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Raw wildflower honey from clover and tupelo blooms, harvested twice a year from a family operation running hives in the Cahaba basin for three generations.
Small-batch sourwood honey from hives set along the Foothills Parkway. Sourwood season is short when it is gone it is gone until next summer. Light buttery and unmistakable.
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Robert Weeks started keeping bees because his grandfather told him he had to. Now he can't imagine doing anything else — even if the Cahaba River flooded his bottom hives for the third year running.
Natalie Chanin brought hand-sewing back to a town that forgot it ever left.
The regulars have a system. First-timers never quite catch on until it's too late for the sourdough.