West Seattle Bee Garden

Bee Fest was amazing! We had some very PNW weather, but we stuck it out. Thank you so much to all our vendors! Ask a Master Gardener, Tilth Alliance, DNDA, City of Seattle Waste Water Management, WA Native Bee Atlas, Puget Sound Beekeepers Association, Friends of West Seattle Elementary, Suzanne Simmons, Master Composters, and thank you to our amazing volunteers!

West Seattle Bee Festival is go! Come on down and see the bees and fans!

Who is so excited for the West Seattle Bee Festival??? Come celebrate World Bee Day (a little early) on the 16th from 11 to 3! Meet a drone bee, make buttons, learn about our brilliant pollinators, our environment and celebrate the West Seattle Bee Garden!

Iiiittt'ssss happening!!!
If you have not been out for a West Seattle Bee Festival before, this is your year! If you have, we promise it is different every year!
If you want to volunteer, let us know by emailing [email protected]!
May 16th, 11-3!

Congratulations! It's bees!!!
The hives have been comfortably set up, thank you to my amazing helpers, Ty and Jason! They are gorgeous hybrids vaccinated against Varroa.
Please come visit them, to welcome them home, especially on May 16th when we will be having our Annual West Seattle Bee Festival.

We have bees! They came in late last night and we are putting them in their new home today! We are aiming at 10 so everything can warm up a bit. If you can't make it today, we will be doing our first check on the 3rd during farm day, so join us to meet our new kids!

Whhhaaattt!!!!!
Our new hives have shipped! 2 packages of Live Bees are on their way to West Seattle! Arriving (probably) Monday, we will be putting up the hives in the early afternoon (as soon as they are delivered)!
Please come join if you'd like, we will post as we know our timing.
Otherwise, come visit the new babies the rest of the week to give them positive energy and support in their establishing a new home!

Today we got up fresh chicken wire to protect the new bees, set to arrive in 2 weeks!!
We also had to put up a bee-safe wasp trap. Not our favorite thing in the world, but we had a pretty solid several nests built over the winter, and we need our new bee friends to be safe.
The bees are set to deliver the 22nd if you are interested in joining us, timing will be posted as soon as we get confirmation.
Then we will start regular monthly classes and meet ups to talk bees!

Huge thanks to Thyra of for bringing incredible enthusiasm and knowledge of Mason bees to girl scouts this afternoon. And, big thanks to troop #43899 for sponsoring this year's Mason bees in the bee garden!

The scouts got to hold a baby bee cocoon, and are now equipped to set up their bees in the garden, monitor for and other pests, and know when to pull the house out of the garden to preserve the cocoons. Did you know Mason bee houses need to be cleaned every year to control for mites, mono wasp, Houdini fly and foulbrood fungus?? Rent Mason Bees does that dirty work for you. They also provide loads of education on their YouTube channel so you can learn to do it yourself.

They still have Mason and leafcutter bee kits available, check out their pop up at the tomorrow, Saturday, March 28th, 12-2pm.

It's happening!! We are setting up the apiary for new bay-bees! Their stands are put in, we have new native plants to grow up, and the bees are ordered!
Stay tuned for an announcement about a delivery date and join us for installing our new bees in April!
Current estimate is April 20th, and we would love to have you join us to see what it looks like to set up new hives!
See you all soon in the Bee Garden!