It was a pleasure hosting our friends from Whole Foods Market and the Portsmouth Herald.   We provided a tour of the SeaBee Honey House and one of our apiaries in Rye, NH.  We also made the front page of the paper. Thanks everyone!
​@wholefoods @seabeehoney @portsmouthherald

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Prior to the opening of the Portsmouth Whole Foods Store - Food Industry Network interviewed Holly Long from Whole Foods and she discussed why they selected SeaBee Honey for their store.  

Hyper Local is when we have honey close to the retailer.  As many of you know we spread our hives around the Seacoast of New Hampshire and beyond.  Each hive's honey is processed individually and traceable back to the hive.  Whole Foods is aligned with this our approach and is one of the reasons we decided to partner with them in their new Portsmouth store.

​Does Whole Foods currently have a presence in the Portsmouth area? Curious as to how you approach the forager process when Whole Foods is opening a new store. How do you find and foster new brands in each market?
We currently have two existing stores in New Hampshire as well as a store in Portland, Maine, that is not too far away from Portsmouth, but this is our first store on the seacoast of New Hampshire. For new stores, we typically try to forage for items from the immediate local area, but we also look to highlight existing local suppliers that we already have amazing relationships with. For our Portsmouth store, we’ve done just that. We have some hyperlocal honey from a new supplier, SeaBee Honey....

The rest of the interview can be viewed with the link below.

https://foodindustrynetwork.com/a-whole-foods-forager-provides-sneak-peek-of-new-portsmouth-store/

Covid-19 has had a tough impact on all aspects of our life and one area that has suffered is with our schools.  Students have had a tough time with remote learning, masks, and social spacing interfering with their education.  Recently, the folks at the Little Harbour Elementary school in Portsmouth, NH reached out to SeaBee Honey to ask if we could visit the students with our observation hives.  The teachers were putting on an environmental camp replacement program and wanted to include a pollinator session.  We couldn't refuse such a noble request.

Today, we packed up our pollinator materials and observation hive and set up on the lawn at LHS.  We met with 3 large groups of students and provided an overview on pollination, showed the bees (including a queen), and took some awesome questions.   The temperature was hot but the kids had such great questions and excitement we hardly noticed.  It was a great discussion and we were able to help the students understand the value of pollinators to our ecology and how they could help.  We learn a lot when we do these educational sessions and it helps us hone our message to the next generation.  

Please reach out to us if you have any educational events you would like us to participate in.

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