Artisans and Producers

Naked Bee Honey Farm

Beekeeper Gayle Prevatt has her apiaries carefully located in pesticide-free environments of natural marshland, citrus groves and wildflower meadows. She keeps her beehives in place year round, rather than moving them for pollination contracts, which provides the honeybees with a variety of healthy, natural plant life for forage. They then produce honeys from such floral sources as blueberry, orange blossom, palmetto with gallberry, and seasonal wildflowers. Gayle extracts her honey from the comb by hand and never heats or treats it in any way, in order to preserve its wholesomeness and complex flavors.

Gayle is a sideline beekeeper, who is also participating in the UF’s Master Beekeeping Program. This rigorous program is designed to impart a high level of skill to beekeepers, in order that their work with honeybees can benefit their communities. She is a member of both Northeast Florida Honey Bee Association and of Slow Food First Coast.

Gayle and her husband, Enzo Torcoletti, are both artists. Naked Honey can be purchased at their gallery, Moultrie Creek Studios, at Present Moment Café, both in St. Augustine, and at Pie in the Sky in Hastings. She also wholesales her honey to 29 South, a slow food restaurant in Fernadina Beach. Get some, and be sweet to yourself!

Contact:

Moultrie Creek Studios
9C Aviles Street
St Augustine, FL 32084
904.829.2142

Hours:

Thursday - Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm
Occasionally varies, best to call.

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