Honey

Natural honey is a product of nectar foraged by bees from garden flowers, parks, trees and hedgerows within a 3 mile radius. A single hive can produce 15 to 30 kilograms of honey in a year depending on local flora and weather. Our honey has a pleasant floral flavour which varies with the seasons as different plants come in to flower.

The bees collect nectar over spring and summer and store it in the supers. We know it is ready when they seal the honeycomb with a thin layer of wax. We remove the capped honeycomb in early August allowing the bees some time to replenish their stores before winter.

Before extraction can happen, we slice off the top layer of wax cappings revealing the honey beneath. The combs are then placed in an extractor which spins them fast enough to release the honey. The honey is filtered slowly, by gravity, through a coarse sieve and a fine mesh to remove any wax fragments and then poured into jars. We do not heat treat or pasteurise our honey.

Nothing is wasted. The wax on the cappings is refined and used to make candles and eczema balms. The honey is washed off the cappings and fermented to make mead. The frames are returned to the bees to allow them to salvage any honey not fully extracted. The comb structure is left intact so that the bees can use them to store nectar the following year, saving them the time and energy of drawing out new comb every year.

Our honey is available to purchase, however since we produce very small batches, we do not ship or sell in bulk, preferring to sell locally. We are based near Hainault in north east London. You are welcome to contact us through Facebook Market Place if you are local and would like to buy some honey.