The Buzz

In May 2011, we installed a four-hive, 120,000 honeybee apiary, located on the hillside overlooking the hotel and Snoqualmie Falls. We anticipate that our hives will yield between 650 and 800 pounds of a light, classic honey to be collected and integrated throughout the Lodge in 2012. Whether enjoying indigenous Northwest cuisine infused with honey in The Dining Room, our signature Honey from Heaven service that comes with our famous Country Breakfast, or being pampered in The Spa with honey-based treatments, you can expect to find sweet treats created with our unique, organic, artisan honey around every corner. It doesn’t get more local or sustainable than this!

Beekeeper Daniel Sullivan, proprietor of Shipwreck Honey in West Seattle, is our apiary expert and has guided us through a fun first year of beekeeping. We had been searching for the perfect opportunity and partnership to bring honeybees to Salish for a long time, and when we met Daniel and learned about the passion and care that goes into his work, we knew it was a match made in honey heaven! The busy colonies have spent the months following the installation building honeycomb, nurturing their brood in various stages of development, collecting pollen and producing enough honey to sustain the colony through the winter.

As our honeybees keep producing the sweet sticky stuff, we’ll keep you up to date on the latest honey-based offerings around the lodge.