Honey
Raw wildflower, 8 oz
$12
Unfiltered, never heated past hive temperature. Crystallizes by February — that is the point.
Add to the order →Fernhollow Apiary · Asheville, North Carolina
Honey from our hives, poured by hand in Asheville
Raw wildflower honey and hand-poured beeswax candles from one beekeeper's 40 hives — plus a spring beginner hive kit that comes with an actual class from the person who keeps them.
One beekeeper. Forty hives. No middleman.
Fernhollow is a solo operation outside Asheville. Every jar is filled from hives I inspect myself, and every candle is poured on my kitchen table. If you email, I'm the one who answers.
- 40hives
Three yards within twenty minutes of the house — ridge, creek bottom, and an old orchard.
- 3harvests a year
Spring tulip poplar, summer wildflower, and a small sourwood pull when the weather allows.
- 1pair of hands
I inspect, extract, bottle, pour, label, and answer the email. There is nobody else.
- 52Saturdays
The Fernhollow table is at the Asheville City Market most weeks, rain or shine, 8am to noon.
Three things, made properly
Whether you're buying a jar for your own counter, a gift that smells like a beeyard in August, or your first hive — each path is its own small shop.
Honey
Raw wildflower, 1 lb
$20
The jar most people come back for. Dark summer pull, cut comb available while it lasts.
Add to the order →Candles
Hand-poured beeswax pair
$18
Wax from my own cappings, cotton wick, poured on the kitchen table. Smells like a beeyard in August.
Add to the order →Hive kits
Beginner hive kit + class
$340
Assembled here, handed over in person, and it includes an hour with me before your first season.
Add to the order →The Fernhollow year — get the note before things sell out
Everything here runs on the bees' calendar, not a marketing one. Three or four emails a year, written by me, telling you when honey is coming off and when the kit window opens.
January – March
Hive kit window
Pre-orders open, roughly 25 kits. Class dates get scheduled. When March ends, the window closes.
May – June
Spring honey comes off
Tulip poplar — light, fast, and gone quickly. The first email of the year goes out the night before bottling.
August – September
Summer wildflower pull
The dark jar. Biggest harvest of the year, and the one that carries the pantry through winter.
November – December
Candle season
Cappings rendered, tapers and votives poured in batches. Gift orders close when the wax runs out.
Buy online, collect Saturday at the Asheville City Market
Order a jar or a candle from the shop, choose market pickup, and I'll set it aside with your name on it. Come find the Fernhollow table on Saturday, say hello, and take it home — no shipping box, no shipping cost.
- 01
Order any day
Add honey or candles to the cart from the pantry page. No minimum, no account needed.
- 02
Choose market pickup
Select it at checkout instead of shipping. Shipping cost drops off the total immediately.
- 03
I set it aside Friday
Your name goes on a paper bag the night before, and you get a short email confirming it is packed.
- 04
Saturday, 8am – noon
Find the Fernhollow table at the Asheville City Market. Say hello, take your bag, ask me anything.
Pre-order window
The beginner hive kit: ~25 a year, pre-order January–March
This isn't a boxed kit shipped from a warehouse. It's assembled here, handed to you in person, and it includes an hour of my time so you don't start your first season guessing. When the window closes in March, it closes — join the waitlist and I'll email you the day it reopens.
Honey, candles, and one hive kit window a year
Shop the pantry for raw wildflower honey and hand-poured beeswax candles with Saturday pickup at the Asheville City Market — or join the waitlist for the next beginner hive kit pre-order. Either way, you're emailing an actual beekeeper.