queen bee gift set in cardboard box with decorative fill featuring three sample teas, three sample honeys, large tea, large honey, glass tea pot and tea scoop

Queen Bee Gift Set - ST&HCo Starter Kit

$ 115.00

An ideal gift for the tea lover in your life, the Queen Bee Gift Set featuresour three most popular teas and honeys, along with a beautiful glass tea pot for brewing at home, our special tea of the month, a local treat, and one of our rare European honeys.

Our Queen Bee Tea & Honey Gift Set showcases samples of our best-selling English Breakfast, Spa City Earl & Flu Shot teas, alongside mini Wildflower, Cinnamon, and Mango Infused honeys. Each gift set also includes a glass tea pot and tea scoop for brewing the perfect cup, as well as our featured tea of the month, a gorgeous monofloral European honey, and a local tea and chocolate bar.

This gift set is an alternative to purchasing our Queen Bee Tea & Honey Subscription Box, which is offered at a discount and ships on a quarterly basis. 

White bags of loose tea on shelves at Saratoga Tea & Honey Co.

Our passion for teas...

We are delighted to be able to share one of the largest and most varied collections of single origin traditional teas on the East Coast with our communi·tea. Personally curated by owner Hayley, these teas come to us from small farms and collectives and represent the best of their terroirs and production styles. While wondering our shelves in-person or online, you will discover familiar favorites like English Breakfast and Long Jing (Dragonwell) alongside rare teas like Shan Lin Xi and herbal tisanes blended for mindfulness, inflammation, and much more.

wall of monofloral raw honeys at Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. in Saratoga Springs NY

& bees...

Raw honey is one of nature's most marvelous gifts. Not only is honey a marvel of energy-giving carbohydrates fortified with antioxidants, minerals and beneficial enzymes - making it the healthiest natural sugar - honey comes in a rainbow of flavors and varieties with something for everyone to appreciate and enjoy. From dark, robust honeys like Buckwheat and Chestnut to light or amber honeys like Tupelo or Orange Blossom, the subtle and sometimes not so subtle flavor differences between varietal honeys lend themselves to extraordinary flavor combinations and experimentation in the kitchen, on the charcuterie board, or in your favorite cup of tea.

all started with our Queen Bee!

A trained chef, Hayley's vision for Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. has been her entire lifetime in the making. Though she was still drinking espresso at the time, the Tea & Honey seeds were planted in the kitchens of Michelin-starred restaurants with training and appreciation for food and beverage as not just sustenance, but experience and hospitality. Her time spent as a chef-instructor at Jacques Pépin's French Culinary Institute introduced her first to matcha (and its ability to enhance sustained and steady focus), then to the subtleties of single-origin traditional teas like high mountain Taiwanese oolong. As a celebrated and awarded taster and master of culinary arts, in 2015 Hayley opened the doors to Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. Since then, she has cultivated a communi·tea for discovering rare and exciting teas, extraordinary raw honeys & unique gifts produced by small farmers and artisans from around the world.