Sweetwater Bees LLC

09/08/2026

Come join us for the monthly meeting of Monroe County Beekeeper’s Association! Speaker tonight is Rob Hickman, who will be discussing seasonal management.

Visitors are always welcome at club meetings! 🐝 495 Warren St, Madisonville - in the same plaza as Gizmo’s and State Farm, next to the post office.

09/06/2026

It’s honey stand Sunday! 🐝 Our self-serve honey stand is open and located at:

📍 496 Fish Hatchery Rd, Sweetwater

In our honey stand today you will find:

🥄 6” wood honey dipper $1
🍯 2.3 oz mini Bear honey $5
🍯 5 oz glass jar honey w/ dipper $9
🌶️ 12 oz smoked hot honey $14
🍯 1 lb squeeze bottle honey $16
🍯 1 lb glass jar honey $17
✨ 1 lb glass jar sourwood honey $20
🍯 2 lb glass jar honey $30

UPDATE: - eggs are sold out for today! We’ll have more in a few days!

And in the cooler, we have eggs 🥚 available! We raised some chicks from our own flock and now they’ve started laying - some cartons are smaller eggs from those new layers, and each cartons is marked large or small.

Our honey stand is actually open every day of the week, with the very rare exception. But we choose to highlight our honey stand every Sunday. 🙂

09/05/2026

EGGS 🥚 today at the honey stand! These are all washed eggs so they require refrigeration.

The eggs are in the white cooler at the honey stand. They are anywhere from one to three week old eggs; in grocery store terms that’s not old at all but I don’t like to sell eggs as old as three weeks, so I have a 30 pack of the older eggs in the cooler for FREE!

We also have:
2 dozen pack small eggs (from my new layers) $2
18 pack large eggs $3
2 dozen pack large eggs $4

Once I get these older eggs moved out I will begin selling our fresh eggs. 🙂

📍 496 Fish Hatchery Rd, Sweetwater

Cash payment in the lock box on the honey stand please - or pay for eggs using the Venmo QR code on the cooler.

09/04/2026

Our forecast high today is 98 degrees - with a heat index of 108! 😧 Everyone needs to stay hydrated - including the bees! 🐝 We keep several drinkers out for the bees and wildlife, including these 5 gallon chicken drinkers. Bees are terrible swimmers - we use rocks in the bottom to keep them from drowning!

09/04/2026

Main Street Marketplace Sweetwater offers a great opportunity each month for local makers, bakers, crafters and growers with their farmer’s market! The market is held on the last Saturday of each month, spring through fall. 🍂

This month, we have some family time scheduled that weekend so we are unable to attend. But if you’re looking for a place to sell your items, we highly recommend you check this out! Space cost is very reasonable, and the exposure is fantastic!

I’ll tag some local businesses in the comments, and if there’s anyone you’d like to see at the farmer’s market please tag them as well!

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🚨🍂 CALLING ALL VENDORS! 🍂🚨

We’re filling vendor spots for our Harvest-Themed Farmers Market on Saturday, September 26 from 10 AM–2 PM! 🎃🌽🍁

If you’re a local maker, artisan, baker, food vendor or food truck, we want YOU to be part of this fun fall market in Sweetwater!

👉 Don’t wait—register now to claim your spot! Know a great local vendor? TAG THEM BELOW and help us spread the word! 🧡

🍁 Saturday, September 26
⏰ 10 AM–2 PM
📍 Main Street Marketplace



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09/03/2026

Good Thursday afternoon! Today is a great day to visit our favorite shops, enjoy some local shopping, and do a honey tasting! We have honey tastings set up at Noble Curiosities and Sweet Fannie Maes as well as The Shops of Monroe with our wildflower honey, sourwood honey, and smoked hot honey!

🍯 5 oz honey jar with wood dipper $9
🧄 9 oz garlic infused honey $12 (limited availability at Sweet Fannie Mae’s & The Shops of Monroe)
🌶️ 12 oz smoked hot honey $14
🍯 10 oz creamed honey $15
🍯 10 oz cinnamon creamed honey $15
🍯 1 lb squeeze bottle honey $16
🍯 1 lb glass jar honey $17
⭐️ 1 lb glass jar sourwood honey $20
🍯 2 lb glass jar honey $30
🐝 Beeswax food wraps, variety of sizes priced from $6 - $24
📕 My UnBEElievable Life book $20

🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

We also have honey at our home honey stand, but due to the warm temperatures we are still unable to keep creamed honey in the honey stand.

📍 496 Fish Hatchery Rd, Sweetwater

🍯 5 oz honey jar with wood dipper $9
🌶️ 12 oz smoked hot honey $14
🍯 1 lb squeeze bottle honey $16
🍯 1 lb glass jar honey $17
⭐️ 1 lb glass jar sourwood honey $20
🍯 2 lb glass jar honey $30

09/02/2026

📣 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 - 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲

If you’ve been on our page for a while, you know about our sourwood honey harvest this year. If you’re a recent addition - welcome! Allow us to tell you about sourwood honey!

Sourwood honey is made from nectar of the flowers on the sourwood tree (𝘖𝘹𝘺𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘮). Sourwood trees are native to North America, and are most common in lower chain of the Appalachian Mountains. Peak nectar flow occurs for roughly two weeks, and somewhere between 1600’ - 2300’ elevation. Location and timing are everything! Last year we attempted to catch the sourwood flow, and were unsuccessful, probably a little late and we heard later that it also wasn’t a good flow.

This year though? This year we feel like we caught lightning in a bottle! ⚡️😱 Honestly, I don’t know that we will ever top this year’s sourwood harvest!

To have a shot at a sourwood harvest, we first had to move some bees to the right spot. Our bees yards here in Sweetwater are around 900’ elevation. So, we loaded 18 colonies on a trailer and temporarily relocated them. Fortunately, friends in Coker Creek 💖offered to let us park our bees on their property again - 1700’ elevation, and in a lovely area surrounded by sourwood trees.

Rob’s timing was a tiny bit early but really spot on - the bees had time to settle in before getting to work. And work, they did! Those girls brought in the BEST sourwood honey we have ever tasted! 😁 We quickly sent off a sample to a honey and pollen testing lab, and when the results came back we were floored: “𝙬𝙚 𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 97% 𝙊𝙭𝙮𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙢.” 👏🏻 This is incredible - to be called any type of varietal, a honey only needs to have greater than 50% of a specific source variety (clover, tulip poplar, etc) - so to be this close to 100% is amazing. 🤩

Sourwood honey has lovely buttery flavor with a light caramel finish - and you can find our sourwood honey at the following locations:

📍 Self-serve honey stand, 496 Fish Hatchery Rd, Sweetwater
📍 Sweet Fannie Mae’s, 305. N. Main St, Sweetwater
📍 The Shops of Monroe, 4023 Hwy 411, Madisonville
📍 Noble Curiosities, 511 N. Main St, Sweetwater

09/02/2026

Rob and I are thrilled to be a part of this great local organization!