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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