Ben Brown honey is back!

Chestnut Hill local Ben Brown has been keeping bees since he was a teenager. After taking a hiatus as an adult, he bought his wife a beehive as a birthday gift for the garden she designed for them. Like “giving a puppy to a couple of 9-year-olds,” they fell in love with beekeeping again. And when Weavers Way Chestnut Hill opened, Ben got the idea to start selling his honey, produced just a couple of blocks away. With his small colony, he can only provide limited runs of honey. Get over to the Chestnut Hill store or the Farm Market at Henry Got Crops Farm and get one of the 200 jars available! (And don’t forget to bring back your jar! Ben sanitizes and reuses them to keep down costs and waste.)

No Saul Honey this year

We know everyone was excited to see the honey from the Saul High School beehives on the store shelves last fall. Beekeepers don’t extract all the honey in the hive, leaving enough for the bees to feed off in the winter. Unfortunately, the bees at Saul had a rough summer, and beekeeper David Harrod felt it was best to leave all the honey to the bees to keep the colony safe and healthy. We’ll try again next summer!