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The Garden

HONEY

When you taste the amber-hued honey produced by our honey bees, you’ll experience flavorful notes of tulip poplars, wildflowers and sourwood. The honey’s flavor is derived from our region’s native flora. Our honey is unique to East Tennessee and comes from the Farm’s hives and hives throughout Blount County. The bees on our property enjoy the native plants grown by our Garden team, and they also buzz about the property feeding on a variety of plants in our pastures. The abundance of diverse plants on the Farm results in well-fed honey bees that produce much of the delicate, flavorful honey used by our chefs and available for purchase from the Farmstead.

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Pollinator Wall

Alongside the honey bees in our Garden, you’ll find other small bees and pollinators living in our pollinator wall. Members of our Garden team developed the idea for the pollinator wall in 2021 after brainstorming a project for the Winter season. This artfully crafted structure is packed with material and native plants that provide a safe home for the small bees and pollinators that enjoy living in the snug cavities of sticks and under leaves. The insects that live in the pollinator wall are valuable residents of the Garden and do most of the pollinating.