The Bee Barn

Category: Equipment Also called: The Bee Barn (Paducah, Kentucky); The Bee Barn Beekeeping Store; Bee Barn Shop; beebarnshop.com Last checked: 2026-10-12

What it is

The Bee Barn is a first-party, family-owned beekeeping supply store in Paducah, Kentucky, with an official online shop at beebarnshop.com. Its home page calls it “Western Kentucky’s Best Beekeeping Store” and says it was “Established in 2012” to serve “beekeepers in the Ohio and Tennessee River valleys,” offering “beekeeping supplies and woodenware, honey bee nucs, package bees and queens, honey containers, protective gear, honey bee medications and mite treatments and much more.” The online catalog is organized into Bees, Accessories, Clothing, Hive Kits, Tools, Woodenware, Frames, Foundation, Mite Treatments & Medication, Nutrition & Feeders, Harvesting, Containers, Books/Education, Beeswax Products, Honey and Top Bar Hives. This listing is for the beekeeping-supply store with an official cart and on-page prices, not a club and not a course.

Who it’s for

Hobbyist and commercial beekeepers in Western Kentucky and the Ohio and Tennessee River valleys (the home page says it serves “Hobbyist and Commercial Beekeepers”). The store invites customers to “visit during normal business hours or by appointment.” Not a membership club and not a university program.

Why it’s listed

This is a first-party Equipment operation. It runs an official online catalog with add-to-cart pages and on-page dollar prices, prints a Paducah street address, phone and store hours, and shows current activity: a © 2026 footer, a fall varroa-treatment banner (“Get ready for Winter with Varroa Treatments”) and 2026 bee listings. It is not a scraped directory card, not Amazon, and not an affiliate storefront.

• Identity / contact (home page — checked 2026-10-12): The Bee Barn, 4445 Clinton Road, Paducah, Kentucky 42001. Phone (270) 519-4772; email [email protected].
• Hours (home page — checked 2026-10-12): “We are on our Fall and Winter store hours of 9 am to 3 pm Tuesday through Friday and Saturday 9 am till Noon.” Visits are also offered by appointment.
• History (home page): established 2012; family owned.
• Sample printed catalog prices (official Woodenware and Hive Kits category pages — checked 2026-10-12): Deep Hive Body $23.99; Medium Honey Super $21.99; Shallow Honey Super $21.99; Telescoping Top $36.95; Notched Inner Cover $16.95; Solid Bottom Board $29.95; IPM Screened Bottom Board $29.95; Metal Queen Excluder $12.99; Nuc Hive Body $21.95; 5 Frame Standard Nuc Kit $69.95; Woodenware Starter Kit from $119.95 (sale; listed from $135.00); Pine Double Deep Hive Kit from $168.95 (sale); Traditional Hive Kit from $259.95 (sale). Several items show “More options,” so the price shown is the starting option.
• Mite treatments and feed (official All Products page — checked 2026-10-12): Apivar 2.0 – 4 Strip Pack $24.95; VarroxSan 20 Strip Pack $39.99; Norroa – 2 Dose Pack $22.00; Formic Pro 30 Dose Pack $164.99; HiveAlive Fondant Patty $13.95 (sale). The Beetle Barn – 5 pack ($6.99) was out of stock on the check date.
• Bees (official Bees category page — checked 2026-10-12): 2026 listings for package bees with marked queen ($150.00), a mated Italian queen ($39.95) and a five-frame nuc ($200.00) were all out of stock on the check date; no 2027 bee dates were posted.

Stock, prices and hours above are what the official pages showed on the check date. They can change. Use the live product page or call the store before treating any figure as fixed.

Official URL

Official site: https://beebarnshop.com/

Shop: https://beebarnshop.com/shop

All products: https://beebarnshop.com/shop/ols/all

Woodenware: https://beebarnshop.com/shop/ols/categories/woodenware

Hive Kits: https://beebarnshop.com/shop/ols/categories/hive-kits

Mite Treatments & Medication: https://beebarnshop.com/shop/ols/categories/mite-treatments—medication

Bees: https://beebarnshop.com/shop/ols/categories/bees

Location

Store address printed on the official home page (checked 2026-10-12): 4445 Clinton Road, Paducah, Kentucky 42001. Phone (270) 519-4772. Fall and winter hours: Tuesday–Friday 9 AM–3 PM, Saturday 9 AM–noon. Confirm before you drive out.

This is a retail supply store identity. Do not treat it as a club meeting hall or a university classroom.

Notes

• Category is Equipment. The Bee Barn is a first-party Kentucky beekeeping-supply store with an official online cart and citeable woodenware, hive-kit and treatment prices. It is the first Kentucky listing in the directory and is distinct from the Equipment shops already listed.
• Shipping: the pages checked do not print a shipping policy, shipping rates or a return policy. Call the store before ordering anything for delivery.
• The home page also sells the store’s own honey and beeswax products and promotes a text club discount; those offers are not repeated here.
• Prices, hours and the Paducah address are copied from official beebarnshop.com pages checked on 2026-10-12 and may change. No purchase was made from Beekeeping Plaza.
• First-party logo saved beside this listing as the-bee-barn.jpg (the site’s logo AI Logo 09102026.jpg, unedited 982×334 original).
• Not affiliated with Beekeeping Plaza.
• No Beekeeping Plaza contact, purchase, booking, or publication action was taken.

FAQ

Q: Where is The Bee Barn, and when is it open?
A: The official home page (checked 2026-10-12) gives 4445 Clinton Road, Paducah, Kentucky 42001, phone (270) 519-4772, email [email protected]. Fall and winter hours are Tuesday–Friday 9 AM–3 PM and Saturday 9 AM–noon, or by appointment.

Q: What does basic hive woodenware cost?
A: Official category pages (checked 2026-10-12) list a deep hive body at $23.99, a medium or shallow honey super at $21.99, a telescoping top at $36.95, a notched inner cover at $16.95 and a solid bottom board at $29.95. Confirm the live SKU and option.

Q: Does The Bee Barn sell bees?
A: It lists package bees, mated queens and nucs in season. The 2026 listings were out of stock on 2026-10-12, and no 2027 bee dates were posted.

Q: Does The Bee Barn ship?
A: The pages checked do not state a shipping policy. Call the store before ordering for delivery.

Q: Is The Bee Barn a club or a class?
A: No. It is listed here as Equipment, a first-party supply store with an official shop URL. For clubs, see Local clubs (e.g. Treasure Valley Beekeepers Club). For structured training, see Learning (e.g. the Low Country Beekeepers Association’s Beginner Beekeepers Class ’27).