A Guide to Local Foods, Farmers' Markets, and Community Gardens
Laramie County
Prairie Wind Bee Supply
Sells live honeybees to beekeepers, including nucleus colonies (also called ‘nucs’ or ‘splits’) and mated queens (options include Carniolan, Italian, and Russian); also offers hives, hive components, and other materials.
Where to buy:
contact by email, or order through the website or Facebook
Prairie Wind Bee Supply owner Paul Anderson transfers a colony of bees into a full-sized hive that becomes their permanent home, a procedure he calls “hiving a nuc” (photo by Heather L. Nykun).
Worker bees store nectar in open cells to make honey at a beeyard operated by Prairie Wind Bee Supply owner Paul Anderson (photo by Heather L. Nykun).