Bee Friends Farm

The Bread & Board Restaurant To Expand Into Downtown at VyStar Headquarters

March 6, 2020

Plans include restaurant and specialty marketplace – Bread & Board Provisions The Bread & Board continues to branch out from its Five Points neighborhood roots. The restaurant, best known for its baked in-house artisan breads and meats served as sandwiches or sandwich boards, is adding a location at VyStar Credit Union’s headquarters campus in Downtown Jacksonville. More than a restaurant,

Christie and Michael Leach of Bee Friends Farm

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Creative Spaces: Michael and Christie Leach of Bee Friends Farm

When he was sixteen years old, an employer advised beekeeper to quit his job every five years. “Incidentally, that’s what’s happened,” says Leach. Yet the bee business seems to stick. These days, he’s on his third year of the honey product development side of with his wife, Christie, and their