Virginia residents can apply for free beekeeping equipment

What’s all the buzz? The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is accepting applications for the 2024 Beehive Distribution Program.

The program provides free equipment for assembling new beehives to Virginia residents ages 18 and up. Recipients will be selected at random from qualifying applications submitted by Sept. 6.

Businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies are not eligible to receive beehive units. Multiple individuals in a household with the same mailing address may apply to the program.

Recipients of beehive units must assemble the equipment and occupy it with a colony of honeybees within one year of receiving the equipment.

To learn more and apply, visit vdacs.virginia.gov/plant-industry-services-beehive-distribution-program.shtml.