About the brand

Savannah Bee Company

Savannah Bee Company is beekeeper Ted Dennard's honey house, built on tupelo honey and a lifelong love of bees that began when he was a boy.

Based: Savannah, Georgia
Since: 2002
Craft: Honey and honey body care

Savannah Bee Company is Ted Dennard's honey brand. He fell for bees as a boy on St. Simons Island, Georgia, when beekeeper Roy Hightower kept hives on his family's land. He later taught beekeeping in Jamaica with the Peace Corps.

Back in Georgia he went after tupelo honey, one of the rarest in the world. He sold his first through a friend's Savannah shop in 1999 and founded the company there in 2002. He sources from beekeepers worldwide, "most of whom I know by name." In 2022 the Specialty Food Association inducted him into its Hall of Fame.

At ModernTribe it's a Rosh Hashanah favorite, from tupelo and acacia honeys to the Tupelo Honey Hand Soap.