Queens, Bee Packages and Nucs can be purchased from all over the US & Canada. A lot of the packaged bees we see in Washington are coming from California, while a growing number of Oregon, Washington and Canadian options are becoming available.
2024 PSBA Vetted Vendors
If you are purchasing nucs, packages or queens please visit with our sponsors at one of our meetings (Jan – April).
Be sure to let them know you were referred by PSBA for the best pricing. Also be sure to check our monthly lessons page to download helpful getting started/ordering guides.
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Washington Statewide Bee Suppliers
Elite Bee and Honey, Seattle, Washington
Website: www.elitehoneyandbee.com
Contact: (206)633-2828
dave.schiefelbein@yahoo.com
We sell mated queens, packages and nucs in spring and mated queens throughout the season. We have 80-100 bee colonies in back yards spread throughout the Seattle metropolitan area. We teach beekeeping classes, sell raw honey online and offer private consultation to other beekeepers.
Beeline Apiaries & Woodware of WA, Rochester, Washington
Website: www.beelinewoodware.com
Contact: (360) 280-5274
beelineofwa@norcell.us
We are a manufacturer of beehives. We also sell packages and nucs.
Hive 5 Bees LLC Rochester, WA
Website: Hive5Bees.com
Contact: 757-376-2821 and rochesterbees@gmail.com
Specializing in providing high-quality 5 frame nucs. We also sell honey directly to consumers or in bulk for commercial manufacturing/production.
Woodland Bee Company Seattle, WA
Website: woodlandbeecompany.com
Contact: 206-880-0277 and jason@woodlandbeecompany.com
Based out of the heart of Ballard in Seattle, we have been keeping bees in the area since 2010 and pride ourselves in proper maintenance and husbandry and have colonies all over Seattle, Vashon Island and Snohomish farms.
We offer 1:1 mentoring, classes, bee packages, local nucs.
Samco Honey Orting, WA
Website: samcohoney.com
Contact: Samuel Guga 253-332-1485 and samcohoney@gmail.com
Local Apiary out of Orting/Sumner Valley. Family Owned since 2005. #1 goal is to provide high-quality bees to our community.
5-Frame Nucs
10- Frame Established Colony’s
Also available:
Honey (Consumers)
Honey (Commercial)
Contact us for any questions!
Coastal Farm and Ranch Auburn, WA Mount Vernon, WA Phone: 253-218-2021 https://www.coastalcountry.com/
Mountain Rain Bee Products 12305 28th St. Ct. E. Edgewood, WA 98372 Contact: Lincoln Mettler 253-826-3103 or cell: 253-330-4689 mettlerfamily@comcast.net 5 frame, 10 frame and 20 frame hives available in spring are from over wintered hives. May also have Old Sol queens available in the spring. Locally raised queens available in late spring and summer.
Northwest Bee Supply Sequim, WA Contact: Mike Radford 855.796.8544 / 907-360-8182 radford180@gmail.com northwestbeesupply.com Our bees are from McMinnville, Oregon so they have only a 4 hour drive from Oregon in the early morning. We deliver 3# and 4# packages to all areas north of Portland, Seattle, Olympic Peninsula up into all the San Juan Islands, Bellingham areas. We deliver 4# and 5# packages to Whidbey Island, Vashon Island and Alaska. In the Island areas we personally fly the bees to you in our Cessna 180, instead of a 5 hour drive.
Olympic Wilderness Apiary Contact: Dan Harvey Port Angeles, WA http://www.wildernessbees.com 360-928-3125 Since 1997 conducted accelerated natural selection from feral colonies captured in the remote Olympic Peninsula rainforests. These Wild Survivors are crossbred with the superior mite resistance and unsurpassed hygienic traits of the best USDA Primorsky Russian and VSH lines obtainable. Hybrid stock is chemical & antibiotic free and is proven to withstand the emerging pests & pathogens currently challenging the beekeeping industry. Limited Select honeybee queens available July through September.
Rainy Day Bees Contact: Peter Nolte, Shoreline, WA 206-519-8505 peter@rainydaybees.com rainydaybees.com Rainy Day Bees runs numerous small urban apiaries in the Seattle area and maintains breeding yards in Shoreline and Carnation. We produce local queens, and each Spring source high quality nucleus hives from Golden West Bees, run by Eric and Randy Oliver of Scientific Beekeeping.
Seola Bee Company Contact: Brad Jones, Seattle, WA 206-612-1068 https://seolabeecompany.square.site/ Queens are generally available in June and July. If you want more than a couple, please call in advance to be sure that I have stock on hand. Call or e-mail if your needs are greater to work out a plan.
Tarboo Valley Bees Quilcene, WA (business in WA, bees come from California) Calvin Lomsdalen 1-360-301-9970 http://tarboovalleybees.org/ We at Tarboo Valley Bees pride ourselves with providing only the best quality Honey Bee Stock. This is why we mainly buy from one of the top Honey Bee Apiaries (Olivarez Honey Bees) in California. We drive to California each Spring and handpick your bees. We load and transport the bees ourselves, to assure that they are handled properly and arrive in healthy condition.
West Hill Bee Products Auburn, WA 253-839-1942 westhillbeeproducts@yahoo.com We specialize in New World Carniolan. Our apiary is treatment-free and our stock queens are selected for gentleness, fast spring buildup, tracheal mite resistance and overwintering success. Each queen is kept in a separate nuc for continuous ovarian development and immediate recognition of a laying queen in new hives. Queen cells, virgin queens and nucs are available upon request. Queens are available throughout spring and summer. We also offer custom grafting from your queens.
Oregon
Ozarmour Eugene, OR
Website: https://ozarmour.co/en-us
Contact: 1-800-456-7923 and usmankhan.ozarmour@gmail.com
We are dedicated beekeepers and have beekeeping protective gear.
Old Sol Apiaries Rogue River, OR 541-582-2337 www.oldsolbees.com
Canada
Ferguson Apiaries Hensall, Ontario, Canada 519-236-4979 www.fergusonapiaries.on.ca
California
UBEES Fresno, CA
Website: ubees.com
Contact: 559-977-1314 and vflores@ubees.com
We are beginning our queen production and are taking orders now. We will begin shipping April 18th up until the end of May. Queen genetics are Italian and are naturally mated. $25/queen. Hives and queen cells are also available for local pick up. Please call 559-977-1314
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