Honey farms in
British Columbia

A honey farm in southeast Kelowna with a farm store and gift shop. Honey, pollen, beeswax and propolis, plus beeswax candles, lip balms, lotion bars and honey soap. They run farm tours, booked ahead, that finish with a taste of honey.

Bees on southern Vancouver Island since 1945, started by Babe and Charlie Warren with a credit union loan and one hive Charlie found in the forest. Two shops now, one at Galey Farms on Blenkinsop Road in Victoria and one in Sidney, both doing honey refills into your own container.

A farm store on King George Boulevard in South Surrey, open daily, with a drive-thru window if you already know what you want. Raw cold extracted honey, and they do the farmers market rounds.

A family run, woman owned business in the Okanagan making infused honey in small batches. They keep several hundred colonies of their own and infuse with whole herbs, flowers and fruit rather than oils. Lavender, lemon, vanilla and cinnamon among them.

A Fraser Valley apiary running about 700 hives, going since 1999. Most of the work is pollination for organic berry farms, along with raising their own queens and nucs. The honey is extracted and bottled locally.

A small Metro Vancouver honey business, registered as Veezveez Honey Farm Ltd. They bottle raw and liquid blueberry blossom honey from their own apiaries in British Columbia, plus raw honeycomb and pollen granules, and deliver free around Metro Vancouver on orders of a kilogram or more.

A family run bee farm on the east coast of Vancouver Island, going since 2007. The honey stand at the farm on Endall Road is open from half past seven until dark, cash or e-transfer. Their honey is also in shops from Cortes Island down to Victoria.

A family run business on Boundary Road at Telkwa, in northern British Columbia. Their bees work the wildflowers of the Bulkley Valley. Raw honey, creamed and infused honeys, beeswax candles, soap, salves and lip balm.

A family run farm and apiary in southwest Abbotsford with a country store. Specialty honeys, beeswax and candles, pollen and propolis, and honey wine from their own meadery. They run farm tours, workshops and classes, and sell beekeeping equipment.

A small family apiary at Greendale in the Fraser Valley, keeping bees since 1979. Unpasteurised honey, hand poured and barely filtered, along with propolis, royal jelly, pollen and beeswax candles. The farm store is on Adams Road, and they have their own stall at Granville Island Public Market in Vancouver.

A Vancouver Island farm keeping bees in nine spots around the Saanich Peninsula, with a farm store open seven days a week.

A honey house in the south Okanagan run by beekeeper Shelley, who has been producing and packing honey for more than twenty years. Everything is kept at low temperatures so the honey is not altered by heat, and it is left to granulate on its own.

Started in 1996 by Ron Lin, who has a PhD in bee science from Simon Fraser, with sixteen hives. It is now a 173 acre operation with thousands of hives, still family run, and his son Richard took over as chief executive in 2025. Raw and infused honey, propolis, pollen, royal jelly and skincare.

A family run honey farm at Cedar, just south of Nanaimo, going since 1966. The shop is a big red barn at the end of Lazy Susan Drive, with a sample station and honey refills. Unpasteurised honey, pollen and propolis, plus beeswax candles, soap, salves and lip balm.

An apiary in the Peace River country of northern British Columbia, run by Robert Gifford. Raw, unpasteurised, unfiltered honey, and handmade soap. There is a small farm stand at the end of the driveway, and they ask you to call first.

An apiary listed with the Alberta commission but addressed at Mission in the Fraser Valley.

A family run honey farm in the Fraser Valley with a farm store on Old Dewdney Trunk Road. They sell honey, live bees and queens, and beekeeping supplies.

A small bee farm in Langley selling raw honey from their own hives, along with nucs and full hives for other beekeepers. They have no website and no shop. Orders go through a message on their Instagram.

A second generation family apiary running more than a thousand hives across the Okanagan and the Peace River valleys, with a farm store on Highway 97.

A honey business on 176 Street in Surrey, listed under Honeybee Enterprises Ltd.

One of the bigger BC producers, going since 1973, with more than 8,000 hives around the province. They are known for single blossom honeys from berry crops.

A family bee farm in South Surrey since 2001, running about 500 hives. Their bees forage from Richmond out to Abbotsford, on blueberry, raspberry, cranberry, blackberry, clover, maple and wildflowers. In their words, they sell only honey their own bees made, harvested and packed by them. They also do pollination work for local farms.

Nicola Valley Gourmet Honey, made by bees on the unsprayed ranchlands around Merritt. Pure and unpasteurised, in sizes from a small 45 gram jar up to a 15 kilogram pail, and some of it in handmade pottery jars. Shops around the region carry it.

A family farm in the Similkameen at Keremeos, running about 600 colonies alongside ten acres of mixed orchard and a small beef herd. Liquid and creamed honey, fruit flavoured honeys, pollen and propolis. The farm gate store does bulk honey and jar refills.

A honey farm and store on Bella Vista Road outside Vernon, open all year. They keep hives on site and on farmland down the road, and bottle and label by hand in the shop. They are straight about it: some of what they sell is their own and some is bought from other beekeepers. There is a tasting bar and a meadery.

A pollinator sanctuary high on the Malahat on Vancouver Island. Wildflower honey from their own hives, plus beeswax candles, honey herbal skincare and loose leaf teas made with herbs and fruit grown on the farm.

A small apiary in the Kootenays, harvesting in protected mountain forest south of Trout Lake. They say there is no farming and no industry within 25 kilometres, so the bees work wild flowers, wild berries and trees. Small batches, and they sell only at the apiary, not online and not through shops.

A honey company on McGrath Road at Rosedale, in the eastern Fraser Valley.