Ever heard of sourwood honey? Well, honeybees love to use this plant as its source for a very distinctive flavor of honey. Birds like warblers love the seed the tree produces. If you can learn to ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Sourwood is a tree for all seasons and is found in the forest ...

Trees were bent and stripped of their leaves ... “There’s way more sourwood sold than is actually made,” Mr. Tai said. Sourwood honey, with its hint of caramel and gingerbread, has its ...

With a mild start to spring, followed by some heavy rain showers, how are our bees handling it? Mark Lilly, President of the ...

Blooming in summer, when few other trees do, sourwood flowers help the bees keep making honey for us. The Sourwood tree has a lovely grey trunk with a pretty bark pattern, and a great growing ...

Every time someone asks me, “What is sourwood?” I am amazed. More than a tree or a flavor of honey, it’s almost a state of being. I remember the horror I felt when my dad told me that ...

The latter events celebrate the star of the show — honey culled from the sourwood tree. The tree, indigenous to the Southern Appalachians, boasts clusters of sweet-smelling flowers that bloom ...

The Sourwood Festival began in 1977 in honor of the region's important honey source, the sourwood tree. Over 30,000 people are expected to attend from all over the southeast. The non-alcoholic street ...

He’s been keeping bees and extracting honey since 2004. Early on, he had 20 hives in the North Georgia mountains hoping to capture nectar from sourwood trees. “But bears took out all my hives.