Pure Puget Sound Perfection

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Rainy Day Bees is as Seattle as it gets. The team manages hives across the Puget Sound in King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Whatcom counties with many of them tucked into backyards, school gardens, and neighborhood green spaces. They also partner with residents who host hives, creating small pockets of pollination all over the region. This is a hyperlocal network built on care, curiosity, and a shared love of the Pacific Northwest landscape.   You can find Rainy Day Bees most weekends at local farmers markets around Seattle and Tacoma, their jars lined up like amber glass catching the morning light. They’ll usually have tasting samples, and you can talk directly with the beekeepers about which neighborhood or hillside the honey came from. Each jar lists the exact county and floral source; blackberry, fireweed, wildflower and every batch reflects the changing rhythm of Northwest seasons.

Their Pure Puget Sound Creamed Honey starts as raw local honey, unfiltered and unpasteurized. It’s then carefully creamed — meaning it’s crystallized under controlled conditions to create that signature texture: smooth, spreadable, and endlessly scoopable. The result is something you want to keep on the counter, not the pantry shelf. It’s rich but clean, sweet without being sticky, and as versatile as butter.

There’s a genuine pride in this honey. You can taste it in the work they do by keeping bees not just for honey but for pollination, education, and ecological stewardship. Rainy Day Bees hosts workshops, community events, and even hive-hosting programs where locals can “adopt” hives for their own yards. The company is small, transparent, and rooted in place in a way that feels increasingly rare. 

We’ve tried this honey every which way: drizzled over fruit, stirred into coffee, spread on toast, eaten straight from the spoon. The texture alone makes it addictive — no crystals, no grit, just a steady, creamy consistency that feels handcrafted because it is. It’s honey that tells you exactly where it’s from, and you can feel that sense of place in every jar. 

Rainy Day Bees’ Pure Puget Sound Creamed Honey isn’t trying to reinvent anything. It’s just doing something simple, perfectly, and close to home. The kind of product that makes you grateful for thoughtful operations that care about how things are made. 

It’s so good, we’re ordering a shipment for our holiday client gifts, sourced from the Ballard area where our office is — because sharing something this local, this pure, feels like the most Seattle thing we could share.