W

hile we could easily relegate it to a role as 

a simple sweetener, there’s a far greater 

complexity to the thick liquid gold that 

glistens from so many little bear-shaped 

bottles found in the pantries of home kitchens all across the 

country. And as its long use in health remedies and beauty 

treatments for thousands of years handily proves, that 

golden color could well be considered significant, so highly 

is it sought as a foundational component for cleaner and 

healthier living. 

“As something that is truly organic and has been provided 

to us by nature, honey benefits us in many different ways,” 

says Amy Wright, founder and owner of The Honey Hutch, 

a third-generation beekeeper whose passion for bees first 

took flight at the age of nine. “It has naturally anti-bacterial 

properties and is anti-fungal; is a known preventative for 

cancer and heart disease; has been shown to increase athletic 

performance; helps soothe throat irritation; helps heal cuts, 

scrapes, and burns; is a natural probiotic; is great for local 

allergies; and is great for the skin,” she enumerates, though 

she could certainly rattle off more, given the time. 

Such benefits are the very basis of her business at 

The Honey Hutch, giving rise to products including 

soaps, lotions, candles, lip-balms, and—of course—the 

honey itself, which she bottles at her very own “hive” in 

Santa Rosa Beach. Using the nectar of flowers including 

wildflowers, gallberry plants, orange blossoms, and white 

tupelos, the honeys harvested at The Honey Hutch are kept 

pure and raw rather than being heated at a high temperature 

or filtered to “refine” them. Such purity preserves their 

integrity and maintains the height of their benefits instead 

of stripping away the very things that make them so buzz 

worthy.      

Having officially launched in the summer of 2013, The 

Honey Hutch is pollenating its way across the Emerald 

Coast and beyond, gracing the pages of O Magazine as one 

of Oprah’s Favorite Things and sweetening up the lives of 

people across the nation through its online marketplace. 

But home-based consumers aren’t the only ones loving 

what Wright is selling, and she’s become the local “honey” 

of such restaurants and bars as Another Broken Egg Cafe, 

Amavida Coffee & Tea, Beach Walk Cafe, Black Bear 

Bread Company, Big Bad Breakfast, Boshamps, Brotulas, 

Camille’s, Craft Bar, Cuvee, Destin Brewery, Donut Hole, 

Emeril’s, Everkrisp, Jackacuda’s, La Paz, Marlin Grill, 

Sunset Bay 

Cafe, and The 

Pearl to sweeten 

up their dishes 

and signature 

cocktails.  

Such high 

demand naturally 

requires a 

high level of 

productivity, 

and her winged 

wonders have 

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