Fresh Labels for Fresh Honey!
I tapped the Flow Hives and was able to package this liquid gold in bottes, and added new labels. I'm proud to offer this honey from my Promised Land to you.
You can pick up a bottle (or a couple bottles) from the honor boxes. Or contact me here and I can ship it to you for a $10 postage fee.
Fresh, local honey is not only a sweet and healthy supplement to your diet, but has medicinal benefits as well. From helping with seasonal allergies to soothing cuts and burns.
We have a new Honor box!
Keith with the New Honor Box
We are blessed with friends and neighbors in the area. My #1 salesman, Keith Nixon, allowed me to put an honor box in his front yard.
706 Long Avenue - Port St Joe, FL 32456
Stop by and sai hi! Pick up some Authentic Tupelo Honey or some of our Hot Honey. You may also find some Blackberry Honey, books, and baby bears.
The honor box has everything to fulfill your honey needs!
Visit Our Honor Boxes!
Overstreet, Mexico Beach, and Port St Joe, Florida
We now have 4 Honor Boxes to get your Authentic Tupelo Honey. The first one is located near the hives at the Red Barn. The address is:
301 S Canal Dr
Overstreet, FL 32456.
This is where it all began, the bees are here, dad is here, and when I'm in the country, I'm here.
across from Drift Wood Inn
2104 Hwy 98, Mexico Beach, FL.32410 (corner 21 st street & Hwy 98)
Port St Joe
523 4th Street, PSJ, FL. 32456 - Just a couple blocks off Reid Avenue
706 Long Avenue, PSJ, FL 32456
I invite you to stop by for a visit, and pick up some Authentic Tupelo, Wildflower honey, Hot honey, and more. My books 'Hurricane Honey, a Survivor's Story' and 'Promised Land Honey' can also be found in the Honor Box.
Anything you need can be found in these great boxes.
Honor Box in Overstreet, FL
Mexico Beach Box
We now have a third location!
My good friends from the Driftwood Inn asked I place an honor box across from their site. They may just want Tupelo and Wildflower honey at their fingertips, but I'm okay with that!
You are welcome to pull up, pick your favorite honey and leave the payment in the top slot. The book 'Hurricane Honey, a Survivor's Story' is also in the box, and I encourage you to buy and read it.
An Introduction to Tupelo Honey
Tupelo trees are a unique specimen of trees that are only found in very few places in the world. We are lucky enough to live near the Apalachicola River Basin, one of the places where Tupelo trees can be found.
These trees thrive in swampy, marsh environments. It's challenging to establish beehives here since there is very little solid land around the trees, so bee keepers in this area set-up hives on barges and float them near the Tupelo trees.
As you can tell, Tupelo Honey is quite extraordinary.
Tupelo trees are a unique specimen of trees that are only found in very few places in the world. We are lucky enough to live near the Apalachicola River Basin, one of the places where Tupelo trees can be found.
These trees thrive in swampy, marsh environments. It's challenging to establish beehives here since there is very little solid land around the trees, so bee keepers in this area set-up hives on barges and float them near the Tupelo trees.
As you can tell, Tupelo Honey is quite extraordinary.
Singing the Praises of Tupelo Honey
One important distinguishing feature of Tupelo honey is that it will never crystallize. This means it will keep pretty much forever. But we are sure that once you taste this sweet, liquid gold, that your jar will not last very long.
In fact, Van Morrison sang the praises of this food in his song "Tupelo Honey." The lyrics say, 'She's as sweet as Tupelo Honey.'
They also filmed a movie in this area called "Ulee's Gold," starring Peter Fonda as a Tupelo Honey beekeeper in the nearby town of Wewahitchka (or simply Wewa).
There is Even a Book - Actually there are now 2 books!
I sell my honey at the local Port St Joe farmers market on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays
Everybody was intrigued by the story of how my bees not only survived Hurricane Michael but thrived and produced honey. I've retold the story so many times that I finally wrote a book to tell of how I became a beekeeper, and how my bees survived the hurricane.
How I Got Started
From the beginning, Buddy prayed to the Holy Spirit about what to do; the answer he received was 'Start Here.' So, on his Promise Land (which his dad gave to him in 2009), he has a Holy Spirit red barn, some rocking chairs on the front porch, a bird house for purple martins... and 3 beehives. In a short period of time, he built up a collection of bee suits and equipment to manage the production of honey.
The fantastic little creatures survived one of the worst hurricanes to hit the Florida Panhandle. On October 10, 2018, Hurricane Michael roared ashore in Mexico Beach as a category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 160mph and gusts up to 200mph.
But they survived, Buddy and the bees.
The privacy fence fell on the beehives, and Buddy believes that is what saved them. He set the hives back together, wished them well, and went about cleaning the debris from the yard, house, and neighborhood.
It turns out, he had to feed the bees for several months to help them along (as I new beekeeper, he had no idea that he would have to do this). The hurricane stripped all leaves and blossoms from the trees and bushes, leaving the bees without food. When the bee inspector arrived 4 months after the hurricane, and the hives had mites.
So if the hurricane didn't kill the bees, the mites might.
Despite all of this, in the end of May 2019... the bees produced their first batch of honey! This is why Buddy named that batch 'Hurricane Michael Ground Zero Survivor Honey.
Buddy and the damaged hives after Hurricane Michael