Lexington, North Carolina

HoneyBell's Old Country Store

All-natural honey and beeswax, a small-country feel, and plenty of local products. And we can't forget the hand-dipped ice cream and milkshakes.

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Hand-carved wooden sign reading HoneyBell's Old Country Store

“Standing in the old ways, for they are the good ways.”

Jeremiah 6:16 — Rob and Angie Bell, owners

Inside the store

A general store that still smells like one.

Warm sugar, fresh bread, and honey. Bushel baskets of classic candy by the counter. Homestead Creamery milk in glass bottles in the cold case. Shelves of jam, pickles, local meat, cheese, and bee-themed gifts you pick up because they remind you of somebody.

Rob and Angie Bell keep the hives themselves, on their farm in the Welcome community, and they built this store so Lexington would have a place that feels like the country stores they grew up with.

Read their story

The store counter, with a Hershey's ice cream case, a Sweet Shoppe sign, and a General Store sign on a wood-plank wall

On the shelves

Honey, a sweet shoppe, and a local pantry.

From the hives

Honey they harvest themselves, including garlic, pepper, and mint flavors made with herbs grown on the farm. Beeswax balms, salves, lotions, and sugar scrubs sit right beside the jars.

The sweet shoppe

Hand-scooped Hershey's ice cream in a honey waffle cone, milkshakes, hand-painted fudge, warm popcorn, cookies, pastries, and classic candy.

Local goods

Farm eggs, cheeses, American Wagyu, sourdough, Dutch Kettle pickles and jams, bottled sodas, and goat's milk soap from Rierson Farms in Thomasville.

Wander the whole store

Red and green bushel baskets filled with classic wrapped candies — Candy, still sold by the basket.

Glass bottles of Homestead Creamery milk with red caps in a cooler — Homestead Creamery, in glass.

Wooden shelves lined with jars of jam, jelly, and fruit butter — Jams, jellies, and the pantry wall.