Honey Farms & Apiaries near Travelers Rest, SC

Travelers Rest

The Carolina Honey Bee Company is a honey shop in Travelers Rest, just north of Greenville in the South Carolina Upstate. It sells local honey and honey-bee products from a town at the edge of the Blue Ridge foothills, an area with an active small-farm and beekeeping community.

Greenville

Hidden Spring Bee Farm keeps bees and sells local honey out of Greenville, in upstate South Carolina. Small apiaries like this usually offer raw wildflower honey by the jar and sometimes beeswax products, with harvest tied to the spring and summer nectar flow.

Pickens

Bee Well Honey runs a honey and beekeeping business out of downtown Pickens on West Main Street. Alongside local honey they sell beekeeping equipment, beeswax candles, and apparel, and the farm side adds fresh produce and a cafe. The Open Door restaurant serves farm-to-table meals on site, and the shop hosts learning for people just getting started with hives.

Hendersonville

We run 11 apiaries, bee yards, throughout Hendersonville, Flat Rock, Zirconia, Tryon, and the Asheville area. We have a total of 301 hives with plans of expanding to 1000 hives in 2019. We produce Wild Flower Honey, Sourwood Honey, Apple Blossom Honey, Cream Honey, a variety of infused honey's, and numerous other types of honey from other parts of the country for a total of 30 different types of honey. We also make lip balm, soap, candles, and facial creams from our beeswax. We also carry a full

Columbus

Wally's Pure Raw Honey sells raw, unfiltered honey from hives on Green Creek Drive in Columbus, in Polk County near the South Carolina line. It's a small beekeeping operation that markets straight to local buyers rather than through a storefront. Raw honey like this shifts in flavor by season and local bloom. Online details are limited, so ask locally to buy direct.

Lake Toxaway

Killer Bees Honey is an artisanal apiary deep in the Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina, surrounded by 512,000 farm-free acres of the Pisgah National Forest — producing raw, glyphosate-free honey with antimicrobial Total Activity rivaling Manuka. A Good Food Awards winner and the only North American producer publishing lab purity reports, it also offers beeswax candles, wraps, body care, and private honey tastings.