The Sweetest Selection
From our hives in Suffolk, straight to your table. Browse our selection and experience the taste of pure, natural honey. We offer both online orders and collection from our farm for your convenience.
Buckwheat Honey
Buckwheat honey has a medium to dark appearance which is known for it's rich, malty and molasses like flavour with a slightly bitter aftertaste. Also possesing a full-bodied, distinctive and somewhat "funky" aroma, often described as earthy or hay like.
It is higher in antioxidants, vitamins and minerals compared to lighter honeys.
Buckwheat is a fast growing cover crop that suppresses weeds and is grown as a green manure adding valuable nutrients back into the soil. Additionally, it's flowers attract large amounts of bees and other pollinators due to the flowers being a rich source of nectar which is also high in pollen.
Oil Seed Rape Honey
Our spring honey is mainly from oil seed rape (OSR), which is light in colour with a mild and floral taste and a creamy / buttery texture.
This honey is produced from most of our beehives in spring when situated near to the beautiful fields of abundant yellow flowers.
OSR is an essential plant for bees and other pollinators in springtime, It plays a vital part in building up colony strength for the year ahead with the mass amount of nectar and pollen early on in the year. Also weather dependent, OSR is one of our largest honey harvests from the bees.
Borage Honey
Borage honey has a lighter appearance than most other honeys, with a delicate citrus like flavor which is also known to have a sweet and sharp aftertaste.
The honey is produced from the nectar of the starflower, otherwise known as the borage flower. Borage is grown commercially by farmers and is easily recognisable by mass amounts of blue flowering fields.
These farmers rely on bees to help improve the pollination rates of their fields and increase their productivity. Most beefarmers, like ourselves will move beehives over to borage, adequate enough to provide effective pollination. A beneficial byproduct of this arrangement is the production of increased amounts of borage honey.
Bramble / Summer Honey
Our summer honey is the most popular of all our products and a best seller! It has a medium colour appearance, with a floral and light flavor which is sweet tasting.
The honey is a mix of local summer flowers, predominantly bramble which is the main summer crop in Suffolk hedgerows.
Other common plants flowering at the this time and capable of producing good amounts of nectar would be - Phacelia, SFI / wildflower mixes, clover and lime trees.
Sunflower Honey
Sunflower honey is one of the fastest crystallising honeys, which happens within a very short period.
It is a set honey which is light in colour, but with more of a orange / yellow taint unlike other set honeys.
It has a medium sweet taste intensity with a creamy texture.
Sunflowers are not very common in Suffolk and other parts of the UK, so a rarer honey type.
Cut Comb Honey
Our cut comb is produced from fields of borage grown right here in Suffolk. The beehives go on their annual summer holiday 8 miles away to aid the farmer in pollinating the borage crop.
The comb is the most natural form of honey from the bees, which is cut straight from the hive and is a delicious treat for breakfast, or our favourite - with a cheese board!
Whole Honeycomb Frame
Similar to our cut comb honey containers, although a more fun and interesting way of presenting honey comb in it's natural state when larger volumes are required. Prehaps, as an amazing showstopper addition to a cheese board with guests at a dinner party!
Suffolk Pollen
Pollen is a fine powder produced by flowering plants and is a crucial process for plant reproduction. Bees gather pollen for it's protein and other nutrients, which are essential for feeding their young and colony growth.
Pollen benefits to humans: A rich source of nutrients like vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, which can boost the immune system and fight inflammation. It may also improve allergy relief, energy levels, aid digestion, promote skin health, support cardiovascular and liver function and improve wound healing.
Female bees have specially adapted corbiculae (pollen baskets), not baskets in the traditional sense, but rather a concave area of the hind leg surrounded by hairs that when mixed with nectar create small, sticky and colourful balls to transport back to the hive.
We collect the pollen using a trap that fits onto the entrance of the hive and knocks pollen from the bees legs as they pass through. These are only added on warm days and to the very strongest colonies for short amounts of time during a pollen flow, so we do not damage or disturb a colony.