Small-batch raw honey, kept the old way.

Arundel Apiary sits on a peninsula where the Kennebunk River empties into the Atlantic — land the Gooch family has worked since 1637, when John Gooch came to Maine at the request of Ferdinando Gorges, agent for the Crown.

The Gooches became central figures in the settlement then known as Arundel — the stretch of coast that over the centuries became the towns of Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, and the Arundel that still carries the name. Their story was later told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Kenneth Roberts in his novel Arundel. They farmed this ground for generations, and their descendants still keep one of the oldest continuously operating inns in America, a few steps down the same beach.

Nearly four hundred years on, the same shore is still growing things.

Our hives stand on that land now, in Kennebunk — a small operation, and one we intend to keep that way.