Photo credit: The Little Farm
Owned and operated by Farm Bureau member Annie Morton and her husband, Dion Chavez, The Little Farm in Athens, Tennessee, is a small family farm that sustainably produces honey, wool, eggs, strawberries, and other fruits and vegetables.
When the couple moved to the farm with their three young children in 2016, the previous owners had generously left behind two healthy beehives and some beekeeping equipment. After a few years of trial and error – plus some help from the Cherokee Beekeepers Association – Morton and Chavez are now able to provide their community with plenty of sweet local honey, which they harvest, process and bottle one hive at a time.
In addition to the bees, they also keep a flock of about 25 chickens and ducks, grow fruit trees and berries, and raise goats and sheep that keep the land mowed and produce high-quality mohair and wool.
To learn more about The Little Farm or purchase honey, go to thelittlefarmathens.com.
Photo credit: The Little Farm
Giveaway
We’ve partnered with The Little Farm to give away a bottle of late-summer honey and a bottle of whisky barrel-aged honey to one lucky reader! Enter below for your chance to win.
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So difficult to find DECENT honey – not added anything & then hopefully decently priced!
Ready for some really good Honey from Tennessee!
Want to win local honey in my home town!
The honey at Little Farm is great.
I would love to win some TN honey.
I lovc tenn honwy . We han several bee hives on farm when I greww up…
I bought a gallon last fall. It’s gone!
Used to raise Tn honey- would love to win this!!!
We enjoy good honey
Please don’t reply to my comment – I keep getting emails – please start your own comment – THANK YOU!
enter me for drawing for honey!!!!
I would really like to win,love the artical.
Local Honey is the best. I use it to sweeten almost everything I eat…really great on cold or hot cereal.
We love honey
Love honey ????????????
Local honey is the best for allergies and colds. Love the pictures of your sweet sheep.
Looks amazing! Would love to try it.
I love to use local honey!
I love Honey
Why do your giveaways always require a Facebook account? I do NOT deal with them and your page would not accept an email address! Very disappointing
Hi Katt, you should be able to enter the giveaway without a Facebook account. If you click “Use Your Email” on the giveaway form, it should allow you to enter. Please let us know if you continue to have any difficulties entering the contest. Thanks for reading Tennessee Home & Farm!
Best,
Jessy Yancey
managing editor
Would NOT allow me to enter utilizing either method – FB or email. Annoying!
I use honey as a sugar substitute in baking and I enjoy using local honey, when possible.
I like to use honey as part of my recipe for homemade granola.
Cool idea!
Love to use honey. Sure would like to win
I love local honey. I helps me to control my seasonal allergies.
Honey ???? is useful to me in many ways. From baking to one teaspoonful in the morning and evening, for health purposes. Small farm local honey is always the best for this.
The best local honey around. Seriously.
This honey looks amazing
Some good East Tennessee honey would be a treat.
My family loves Tennessee honey Thanks for the opportunity to win!
My family and I LOVE honey. We use it for everything, from sweetening our teas to cooking and baking.
Local honey is hands down the BEST!!!
Thank you so much for making it available to us!
Love Tennessee honey! ????
Thanks for the chance to win local honey, we love it.
Show me the honey! ????.
LOVE this!
I always buy local honey & support local businesses.
Buy Local! ❤️
Local honey is so healthy I would love to win. Thank you.
I am always looking for a source for good local honey. So glad to learn about Little Farm!
Peggy
Thank you for giving us a chance to try out this local honey!
Peggy
Have been buying honey and eggs from The Little Farm since she moved in. I have NEVER been disappointed with the products. I even have a favorite queen from the hives. Annie is a joy to work with too.
I always look for local honey when I purchase and sometimes that isn’t easy to find. It would be good to try the honey from Little Farm, a place I haven’t yet had opportunity to visit.
Neither do I deal with Facebook or Twitter, and certainly have NO plans to do so. Please don’t limit the opportunity to enter contests to one’s social media accounts.
This is GREAT tasting honey. My family and I love it. Very reasonable price and friendly service. Highly recommend.
I love honey! Hot tea with honey is my favorite.
I love honey!
All natural honey!
They have amazing honey! I tell everyone about it!
I love honey. My husband uses honey in his hot tea, which he drinks several times a day now that it is cold.
Honey on biscuits or to sweeten my grits! You GO GIRLFRIEND! So happy your hard work is getting some notice. 😉 <3
Got my honey last season very light in color and flavorful too. yummy
I love honey and so do my kiddos! My favorite is to put it in tea!
I’d like to win because my husband and I both love honey and local is best!
My husband uses honey in his coffee every day. This would be great
Honey is a great anti-bacterial. I use it when my family has any infections.
I am excited to learn about your little farm. That honey is so clear and beautiful. I would love to win a jar of it!
I love using honey in hot tea. Thanks for your generosity.
Whiskey barrel aged honey sounds divine!
I love Tennessee local honey!
Local Tennessee honey is the best!
Honey + sleepytime tea at night, every night!
Love me some honey.
We use local honey all the time to combat allergies.
I need it to help with my allergies!
Athens , Tn is an hour away from our home, but I plan to take a trip there to visit The Little Farm. Honey help my arthitis.
Would love to try the honey. Thank you.
Need some honey!
Honey and biscuits and butter are great
I love to use honey in homemade bread recipes. It adds a nice amount of sweetness without having to use sugar. I also enjoy spreading it on top of toast!
We love fresh honey. It is delicious with health benefits.
I am new to Tennessee, I am loving it in every way but I now suffer from allergies which are new to me sadly. My friends are telling me I need to consume local honey to get relief, course I use it in my kitchen as well so winnable honey would be lithe cherry on top
Love honey!
Would love this honey on a hot buttered biscuit!
I love honey and its many great benefits to health. I have hot tea every evening and always add honey to my tea.
I love local honey, I believe it helps with allergies.
We love honey and enjoyed this month’s Home & Farm. The whiskey barrel aged honey sounds especially interesting. It is good to see family run small farms making a difference in their communities.
I would love to win because we use quite a bit of honey and these flavors sound wonderful. Honey has so many healthy uses, and its always a treat!
I love honey in baked goods but most of all I love honey on buttered cornbread for dessert! These flavors sound scrumptious.
Like so many of the other comments we also have learned years ago of the benefits of local honey. We also use it for sugar replacement in our cooking. Hope to get the opportunity to taste and use your products. Keep up the good work, and it is a great opportunity for your children to learn the value of farm life.
Would love to try the honey.
Would love to try the honey.
Would like to try the honey.
What a wonderful local business
I Love Honey
My father had hives on our Farm in Rutherford county. He even built a honey house to process the honey!
Makes me want to go ahead and bake some biscuits!
We LOVE honey!
Love local honey for allergies and the taste is awesome
Hubby & I LOVE honey and would rather support a locally owned business than a chain. Really enjoyed reading about your farm & would love to visit!
Well, local for us is the new “best.” I have always wanted bees but because of severe swelling and allergy to their stings, that’s probably not my reality. However, I enjoy watching their conjoined efforts to amass a wealth of honey. We’ve studied them as a family, watched them with leg baskets full of pollen, and relished the miracle of their honey.
Since we try to limit our sugar intake, we try to use as much organic, local, and natural sweeteners as possible. To say it lightly, we go through lots of honey. We enjoy it in freshly baked breads, honey “very sticky” buns, no bake carob treats, and plain raw “one licks” as my children like to say; a honey drizzle licked off their fingers.
We would really like to support the Little Farm in Athens and what better way to start than by a honey “gratis” celebration. Count on us to share your honey in home baked treats with friends and family. Send us the honey and we’ll send the pics.:o)
The Little Farm is amazing and the owners are very nice. Agnes Nutter honey was great (it’s named after the queen of the hive!)
I adore this little farm and the family who run it! I always love seeing their updates! What a wonderful feature for them!
This honey is sooooo good!
Have been looking for local honey supplier.
Looking forward to visiting late April and would love to win the giveaway!
I LOVE honey but especially local honey. Really helps my seasonal allergies plus it’s just the best on a biscuit. Hope I can win some!!
Yay, honey!
I’ve had just about any honey but not this so I’d love to try it.
Loved the article In Tn Home & Farm! Will have to bring our grandgirls for a visit!
Honey on homemade toasted sourdough bread. Ahhhh, the good things in life!
Love honey and all the benefits
I’ve recently started eating honey from a local farm but their bees didn’t produce last year due to a poor pollination year so I was bummed. I am not sure how you enter the giveaway but hopefully I’ll win some of your honey to try.
We love our local honey! The little farm is the best. ❤️
Our family can’t wait to try their honey!
Mmmmm, love honey!!
We’re always eager to try new local honey. Thanks for letting us know about this source!
I like local honey.
Like honey and oatmeal.
I think it’s wonderful you provide natural farm fresh items I can buy for my family
What a beautiful article! It’s so refreshing to read about thriving family farms. Can’t wait to try your farm-fresh honey.
Locally produced honey from local farms is the healthiest honey. I look for it at local farmers’ markets.
Love local honey. Look forward to enjoying some of your farm fresh honey!!
Hello! So glad to hear about this Little Farm! Can’t wait to visit soon and hopefully try some yummy honey!
I love honey plus it it so good for you!!!!
I was a beekeeper for many years when my late husband and I had an organic farm in E TN. We had 36 hives, and sold most of our honey to restaurants. I admire you for your farming/beekeeping efforts and also for your wisdom in raising your children in a healthy natural environment.
I love honey in my coffee, so I would truly enjoy a free sample!
Love home grown honey or home grown anything.
Hoping to learn about raising bees to make honey when I retire.
Love raw honey with breakfast, especially from local market.
Have tried NUMEROUS DIFFERENT TIMES ‘unsuccessfully’ to enter this giveaway. Will not respond to my input or clicking on the link to sign up using my email. Frustrating & disappointing!
My family loves honey.Local honey is good for allegerys,
Love tn small farms and the chance to try local honey would certainly leave a sweet taste in my mouth.
Love honey! It’s so good for you. ????
We love local Honey!! Would love to win and try it!! We will have to visit you this spring.
Thank you
Love local honey & apple cider vinegar mixed with water for a healthy drink ever day.
Always had a sweet tooth for Honey
I want to win some good ole honey.
Would love to win honey!!
This honey is the best there is when it comes to local honey . I am an avid believer in honey for allergies and have given my kids a teaspoon a day for the last 15 years at least .
Looking forward to trying some local honey.
Honey lover! would like to try whiskey barrel aged !
I’m a honey lover and would love to try “whiskey barrel aged ” honey.
Would love to win some honey.It would make our bread taste so much better, being home made. We bake a lot of bread.
We would love to win
It is so hard to find local honey! Excited to try it.
Love honey!
Would love to try your honey.
I would LOVE to have some Tennessee Little Farm honey!! Local honey is the best!
Eat honey for health benefits. Would love to try the whiskey barrel honey
Love the idea of the whiskey barrel honey and appreciate the time the little farm has invested in making honey! Hope to be able to purchase soon and would love to win a bottle as well!!
My husband and I eat honey daily.
We would love to taste yours!
Honey stays on our table – love it in hot tea and with peanut butter! Anxious to sample yours!
Very cool prize pack! We love local honey to cook with!
I love supporting local families and farms and enjoying their food! One of my best friends is from Athens; I’ll have to ask her about this!
Those little bees work very hard to provide us with this amazing and wonderful
sweet and nutritious delightful product … HONEY !!
I would be delighted to receive some of this marvelous honey from our Tennessee neighbors.
Would love to win some Tennessee honey. I am sure it will be delicious.
Would love to win some TN honey to share with my family.
I’d love to try some local honey!
I’m always searching for delicious honey that will help with local, seasonal allergies!
I would love to win this! I enjoy adding honey to my coffee in the mornings! It adds a sweet twist!
I love to try different honey!
I love honey on my biscuits, toast, peanut butter sandwich, and pancakes! I sure would love to try your honey! It sounds wonderful! Thanks for the chance! ❤️
Anxious to taste good home based honey products from Athens, TN
Local honey is the way to go! Would love to try your farm’s honey ????