![]() Super sweet Orange Blossom is another favorite while Spanish-born Lavender and Rosemary offer a more subtle sweetness. The newly bottled Palmetto has similar healing powers as manuka honey but tastes much better while Black Sage is a hard-to-get variety that is back on the menu after a six-year absence. Guests are treated to samples of the artisanal honeys served on an eco-friendly spoon.Ĭurrently on tap are the popular Tupelo and deeply flavorful Sourwood, as well as the lighter Acacia and the "Georgia in a jar" Wildflower. The store is designed to be an immersive experience in the secret life of bees starting with the Honey Bar. A display featuring the artisanal honey is lit from within to give the honey a golden glow. With 3,000 square feet of space, the Atlanta store is the largest to-date offering customers access to the full range of Savannah Bee Company products. Instead of "barnyard chic" the new boutiques are more "modern farmhouse," said Rob Kemp, Senior Director of Retail Operation and Store Design.Įlements such as bee smokers, renderings of hives and the menu behind the Honey Bar made of brown craft paper are reminiscent of a general store, but presented in an artful way. While the earlier stores were more rustic, the Atlanta location (and the recently opened store in Westport, Conn.) offers the same education and experiences in a more refined setting. The Westside Provisions District location is the ninth branded store and one of the first to feature the company's new retail concept. The business evolved into Savannah Bee Company which has grown to include a full range of products from the signature varieties of raw honey to a growing collection of personal care products. My goal was always to elevate honey," said Dennard, who began selling his tupelo honey in 1999 at a friend's store. While Dennard notes how far the local industry as come - with due credit given to Savannah Bee Company - he believes it is time to take things up a notch. "In the beginning, we did what we could to. Georgia has ranked among the top 10 honey producing states in 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2016 according to data from Department Of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service Annual Honey Report. The honey industry has grown quite a bit since Dennard formally launched his company in 2002. In 2016, Americans consumed more honey than ever, but only 29 percent of it came from the U.S. If you haven't checked out Ted's honey, you better do so, soon.Here's Dennard's recent Ted Talk about bees and honey: This is someone who is just as passionate as I am, as we are, about what he does. My hand was full of bees! They tickled, and most of them flew off in a matter of minutes, but I had several stay, walking around my hand and arms, doing their special wiggle dance. ![]() ![]() Then, carefully, he gathered a huge bunch of bees in his hands and passed them onto each of us. He pulled a honeycomb out of the hive, grabbed our fingers, and stuck them into this sunshine-y warm honey, and we tasted it straight from the comb to our mouths. First he advised us to stay calm, walk slowly and think happy thoughts. We dipped our fingers in the vats of honey (it's a natural antibacterial). We saw barrels and barrels of nature's liquid gold, some from single sources (my favorite is the tupelo), others from various plants. We stopped in at their world headquarters on Wilmington Island, outside of Savannah, and Ted Dennard took us around the site. This too-short trip has me running around all over the South, and earlier this week I had the amazing opportunity to visit the coolest honey harvesters ever, the folks at Savannah Bee Company.
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