By spring, Black Mountain Honey employed five local people part-time.
Emma signed supply agreements with nine beekeepers.
She refused supermarket volume because it would force them to dilute standards.
Instead she pursued farm shops, restaurants, gift retailers and online subscriptions.
A travel writer visited.
Then a food magazine.
The story they wanted was “young woman flees city to save ancient mountain honey.”
Emma corrected them.
“I didn’t flee.”
“What should we write?”
“I came back.”
The distinction became the headline.
Orders doubled.
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