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Help Is On It's WayMENTORS
Mentors are here to help and guide members of the Cowichan Beekeepers when they have an issue.
Gordon MacKay
Contact by email: gordon_mackay@yahoo.com
Member of: Cowichan Beekeepers Society.
Location: Duncan, BC
Marie Cairns
Contact by email: 5354cairns@gmail.com
Keeping bees since 2016.
Currently Vice-president of the Cowichan Beekeepers Society
Member of the B.C. Honey Producers Association.
Location: Cowichan Station, BC
Ted Leischner
Keeping bees since 1973
Contact by phone: (250) 510-4490
Member of the Cowichan Beekeepers Society
Location: Duncan, BC
Swarm Catchers
Curtis Robinson
250-686-1540
Cowichan Valley, Chemainus, Crofton, Duncan
Paul Petersen
250-732-0197 or redqueenapiaries@yahoo.ca
Duncan, Cowichan Bay, Mill Bay and Cobble Hill
Chelsea Abbott
1-250-715-8106 or lenorabee@gmail.com
Duncan, Cowichan Bay, Mill Bay and Cobble Hill
Jacques Marc
250-746-4520
Cowichan Valley, Duncan
John Magdanz
250-510-4413
North Cowichan, Duncan
Danielle Winter
250-701-5075
Honey Vendors
Hardie Honey – Duncan 250-746-4389
Happylow Apiary – Ian Low – Mill Bay 250-743-3628 – bees@happylow.net
Jacques Marc – Duncan 250-746-4520
Pat & Jim Peach – Duncan 250-709-7339
Pattie Whitehouse – Metchosin 250-478-3319
Winter Acres Apiary – Danielle Winter – 250 701-5075 – winteracresapiary@gmail.com
Tie Fraser – Mesachie Lake 250-932-1110 – Chapelwood Cottage Apiaries
Suppliers
Alba Plants
Producer of Nucs and Queens (Cowichan Valley raised stock)
Gordon Mackay
250-746-1555
gordon_mackay@yahoo.com
Cowichan Valley Bees and Supplies Ltd – Special Discount for CB Members
Retailer of Nucs, Woodware, Frames, Foundation, Feeders, Apparel, Tools and Meds
Pat & Jim Peach
5735 Menzies Road, (Sahtlam) Duncan, BC V9L 6G7
250-709-7339 and 250-746-5601
info@cowichan-bees.com
Happylow Apiary
BC Bee Breeder – Vancouver Island stock Local Nucs & Queens (no imports)
Ian Low
1-250-709-1661
bees@happylow.net
Location – Mill Bay, BC
Lenora Bee Apiary
Producer of Nucs and Queens
Chelsea Abbott
1-250-715-8106
lenorabee@gmail.com
Winter Acres Apiary
Producer of Queens
Danielle Winter
1-250-701-5075
Suppliers
Many Hands Farm
Producer of Nucs and Queens
Curtis Robinson
250-686-1540
curtis@visionstudios.ca
Ted Leischner
Keeping bees since 1973
Contact by phone: (250) 510-4490
Member of the Cowichan Beekeepers Society
Location: Duncan, BC
Red Queen Apiaries
Producer of Nucs and Queens
Paul Petersen
Location – Mill Bay, BC
redqueenapiaries@yahoo.ca
Rod & Jo Moody Apiaries
Producer of Packages of Bees and Queens
Rod & Jo Moody
1575 Robson Lane RR#1 Cowichan Bay BC V0R 1N1
250-743-1939
rodjo@telus.net
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