What started out as a backyard hobby has grown into a passion to help increase awareness of additional pollinators, in particular the mason bee. 
It’s not about the selling of product. More, it’s about the importance to have gardeners actively raise pollinators. The mason bee is an easy start.
Four to five years from now Crown Bees will be reaching out to these successful mason bee raisers and ask them to help supply mason bees for their local commercial orchards and berry crops.
Doing the right thing, helping others succeed, and maintaining good customer service are integral to a company’s success and, ultimately, our gardening partners in North America.
Our Mission is to provide:
- “Latest thinking” advice to customers. We have contacts throughout the science and commercial mason bee industry.
- A website that is easy to read, informative, and as accurate as possible. I update things weekly!
- Field-researched and quality products with both the mason bee and consumer in mind.
- Timely reminders to our customers to help them become successful in mason bee raising.
- A great experience to our customers so that they maintain loyalty and refer their friends & family to Crown Bees.
Through maintaining a collaborative environment with other partners and competitors in the mason bee (blue orchard bee) industry, our hope is to help advance the knowledge and methods of best practice quickly.
We would like to hear your comments or questions:
Please contact us at: info@crownbees.com
| Mail to: | 14313 NE 177th Ct Woodinville, WA 98072 |
Crown bees isn’t about one person who has done it all. Rather, it has been the collaborative effort of many individuals in all the right places, and perfect timing.
- Editing - An emerging editor, Sue Dunagan, spent many long hours rewriting the entire website.
- Web design and programming – Christine Ely, service and product at a great price who cares that the customer is satisfied.
- Barb, my wife, who continues to be a pillar of support, someone who understands my passion to help others succeed, and someone who has my undying love.
- Mentors - You can’t start a company without moral support, sounding boards, wisdom from all arenas, and great criticism. Thanks to Bob Guide, James Edison, my extended family, and a host of mason bee aficionados!
- 3.5 children – Some call them “available labor” to drag into things… I, on the other hand, have been blessed with Christine, my financial consultant and her husband Tyler, the tax man; Matt, who has helped sort straws, bees, and performed a myriad of other menial tasks; and Nick, the process analyst who continually thinks processes through in ways I had missed.
- Respectfully yours,
Dave Hunter