Elevating the Standard of Honey

Our Story 

Wild Tree Bee Company began when the Kennedy family tucked a few hives into an organic citrus orchard in the foothills of Temecula, California. That first apiary remains small and quiet, shaped only by the blooms and seasons around it. And from those hives came honey so vivid and expressive, so full of blooms around us, that it made one thing unmistakably clear: the honey most people know isn’t telling the whole story.

Most bulk honey today is blended into sameness, stripped, heated, and homogenized until the place it came from no longer matters. The nuance disappears for the sake of consistency in color and texture. The floral notes fade. The signature of the wild botanicals is erased. The true expression of the bees never reaches the jar.

Wild Tree exists to elevate the standard of what honey is, and what honey should be.

We craft terroir-specific honey: raw, single-source harvests that capture a moment, a place, and a bloom with the same integrity you’d expect from fine wine or single-origin coffee. Each jar reflects the landscape the bees worked, its botanicals, its pollen, its season—untouched, unblended, and pure.

Our reach across California comes from a collective of beekeepers we call our Harvest Partners, skilled stewards keeping hives in the wild, varied landscapes that define our region. Together, we operate as one extended apiary, gathering bloom-specific honey from the places each of us knows best.

And together, we’re bringing back the kind of honey most people have never tasted—raw, unblended, complex, and alive with the land. Honey with depth and a point of view. Honey that tells a story. For many who taste Wild Tree, it’s the moment they finally discover what honey was always meant to be.

Follow us on Instagram @WildTreeBeeCo to see our hives, our harvests, and the happy bees that make it all possible.