Meadowline ApiariesShop honey
Small-batch honey · Willamette Valley, Oregon

Single-source honey from hives you can visit.

Meadowline Apiaries keeps 320 colonies on clover, blackberry and wildflower sites across the Willamette Valley. We crush and strain in a food-grade room beside the farm store, label every jar with the hive yard and harvest week, and never blend batches to hide a weak season. Tours run on calm Saturdays; kids leave with a beeswax candle they rolled themselves.

See this season's honeyBook a hive tour

Licensed Oregon food processor #FP-8821. Sold at the farm store and 14 markets.

Beekeeper inspecting a frame of honeycomb in a sunny apiary

Season at a glance

Colonies on valley forage sites
320
Distinct floral sources we label
12
Honey bottled in 2025
4 tons
Saturday tours hosted last year
38
How we keep bees

Healthy hives, honest honey

We move bees only for pollination contracts we publish, and we leave enough honey on every colony for winter.

Purple wildflowers in a meadow near apiary forage

Forage maps on every label

Each yard is mapped with bloom windows. Clover honey lists the pasture owner; wildflower batches list the ridge elevation.

Golden honey being poured into glass jars

Gentle stock and slow extraction

We breed for calm bees, use escape boards instead of blowing, and warm honey to 95 °F max to protect enzymes.

Close-up of natural beeswax honeycomb texture

Beeswax from our cappings

Candles, lip balm and polish are made from our own cappings. No paraffin filler.

Honey extraction and processing in a stainless steel honey room

Honey room you can see

Extractors, settling tanks and jar filling happen behind glass during Saturday tours.

A valley season

What happens from snow melt to the last market booth.

  1. March

    Colonies wake on maples

    We feed lightly only if stores are thin and add supers when dandelions open.

  2. May

    Clover flow

    Hives on dairy pastures. Honey pulled mid-June, labeled with farm name.

  3. August

    Blackberry ridge

    Wild hives on BLM edges. Darker honey, limited 400 jars.

  4. October

    Winter prep

    Mite counts, insulation and inventory for holiday markets.

Farm store menu

  • Clover, 12 oz

    Light, vanilla notes. Harvest week stamped.

    $14
  • Wildflower, 12 ozLimited

    Late summer blend from ridge yards.

    $15
  • Comb honey

    Cut comb from clover supers.

    $18

Market regulars

“I can taste the blackberry batch every August. My kids check the harvest week like a game.”
T. WalshEugene farmer's market
“Tour guide let us hold a frame with gloves on. Best birthday outing we have had.”
S. ParkHive tour, May 2025
“Restaurant buys clover by the bucket because labels match our local menu story.”
L. DuarteChef, Corvallis

Reserve a hive tour

Tours run on calm Saturdays. We confirm veils and start time by email.

Honey and tours FAQ

Do you ship honey?

We ship within Oregon and Washington, glass jars double-boxed, November through April.

Is your honey raw?

Yes. Strained, never ultrafiltered, never heated above 95 °F.

What should tour guests wear?

Closed shoes and long pants. We provide veils and gloves.

Do you sell nucs?

Limited spring nuc list for pickup only. Join the email list for dates.