival is going ahead this year.

The Monmouth Bee Festival is taking place Saturday, July 31 and Sunday, August 1.

Open gardens will be opened up for display on the Saturday and the event will be showing off the kitchen garden and wildflower meadow at Monmouth Comprehensive School (MCS).

Sunday will feature the festival, complete with stalls and information which will be held in the Nelson Garden and on Chippenham Fields (Millennium Fields).

Headteacher at MCS, Hugo Hutchison said: “The kitchen garden and wildflower meadow look really fantastic, and have been expertly led by Transition Monmouth. We are keen to enable students to have opportunities to take part, but this has been significantly restricted by Covid of course. We are looking forward to becoming more involved when restrictions lift sufficiently for us to do so.”

He added: “Transition Monmouth have also been involved in other environmental projects in partnership with us across the site. Our student-led Charity Committee has also made contact with Bees For Development to see if we can develop a partnership project for 2021-22.

‘‘We are all of course looking forward to the Bee Festival as much as everyone else.”