StarrBee Farm LLC

07/14/2023

We get asked all the time if we sell Hibiscus flower tea or Sorrel Rosella tea, and it does get confusing! Both plants are called hibiscus, which just adds to the confusion too!
We only sell sorrel rosella which has these and many other health benefits! Sorrel tea is actually a dried fruit that forms after the small white/peach flower blooms after a life cycle of one day. 🐝 🐝 🐝

05/28/2023

If you need restocked on sorrel tea let me know asap stock is going faster then I can keep up with orders currently! 🐝
Makes me so happy that our local tea is a huge hit! Thanks so much for supporting a small family operated businesses!

We have 10 large bags of tea left for $25 dollars each. Each bag contains over 3 cups of sorrel.
We have 8 smaller bags that are $10 that contain over a cup of sorrel. 🐝🐝🐝

01/25/2023

Here we grow again!! Baby sorrel coming along nicely as well as chives we replanted!

Tea is always available just shoot me a DM if you’d like to place an order! I do local pickups, delivery around the Milton-Pensacola area as well as offer shipping!

12/04/2022

Thanks to everyone that came out and visited me (Starr) and Aaron this last Friday and today at St. Mary’s Bizarre.
We enjoyed talking to each one of you and we hope you enjoy your hibiscus tea you bought with us!

Friday I didn’t have labels for the bags so as a reminder to y’all that purchased with us the usual Starr standard to make iced tea is : 1 cup of dried sorrel hibiscus in a kettle or pot of boiling water let go in a roaring boil for 5 mins. Take it off the heat and let steep for 20+ minutes. Strain sorrels over your pitcher and fill with water.

Tips: if you’d like a more concentrated tea place kettle in your refrigerator after it cools down and let it sit overnight. Strain over your pitcher the next day! This makes a stronger version.

Feel free to ask any questions I’ll be posting more recipes right here on the page! 🐝🐝🐝

12/02/2022

Come out and see us today till 6pm and tomorrow from 9am-2:30 downtown Milton at St. Mary’s Church off Oak St! 🖤🌺🖤🌺

12/02/2022

Getting ready for Winterfest in downtown Milton tomorrow from noon-6pm! Come by shop and say hi friends! Can’t wait to see y’all there! 🖤🌺

11/29/2022

We are so excited to be selling our sorrel hibiscus tea blends to all our local friends! Come out and see us and shop this awesome event! Support local y’all!! We will have sorrel in 1oz bags and blends as well as 3oz dried bags for you own uses! 🌺🌺🌺🌺

11/17/2022

Selling our dried Florida cranberry just in time for the holidays! Jamaican sorrel (Florida cranberry) has been used as a cranberry replacement for decades. Sorrel has the same tang as cranberry but not as tart with a slight raspberry and pineapple flavors.

This recipe calls for fresh sorrel but reconstituting dried by steeping it in boiling water for 5 mins and then letting chill over night gives you the same results without any spoiling of the fruit!

If you’d like to try to add some into your holiday menu holler at your sorrel Star ⭐️

Florida Cranberry Sauce is made with fresh roselle in place of cranberries. Bright, sweet, and tart. Easy orange and ginger-spiced recipe.

10/26/2022

Yay for rain!!! Happy blooms today that want to say hi well into the afternoon!

10/21/2022

Starr here hi everyone and happy FriYaY! I’ll be Pensacola this weekend for pick up orders or deliveries of tea! DM me to get on the schedule thanks so much! ⭐️ 🐝

10/21/2022

Farm and life mission 🌺 🌸 🌺 🐝 🐝🐝

10/18/2022

We here at StarrBee Farm LLC have Roselle “Florida cranberry” in stock! I haven’t done a great job at educating everyone on this wonderful fruit. The term tea gets used cus we fry the fruit calyxes and the infusion of hot water produces the juice of tea.
Florida cranberry Roselle are widely used to treat:

- Menstrual relief
- Colds, coughs and fever management (High in Vitamin C
- Anti inflammatory & anti bacterial properties
- Aids in digestion
- Weight loss
- Antidepressant properties
- Maintains healthy teeth and gums

Don’t just take my word for it follow the link to this wonderful article to learn more and see why my family is passionate about bringing this plant to our community!

https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/lifestyle/home-garden/2020/11/24/roselle-florida-cranberry-isnt-just-tea/6343716002/

10/16/2022

Hanging out with my girls this morning! Heading to StarrBee Farm LLC to pick more rosellas for orders!
Thank you all so much for your support so far! I’m so passionate about bringing this plant and tea to our area that I adore and have fallen in love with so much! The support for this community is HUGE!!
P.S. Strawberry hibiscus tea blend will be back in stock middle of this week! 🍓 🍓🍓🍓

10/13/2022

I’ll be stationed outside the Target on Bayou Blvd tomorrow from 11:30-12:30 pm tomorrow for pick up orders for tea! I’ll park closer to the end of Michael’s. PM’s welcome for meet ups!

10/13/2022

Making new tea blends today!!

Caribbean tea blend time!
Our Dried sorrel
Our dried bay leaves
And whole cloves!
Make this wonderful island blend that is usually served iced but I’m loving it hot currently to open up my throat from all the allergies! Delicious!

10/12/2022

Creating new tea blends! Lookit that color!!! So pretty! Who needs some sweet hibiscus tea in their lives? 🖤🌺🖤🌺🖤

10/11/2022

Hibiscus is ready!

I’m selling off this post gor $10 for three heaping cups which is enough to make three gallons of sweet tea and over 30 cups of personal hot tea to enjoy!

Dried tea mixes coming soon!

10/07/2022

Hey it’s me Starr, excited to announce we will be up at local markets in Milton and Pensacola with dates TBA!!
We will be selling tea blends and hibiscus lemonade blends!
Strawberry 🍓 hibiscus lemonade
Strawberry 🍓 hibiscus tea blend
Pineapple 🍍 hibiscus tea blend
Lemon 🍋 Hibiscus tea blend
⭐️ and⭐️
Elderberry Hibiscus kick a cold’s ass tea blend!!

10/04/2022

There’s always questions about what kind of hibiscus we are growing for our tea. We grow heirloom Jamaican Flower a.k.a “Florida cranberry” rosella. Packed with vitamin C it’s a dose of emergenC when sipping on the tea.

A generational cold and flu classic used my Starr’s grandmother who claimed the tea as her favorite way to “knock out a sore throat/dry cough” cure. 
Here’s a great article to explain more:

How to make hibiscus tea as a warm, soothing herbal tea OR sweet, tangy, refreshing hibiscus iced tea (Agua de Jamaica) + flavor variations!

10/04/2022

It’s time!!!!
Helpers needed and wanted for next week to help pick!
Farm is exploding in blossoms which means we are processing for tea starting next week to hit the market! 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Small batches available now!

09/23/2022

It begins!!! The early start of harvesting our Florida cranberry hibiscus calyxes to make dried tea!! We are so excited to try the first batch of the 2022 season!!
First we pick, then we dehydrate right after picking for the best taste and quality! 🖤🖤🖤

07/29/2022

Farm day!!! Hibiscus is huge and we are so happy at what we are working towards in our first year! Rosellas will be coming in the next month and then all of us are gonna be busy bees 🐝 with harvesting!!
We can not wait to offer our cranberry rosellas to everyone and hear what y’all make and love about it! 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺

06/21/2022

Farm visit this morning!

My dreams of starting a Florida based rosella hibiscus (tea/seed) business is taking off! Hibiscus are drought and high heat tolerant which is a blessing with this intense heat wave. Ours won’t be at market until this coming fall, so all of them pictures in the rows are juvenile plants, in a month they should triple in height and look quite tree like in appearance with blossoms in yellow and pink hues!

Wildflowers, and zinnias are loving the heat and the unamended soil we placed them on! Their beauty is a win all they way around. Wildflowers also help revitalize nutrient deficient soil and make for a great chop and drop ground cover. Meaning we only need to mow over this area in early winter, so once a year. Plus I get to offer the bees something extra when they visit! 🐝🖤

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdE5CDRw/

Farm flowers, corn growing and so much FL rosella hibiscus 🌺 making me happy today!

05/01/2022

Hey lookit some flowers we are growing for seeds!! Which flower is your favorite?

Mine is oddly the onion flower, they are so odd, really uniquely different and the bees love them!

04/16/2022

ME : “knock knock who’s there?l
Asher: “Was”
Me: “Was who?”
Asher: “Wasabi, and what’s up with you?” 🤣🤣

Y’all enjoy for our silliness today in the home garden! Fresh wasabi radishes, ready to be grated and used on everything? Asher’s first time pulling out the crazy green radishes! He was impressed, green thumbs grow green food!
I do tend to add to a lot of dishes for some extra zip! So yummy! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚



04/12/2022

Three sisters planting style!! Pumpkins 🎃, corn 🌽 and now I’m hand planting our beans to trellis up the corn!!! Yay!! Big things are growing on our farm!! 🌽 Asher is “the bean boy!”

04/10/2022

Fire azaleas 🌺!!! I can’t stop staring at these glorious blooms!!

Now the question is: Starr will you be growing these to sell?

The answer: yes yes I will! Starts will be coming soon! So stay tuned and drop a comment if you’d like a start because I will of course, make one just for ya!!

04/08/2022

Happy Friday friends!! Here’s some memes I’ve collected for this week! I’m sorta taking a day off today to put in more flower seeds!

I don’t how to relax, those bees 🐝 buzz by and I those ladies are working and so shall I! Sun up butt up in the garden! I am in that meme lol oops 🙊 🪴🍑 🌞 🍑 🙊🤣🤣🤣🤣

04/05/2022

April showers 🌧 bring May flowers!! I’m going in heavy on flowers this year!! For the garden and for those that have supported the farm and wanted me to get started going! See if I work my magic and get some very delicate 🌸 flower 🌺seeds to grow!!
We want to offer as many varieties of flower seeds as possible for next season. I may even be planting some flower starts to set up for sale for Mother’s Day! 🌸🌸🌸🌺🌺🌺

04/05/2022

04/05/2022

04/04/2022

Hibiscus 🌺 all have come up! Seedlings all planted by hand sewing into the ground! I’m so proud of our heirloom Florida hibiscus 🌺 wait for the photo of where we accidentally got heavy handed with seeds (yay for the seeder again) 😂😂😂 I’m so happy y’all!

04/04/2022

Sunflowers 🌻

04/04/2022

Asher is making me prouder by the day! He used our wonderful new seeder (back saver) and took over seeding in buckwheat!!!

04/03/2022

Happy Sunday my beautiful humans that follow our page!
Thank you for supporting us as we start up our business!
Today I’ll be on the Farm, and can’t wait to share what’s growing and in the works with y’all!
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Now for the flower beauty I found in the photos:

At our main home/test garden I found some Lyreleaf Sage growing (I’m not sure if I planted it or it just wanted to be here).

Nothing is a w**d in my world that is flowering, flowers are needed for the bees 🐝 so I always let nature do what it wants in the home garden.

Turns out I have a gem of natural plant on my hands and wanted to share the info I found!!

It’s not just beautiful to see but if you find this around your own garden you may want to access its actual properties. Knowledge is power!!!

Here’s a helpful link to different ways to use Lyreleaf Sage that I found: 👉 https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=saly2

04/01/2022

Back that root up!!
Moving Morning Glory seedlings!
Who would like some morning glory starts for their yard this year?
🌸 Moon 🌚 Flower Morning Glories
🌸Japanese Imperial Mix Morning Glories
🌸Keiryu Moutain Stream Morning Glories

*photo in comments of each flower 🌸 *

03/31/2022

I’ve done it! I’ve finally managed to grow….Poppies!!! Now guess what color these are??
Gosh I love these lights, I’m flower obsessed now and all my flowers and delicate herbs are coming up beautifully under them!
Last year I directly sowed in flower seeds and a lot of extremely tiny herb seeds into my garden with about 15% success in organic growth to fill mature plant that I could use.
This year I’m having 99% success rate in germination, I’m able to transplant my seedlings into starter cow pots that will allow the flower to have an entire root system and healthy plant 🪴 that can handle wind, spring rains and hail like we had last night!
I’ll be growing flowers and herbs non stop now!! 🖤🌱🖤🌱🖤🌱🖤🌱

03/30/2022

I can’t be the only one that loves tomatoes 🍅 so much that I eats them over the sink lol! It’s a serving of fruit 🍎 🍅 a day keeps the doctor a way and all that. Also yes I’m a dork, can confirm lol.
It’s windy and big storms are coming into the area so I’m cleaning up inside and daydreaming about when March exits like the lion 🦁 of a month it is. Fingers crossed for everyone’s safety in this massive storm! Stay safe out there y’all!! 🖤🍅🖤🐝💕