Important Notice

We are having serious problems in beekeeping in the UK.  Even
the commercial beekeepers that we know are struggling. 
Nobody that we know has any honey.

We are now going into winter with very limited honey in the hives. 
We also have the problem of drone laying queens.  Last year the
queens didn't mate properly so when she lays an egg it is the male
drone bee.  Typically the males do nothing in the hive, so the few
female workers are working twice as hard.  They die and then the 
hive collapses.

The weather being out of season and jumping from cold, wet, sunny
and then wet again. The plants released the little pollen that they had
later and later in the day.  This resulted in the little pollen that they did
bring in they eat themselves when it was cold and wet.  As beekeeper
we only take off the excess honey.  Only there wasn't any excess
to take off. 

This is the down side of having a locally produced natural produce.

We are going to try to keep our retail outlets supplied. 

Please be patient and come back to us next year. Send us an email
for an update.

We have both been beekeepers for 8 years, honey, wax and bees have
become so much part of our lives that we are missing them already. 
Fellow beekeepers have 60, 30, and 15 years experience as individual
beekeepers and they have never seen anything like last year for lack
of bees and honey production.

Unlike commercial beekeepers who tend to mix honey from their various sites.
We deliberately keep the honey that we take off our hives divided into the
specific sites that it has come from.

Everything that a hive produces can be used. We want to show this to you
in a practical way. We only want to sell products that we have made with all
the gifts that the hive allows us to collect. If we do need to use other
products they are in their most natural state e.g Raw Linseed oil in our polish.

We are registered with Rotherham Council with Food Health and Safety as a
food producer.