Grown Here
Produced by our bees from the fields, gardens, and wild spaces around our local communities.
Our Honey
Know where your honey comes from.
Honey changes with the land and the season. Ours begins in the fields, gardens, pastures, and wild spaces around our local communities.
There’s no anonymous supply chain and no mystery blend. We tend the bees, pull the honey, bottle the harvest, and put our name on every jar. From our hives to your table.
More about our honey →Traceable
Our bees. Our hives. Our harvest. You know exactly who produced the honey in your jar.
Quality First
From how we keep our bees to how we bottle each harvest, we care about doing things well.
Our Bees
Bees Worth Keeping.
At Old Soul, we’re working toward an apiary where strong colonies earn their place in the next generation.
We pay close attention to the traits that matter: health, productivity, temperament, overwintering ability, and natural resistance to the pressures honey bees face.
Colonies that demonstrate those traits become the foundation for the bees we raise tomorrow. It’s a long-term approach built around observation, selection, and continually improving the stock in our own apiary.
We don’t just want more bees. We want better bees.
Our Story
It started with a garden. Then the bees took over.
I got into beekeeping for a pretty simple reason: I wanted better pollination in my garden. It worked a little too well. These days I barely garden anymore because the bees have a way of taking over your time.
The name Old Soul started as a family joke. I’m apparently the oldest 30-year-old they know, and taking up beekeeping wasn’t exactly helping my case. Somewhere along the way, the joke stopped feeling like a joke and started feeling like the right name for what we were building.
Old Soul stands for a quality product with a clear sense of place — honey from the fields and neighborhoods around us, made by our bees and sold by the people who keep them.
Read our story →Find Us
Find Old Soul in your neighborhood.
Starting in summer 2027, we’ll be bringing Old Soul honey directly to local farmers markets. Confirmed dates, market locations, and pickup details will be posted here as the season gets closer.
Summer 2027 • Market schedule coming soon
Find Old Soul
Stay in the loop
Know when the first jars are ready.
Harvest dates, farmers market locations, limited batches, and the occasional bit of news from the apiary. No nonsense.
Our Story
It started with one hive.
A garden, one colony, and a hobby that very quickly became something more.
One colony in 2024.
Old Soul started with one colony in 2024. I got into beekeeping for a pretty simple reason: I wanted better pollination in the garden. I figured a hive would help the plants, I’d learn something new, and that would probably be the extent of it.
That didn’t last long.
By the winter of 2025, I realized I hadn’t spent much time thinking about what I wanted to plant the following spring. Instead, I was thinking about bees — how they were doing, what I wanted to change, what I wanted to learn, and what the next season might look like.
At some point, the bees had become the thing.
Why Old Soul?
The name started as a family joke.
Apparently, I’m the oldest 30-year-old they know, and getting increasingly obsessed with beekeeping wasn’t exactly helping my case.
But the more I thought about it, the more the name fit. Old Soul reflects the kind of company we want to build: grounded, straightforward, patient, and focused on doing things well instead of doing them fast.
Honey with a place behind it.
I’ve never wanted Old Soul to become a honey-packing company.
I don’t want to buy anonymous honey from somewhere else, put our label on the jar, and call it ours. I want to know the bees, the apiaries, and the places behind the honey we sell.
Our goal is simple: produce quality honey from colonies we actually keep, gathered from the fields, gardens, and wild spaces nearby, and bring it directly to the people around us.
No mystery blend. No anonymous supply chain. Just honey with a place behind it.
Building better bees.
The long-term vision for Old Soul goes beyond honey.
I want Old Soul to be known for healthy, resilient bees that can perform year after year. We pay attention to the traits that matter — health, productivity, temperament, overwintering ability, and resistance to the pressures honey bees face.
Colonies that prove themselves become the foundation for what comes next. It’s a long-term project, and we’re still building it.
We don’t just want more bees. We want better bees.
Something we’re building together.
Old Soul started with my interest in bees, but it’s become something our family is building together.
My wife is a big part of it, and our kids already love spending time with us in the bee yard. As they get older, I’m sure they’ll become more involved too.
I like the idea of building something together — something made carefully, connected to the place we live, and maybe someday something our kids will help carry forward.
Good honey comes from places that still feel like home.
Our Honey
One harvest. Different every year.
Western Washington honey follows the season, and every season leaves its own mark in the jar.
The Harvest
Summer sets the flavor.
In Western Washington, we usually get one main honey harvest in mid to late summer, after the blackberries have finished blooming.
The character of that harvest is shaped by whatever was blooming well that year. Some years, fireweed contributes heavily. Other years, it doesn’t. Weather, timing, and available nectar sources all leave their mark.
That’s part of what we like about it. Honey shouldn’t have to taste exactly the same every year. It reflects the place and the season it came from.
Blackberry & Wildflower
Built around what blooms nearby.
Most Old Soul honey will be a blackberry and wildflower blend produced by colonies kept in the Wabash and Auburn–Black Diamond areas.
Blackberry is one of the dominant summer nectar sources here, but the final flavor is influenced by everything else blooming within reach of the bees.
The result is honey that is distinctly local and naturally changes from one harvest to the next.
Kept Simple
Very little happens between hive and jar.
We don’t do much to our honey after it leaves the hive — and that’s intentional.
Our honey is extracted in a warm room, passed through a stainless-steel screen to remove larger bits of wax and hive debris, and bottled.
It is never heated and never filtered.
We want the honey in the jar to stay as close as possible to the way the bees made it.
Available Sizes
From a small jar to a serious honey habit.
Old Soul honey is planned in five sizes, with availability depending on the season and harvest.
8 oz12 oz1 lb2 lb5 lb
Find Us
Local honey, close by.
Old Soul is being built around direct relationships with the communities around us.
Our Area
Serving the communities around us.
EnumclawBuckleyBlack DiamondMaple Valley
Starting in summer 2027, you’ll be able to find Old Soul honey at local farmers markets throughout the area.
Confirmed market dates and locations will be posted here once the season gets closer.
Summer 2027 • Schedule coming soon
Farmers Markets
Market dates and locations will be posted here as they’re confirmed for the 2027 season.
Local Pickup
Order-ahead pickup is planned for local customers. Exact pickup details will be added closer to launch.
Direct From Us
No distributor between you and the beekeeper.
For now, Old Soul is staying direct-to-customer.
When you buy a jar, you’re buying it from the people who keep the bees and harvest the honey. No distributor. No reseller. Just Old Soul.
Contact
Talk to Old Soul.
Questions about honey, local pickup, farmers markets, or anything else? Reach out.
We’d be glad to hear from you.
Until the full contact form is connected, email is the easiest way to get in touch.
Email Old Soul
nick@oldsoulhoney.comWe’ll add a proper contact form before the site goes live.
Send an EmailStay in the loop
Know when the first jars are ready.
Harvest dates, farmers market locations, limited batches, and the occasional bit of news from the apiary. No nonsense.