Ted Dennard first got interested in honey when he met an old beekeeper out in the boondocks south of Savannah named Roy Hightower. Ted starting learning the mysteries of the trade, and the young man was hooked. "Once you get into bees you find out how amazing they are," he says in his soft Georgia accent. "The wonder of them." The wonder never left. Honey has been a major part of his life ever since. He kept bees in high school. He kept bees at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenessee. He has traveled the world to see bees making medicinal manuka honey in New Zealand, rubber honey in Vietnam, logwood honey in Jamaica, heather honey in Ireland, and the famous tilleul lavendar honey of France. Now, more than two decades after Old Roy passed on to that flower field in the sky, he finds myself, like Roy, rattling around in an old truck filled with bees. He spends most of his time in his honey workshop, but when he tends the beehives in deep forested river basins and lush mountain valleys, he thinks of Roy.