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Bryan's Bees is a beekeeping company in California and Washington.  We originated in Ventura County, California in 2012 with our first five packages of bees and the dream of becoming commercial beekeepers.  Unfortunately we quickly  found that commercial beekeeping is more of a labor of love, so most of our business currently revolves around live bee rescue.  We then use rescued hives to nourish and grow our beekeeping operation.

When the business was young, Bryan worked the bees part time while he worked in the pest control industry.  There he was forced to spray hives time and time again, while he felt like there must be a better way.  Now we are proud to say that we rescue hundreds of hives every year while remaining entirely pesticide free.  The rescued hives are then carefully cared for in our apiary, and are used to pollinate crops and make honey across the entire west coast including Ventura County, Los Angeles County, Kern County, Santa Barbara County, Portland, Seattle, and Lewis County, WA.

In 2012 Bryan got his first five packages of bees, and with a lot of hard work, and the help of several mentors we have grown those five packages into a 160 hive operation in five counties, but it wasn't always this way.  

In 2013 we found a local beekeeper to mentor us, and that is when we discovered how migratory beekeeping is.  Our local Ventura County bees were taken to almond pollination in Kern County, back to Avocadoes in Ventura County, then out of state to make honey during the hot Southern California dearth, and ultimately back to Ventura County to overwinter.

Due to how migratory the business is we realized how important it would be to grow the business in all these areas.  We began working with local beekeepers and universities to make as many partners in these areas as we could.  In 2017 we opened up our Bakersfield and LA branches around our Almond pollination and overwintering grounds.  Then in 2019 we opened our Seattle and Portland bee rescue routes around our new apple pollination and summer honey grounds.

Lyndsay is the Office Manager for Bryan's Bees. She has been working with Bryan since they met at California State University Channel Islands their freshman year.  She has a BA in Performing Arts and has worked with children, professionally, in several capacities in the past.  Because of this, she not only runs the office, but is also in charge of our education outreach and volunteer events. Lyndsay is the office manager for our sister company, Bee Merry Christmas Lights as well.