Bocage Bee and Honey opens

Fans of Elizabeth Holloway’s locally harvested honeys once had to wait for the thrice-weekly farmers’ markets to get their sweet fix. But a new retail space next door to Rocco’s Poboys on Drusilla Lane means that honey-lovers can now grab a bottle of sweet, raw honey from Monday through Saturday, along with handmade beeswax candles, soaps and lotions. Holloway’s honey is regionally famous, featured in dishes at Café Adelaide and Commander’s Palace in New Orleans, and placing in several categories at the annual State Beekeeper’s Convention earlier this month. The retail space was more or less incidental to the need for more room to make honey, says Holloway. “We basically ran out of space in my garage,” she says with a laugh. She had been working from her backyard, as well as several storage facilities around town, but had no real workshop in which to bottle the honey her hives were producing. The store is just the tip of a large workshop space in back, where Holloway sorts into bottles more than a dozen honey varieties, from “Old Bridge” to “Perkins Road,” and creates a delectable new product, a perfectly caramelized, “carefully burnt” honey, perfect for meat glazes and desserts. For the holiday season, Bocage Bee and Honey is also offering gift baskets of several honey flavors—from light and floral to dark and sweet—along with whimsical “Honey Badger Honey” for LSU fans. You can check out the buzz on their Facebook page here. 3358 Drusilla Lane Suite 1D, (225) 448-5364