Our honey is made exclusively from bees in our own apiaries located in and around Boxford, Suffolk. The local area is an amazing rural treasure trove of forage for bees from both the fabulously floral gardens of Boxford’s villagers to the arable crops in the surrounding fields. Additionally we have an abundance of local flowering trees that honey bees love, such as Sweet Chestnut, Lime and of course the huge number of apple trees from commercial orchards in the area. We are also lucky enough to have a organic essential oils farm nearby, so the bees don’t have to fly far for a Lavender or Primrose feast. It is this wealth of mixed forage that makes our honey well-balanced and nutritionally broad.
We love keeping and caring for our bees, and passers-by often see us working in our apiary, carefully tending to them to ensure they are healthy and happy. Harvesting surplus honey is a lucky by-product of this, but definitely not the focus.
We harvest the honey twice a year, once in Spring and once in late Summer. We only ever harvest the surplus honey that our bees produce and always leave them with ample stores for them to overwinter on food of their own making. We still extract by hand which although hard work, allows us to identify the type of honey from each hive and every single jar can be directly traced back to one single hive at a specific point in time – none of our honey is mixed with other batches. It is unheated, and coarse filtered only (to remove wax). We think you’ll notice the difference between our raw honey and a supermarket honey immediately!
Best of all, local honey has infinitesimally lower food miles involved in its production, so you can enjoy it knowing that it is environmentally-positive unlike large commercial products.
