The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is now accepting applications for its 2025 Beehive Distribution Program. The program helps Virginians assemble new beehives, and intends to increase the number of managed honeybee colonies in the Commonwealth.
“The Beehive Distribution Program provides beehives for increasing our pollinator population. Those pollinators go out to our farms, our forests, our meadows, and our wetlands, to pollinate plants and help them to reproduce, to increase the abundance of agricultural crops and to enhance the beauty, diversity, and the quality of our environment.”
State Apiarist Keith Tignor
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Those selected will receive the necessary equipment for assembling new beehives, and the recipient is responsible for assembling and occupying the hive with a colony of bees. The bee colony and equipment for management, such as personal safety or honey processing equipment, are not provided.
You can apply if you’re 18 years or older. Recipients are selected at random, and applications are open until September 10. For more information on the program, or to submit an application, click here.