Food & Land · No. 01
A journal of the real Florida
Issue 01
— the Gulf Coast
A season on the Gulf — beekeepers working wildflower hives, a shoreline restored by two hundred hands, and the last cigar rollers of Ybor. Films, photo essays, and words from the field.
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Issue 01 — The Gulf Coast · Four issues a year
In This Issue
Three stories from the Gulf Coast
Outdoors & Ocean · No. 02
Ocean Aid: A Morning on the Gulf
Food & Drink · No. 03
Second Shift on Central Avenue
Why we make this
Florida moves fast. We’re here for what lasts.
Every quarter we go where the state actually works — hives, docks, kitchens, workshops — and spend enough time to tell it straight. No sponsored features. No listicles. Just people, place, and craft, on film and in print.
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Hives, honey, and one daughter learning the trade — inside a slow family business on the Gulf.
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Hava works her first frames under her father’s eye. Wimauma bee yard, June.
Josh works his frames slowly and without gloves. The wildflower flow peaks in June, before the first summer storms move in off the Gulf.
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A father, a daughter, and forty hives on the edge of Tampa Bay.
Josh Harris didn’t plan on becoming a beekeeper. The first hive was a favor for a neighbor; the second was curiosity. Fifteen years later, the yard in Wimauma holds forty colonies, and the work has settled into a rhythm the family keeps together — inspections at dawn, harvest in June, repairs through the wet months.
His daughter Hava started riding along at seven, holding the smoker. Now she runs frames on her own. Nothing about it is fast, and that’s the point: the bees set the pace, and the family follows.
Left: The morning inspection, frames up slow and heavy. Above: Wildflower honey, bottled for the Saturday market and for friends.
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