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A variety of healthy honey
H.L. Franklins offers honey from 8 floral sources
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The eight floral sources produce different shades of honey, as shown in this lineup of jars from dark sourwood, left, to pale, partly crystalized cotton blossom, right.
H.L. Franklin's Healthy Honey, distributing attractively packaged honey in eight flavor variations identified with floral sources, shares a building on Statesboro's North Main Street with the law offices of H. Lehman Franklin Jr. and his daughter Laura's public relations and marketing firm, LF&CO. In fact, Laura Franklin Cooke also owns the honey company, having purchased it in 2013 from her brother, H. Lehman Franklin III, who launched the brand in 2011. It's named for their late grandfather, the original H.L. Franklin, and along the way to developing the brand, his grandchildren learned that a beekeeper with a family tradition of his own was keeping bees on their family farm. "We still work with a fifth-generation beekeeper that keeps his bees on our Franklin family farm as one of the locations of the hives, and it was just this harmonious, wonderful information that we learned along the way," Cooke said.
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