Thomas Honey is a family-owned honey purveyor based out of Lake City, Florida, and has a long-standing reputation for quality products. In this episode, you’ll hear from Mike Thomas, who started Thomas Honey in the 1960s, and Kortney Stewart, his granddaughter, who now runs the packaging portion of the company. Mike and Kortney share how the company was founded, the process of how bees make honey and then how it gets into jars, and what it’s like to have three, going on four, generations of the Thomas family still producing honey today.

https://www.thomashoney.com/

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