About beekind
Welcome to our beautiful beekind honey store where honey is pure, raw, natural and pesticide free. Throughout the beekind store you’ll find everything to do with bees including tips and tidbits on the healthful benefits of honey, royal jelly, propolis, bee pollen and beeswax. Beautiful and Healthful beeswax candles and beeswax candle making supplies. You can even become a beekeeper at beekind.
Locations:
Sebastopol Map
San Francisco Map
Days of Closure:
The Sebastopol is closed New Years Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. The Ferry Building location is closed New Years Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Online sales are available 24/7 through our online store at beekind.com.
Shipping:
beekind will ship most products anywhere in the U.S.
Return Policy:
Customers are responsible for all return shipping costs, except for in the event of a product defect. All products are packed securely. Any damages, which may occur during shipment, must be reported to the shipping company and to beekind within 2 days of receipt. Beekind will make every effort to replace or refund damaged product, based on verification provided by the recipient or shipping company. Original packing box(es) must be available for return or inspection. If a package shows damage upon receipt, please refuse delivery and contact beekind immediately.
Bee Farm Tours:
beekind offers self guided tours to small groups daily. Just come on by. Visit our real bee hives in our beautiful bee garden. Taste over 50 different honeys at our delicious tasting bar. Browse our beekeeping supply store and learn all about bees, beekeeping and how bees behave.
We also offer Guided Tours to large groups upon approval.
Tasting Bar:
At beekind, you can sample a delicious array of flavorful, colorful, local and varietal honeys, organic herb infused honeys, honeys from all over the U.S. and honeys from other countries. All just waiting to bee tasted.
Pure Beeswax Candles:
The sweet honey and pure beeswax smell is an added ambience to a lovely decorated shop that overflows with ideas for gift givers. You’ll find 100% pure beeswax handcrafted candles (reasonably priced) in almost every color and in many sizes and shapes.
Beeswax is made by the bees, derived from the nectar of flowers. Honeybees fly 150,000 miles and visit over ten million flowers to collect enough nectar to produce one pound of wax. Burning beeswax can be beneficial to your health. Beeswax creates negative ions that make floating particles in the air heavy. This helps to clean the air you breathe. Beeswax burns up to 30% longer than paraffin. Beeswax is a renewable resource.
Gifts and Gift Baskets:
Let us assist you in creating your own customized basket or select a readymade gift basket filled with imagination. Free gift wrapping with any basket or gift anytime at our store.
Honey Bee Products:
beekind carries all sorts of honey bee products including: raw honeys, varietal honeys, comb honey, creamed honey, fresh bee pollen, dried bee pollen, royal jelly and propolis products.
Handcrafted Goods:
beekind also sells many hand crafted lotions, creams, shampoos and conditioners and promotes locally made products that have anything to do with bees.
Creamed Honey:
Creamed honey is created by controlling honey crystallization. Sometimes called whipped or butter honey, creamed honey is smooth and creamy and spreads like soft butter. Our creamed honeys have nothing artificial added. Pure fruit and real spice and herbs.
Beeswax Sheets:
Pure Beeswax Sheets Get creative and make Beautiful Rolled Candles And Gorgeous Gifts.
A large array of colors of Honeycomb Patterned and Flat Beeswax Sheets await your touch at beekind. Simple and beautiful to make, rolling you own allows you and your children to make candle making easy and fun. Over 30 different beautiful, rich and fabulous colors in 8" x 16.5" beeswax sheets.
Beeswax Lotion Bars:
At beekind we make a solid hand lotion (that in most cases you can take on a plane). Our lotion bars are are blended with fine butters, cold pressed oils, and essential oils. These lotions are certain to protect, soothe, heal and rejuvenate your skin.
100% Pure Beeswax:
Beeswax is a natural wax made by bees and used by bees to build combs for which they will raise their young in and store honey and pollens. Humans often use beeswax in fine candle making and as an ingredient in long lasting soaps, creamy natural cosmetics and creams, lotions and polishes.
Candle making Supplies, Wick and Wicks:
We have many different sizes of wicks, wick tabs and miscellaneous candle making supplies and accessories. All our wicks are led and metal free.
Benefits of Raw Honey:
Raw Honey is honey that has not been heated over 108 degrees. After that temperature honey begins to lose some of its benefits. Research shows that honey improves bronchitis, asthma, and allergies.
Honey is also used to alleviate depression, fatigue, insomnia and skin disorders, to hasten the healing of wounds, facilitate digestion, as a sedative and antitoxic, and for its antiseptic effects. Honey has natural anti microbial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Honey can be used as a preservative.
Pollen:
Pollen is one of the most complete foods in nature. It increases the body’s resistance to stress, disease and speeds up the healing process. All Pollens possess proteins, amino-acids, sugar, minerals, vitamins, hormones, fats, aromatic substance and of course, water.
Pollen contains 25% to 30% protein by weight, provides all 22 known amino acids, minerals, water-soluble vitamins, enzymes and carbohydrates. Honeybee Pollen is a natural low calorie food. Pollen is a microscopic dust that the bee picks up while collecting nectar. Worker Bees mix Pollen with their own enzymes, pack it into her leg pouches and carry it back to the hive. Honeybees carry out more than 80% of all plant pollination.
Royal Jelly:
Royal Jelly is 50% protein and includes amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates and trace minerals. Royal Jelly is what causes an ordinary egg to become a queen. It serves as food for all young larvae, yet it is the only food for queen larvae and makes up a large part of the adult queen bee's diet. Royal Jelly has a stimulating effect on people suffering from fatigue and/or depression.
Propolis:
Propolis is a combination of substances that is collected by the bees from tree sap, sticky grasses, and other sticky substances. Propolis is used to seal cracks and secure combs in the hive. It is also a powerful anti-biotic, causing the inside of the beehive to be one of the most sterile environments found in nature. In laboratory tests, propolis has exhibited a variety of interesting anti microbial, antiviral and anti tumor properties.
Honeybees:
If you want to raise your own bees, the store takes orders for packaged bees early in the year. Please plan to pick up your bees on site, specific pick up dates apply. Honeybee prices vary year to year. beekind honeybees come from a reliable breeder (with over thirty years experience) and all queens are of the Italian or Carniolan variety (perfect for the California North Coast Mediterranean environment. We produce our own local queens. We have a limited supply from time to time during the late spring and summer seasons. Please call the store store for availability. We do not ship bees.
Beekeeping Equipment and Supplies:
beekind carries a large selection of standard and unique beekeeping supplies, equipment and protective gear. We are proud dealers for Mann Lake, Ltd. Beekeeping Supplies and various products by other manufacturers. We also produce and sell Serge Style follower boards and feeders with cork floats, basic screened bottom boards, Country Rubes Bottom Boards, replacement sheets and entrance reducers.
Beekeeping Classes and Support:
beekind provides free introduction classes and regular hands on beekeeping classes with ongoing support to new and continuing beekeepers.