Honey is a sweet, sticky bee product that has been valued by mankind for thousands of years, as a food, a medicine and an offering to the Gods.
It can be gathered from a variety of flowers or from a single crop.
Each individual type has its own distinct taste and its own best use.
Honey can vary in consistency and most honey will granulate in time, some more quickly than others.
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Spring Flower Honey
Bees will visit early spring bulbs such as snowdrops and crocuses. They love blossoms of fruit trees.
Oilseed rape can be a major source of honey in the Spring but the weather needs to be good for the bees to be able to forage.
Available in 12oz, 2.5oz jars and 1oz minipots. |
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Creamed Honey
Oilseed rape granulates very quickly and therefore lends itself well to being ‘creamed’. This involves ‘beating’ the honey as it granulates to break the crystals.
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Summer Flower Honey
Lime trees can yield a huge amount of
nectar. Also at this time of year, white clover, blackberry, raspberry and rosebay willow herb combine to produce a very good honey.
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Borage Honey
Borage is a herb grown as a crop by farmers for the pharmaceutical industry. Sometimes known as ‘Starflower’, it has similar properties to Oil of Evening Primrose.
It is extremely attractive to bees and produces a mild flavoured honey which can be used in tea and coffee.
Delicious on porridge! (WEB DESIGNER AGREES)
Available in 3.5lb buckets, 12oz, 2.5oz jars and 1oz minipots.
Also, cut comb when available and chunky (piece of honeycomb in honey – 12oz.) |
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Borage Honey
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Borage Honey
Borage Honey comb the most natural way to enjoy honey.
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Heather Honey
At the beginning of August, we transport our bees to the moors. Working the heather is hard work for the bees, as they often have to endure adverse weather conditions.
Heather honey is dark and delicious with a jelly – like consistency, which has the special name of ‘thixotropic’. Because of this, it can not be extracted in the usual way. It has to be ‘pressed’ or cut into pieces to be sold as ‘cut comb’.
It is more expensive to buy because it is much more difficult to produce.
Heather honey has a very strong and distinctive taste. Delicious on wholemeal toast!
Available in 12oz, 2.5ozjars, 1oz minipots and cut comb when available. |
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Special Honeys
My own special recipe using black and yellow mustard seeds! |
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Honey in a rack |
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Honey & Ginger
Delicious on toast! |
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Honey Fudge
Freshly made in small batches. Full of the best ingredients. Irresistable! |
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