SugarPill

For many many years, SugarPill has been honored to bring you the magic of beekeeper, poet, teacher, activist, father, friend, and all around amazing human Bob Redmond in the form of the very best local honey that he both helped to produce and taught others to do the same. First as Urban Bee and then as Survivor Bee, Bob has worked tirelessly to create a world in which bees could thrive, humans could benefit from their alchemical transmutation of pollen to sweetness, and that there could be more understanding, appreciation for and preservation of our fragile ecosystem. I am very sad to tell you that after living for many years with cancer, Bob will be making his own transition soon, and the world will be a less sweet place to be without him. I hope you will join me in supporting his family through this time, and to help give him the easiest transition possible, and not leave his family with an excessive financial burden as a result.

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Hello Langley ✨

I realize that this has been the longest goodbye ever, but time is funny, how it can go so excruciatingly slow and then all of a sudden things happen in an eyeblink. March 31st - only 4 weeks from today - will be our last regular day of business here on Pine Street - and we're gonna have a little party that night to celebrate! Details to follow - and also a huge blowout sale of merchandise and furnishings to follow as well, from April 1-9. I'll keep you posted about all of that - but meanwhile here's a few other things to know:
1. For those of you who haven't already heard, we are NOT closing, but we ARE moving! We will be reopening later this spring in Langley up on Whidbey Island!
2. We ship. Always have. Still don't have a website. Might some day.... But all you have to do is call, email or message us and we can send you anything you want or need - and we might even deliver it to you in the city personally...
3. However, there's gonna be a stretch of time between the start of April and at least the end of May where we will not have the ability to do anything except pack and move and unpack - so if you rely on us for anything at all, you are going to want to stock up soon - especially if you are a regular mail-order customer.
4. I'm not going to be doing very much more ordering between now and the move - so come in sooner rather than later to pick up anything you might want or need from us before we run out!
5. The past few months have been incredibly sweet here, even though also really hard, especially for me. Leaving this community and leaving this city, my home for 34 years, is as heartbreaking as it is exciting - and I really appreciate having had this time to say goodbye to so many of you in person. I hope to see as many of you as possible in this next little stretch of time, and also just want to say - Langley is the BEST day trip from the city you can imagine, and I cannot wait to be your destination there!
6. I will for sure be in the shop every Thursday through Sunday this month; probably more. Julia will be with you Monday through Wednesday. Fern's about to have their baby, so keep them in your thoughts💖
XOKaryn

This is gonna be a long one, so I'll start by saying that we are closing early today, at 5, so I can spend a little time with this miraculous person who I will not see again until after they have their baby!!! But YOU will have almost all of next week - Monday through Thursday - to come by one last time and say thank you to Fern for all that they have given you over the years.
Ten, I think, is how many we have been lucky enough to have them here, sharing their magic and expertise and care.
There's really no way that I can express what it has meant to me that Fern has returned to SugarPill in between all of the other endeavors and adventures they have embarked on over this past decade. They have allowed me to witness so much of their evolution as an herbalist, far surpassing my own knowledge in so many ways, and challenging me to grow in this work even as they looked to me for guidance along the way.
I think that one of the things I will always be proudest of about "owning" this business, is that it has never just been me determining what it has become, and it would not even still exist without Fern.
I could never have done this without you.
I owe you the world.
xok