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Honey Box
Honey Box - Runny / 1 Box (6 Jars)
£50.00
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Honey Box
£50.00
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Honey is packed in boxes of six jars so it travels safely and arrives in one piece.
Stock up and save
- 1 Box £50
- 2 Boxes £95 (Save £5)
- 3 Boxes £140 (Save £10)
Honey keeps for years — and it makes a very good gift.
Pickup available at Lower Blakemere Farm
Usually ready in 24 hours
Six jars of proper local honey — helped to be made by hundreds of thousands of bees working the countryside around Lower Blakemere Farm.
Not imported.
Not blended.
Just bees doing their job.
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Produced by bees working farms and hedgerows around Blakemere in Herefordshire
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Local honey handled by a local beekeeper, not imported supermarket blends
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Keeps for years — honey is one of the most naturally stable foods there is
This is proper honey.
What you’re buying
Our Honey Box is made by Penny Bee honey and is produced by bees looked after by John the Beeman, who keeps hives on several farms around Blakemere — including 12 hives here at Lower Blakemere Farm.
The bees forage across:
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hedgerows
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wildflowers
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flowering crops
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gardens and trees around the village
The nectar they collect becomes honey in the hive.
John extracts the honey and it is jarred and labelled simply.
No industrial processing.
No importing.
No pretending.
Just proper honey.
A quick bit of bee maths
A healthy hive in summer can contain 30,000–60,000 bees.
With hives across the farms around Blakemere, that means hundreds of thousands of bees working the landscape every day.
They’re not just making honey.
They’re pollinating crops, wildflowers and hedgerows across the countryside too.
And we’re very happy to host some of the hives here on the farm.
We farm here at Lower Blakemere Farm in Herefordshire, growing crops, raising cattle and running Wiggly Wigglers alongside the farm.
Bees are absolutely central to regenerative farming because they pollinate the crops, hedgerows and wildflowers that keep the whole farm ecosystem working.
Without them, many plants simply wouldn’t set seed or fruit — which means less food for wildlife and less food for us.
As well as producing honey, bees quietly support a huge amount of life across the countryside.
We’re very pleased to host some of the hives here on the farm — those bees are doing an extraordinary amount of work for the landscape every single day. 🐝
Bees collect nectar from flowers and bring it back to the hive.
Inside the hive the nectar is turned into honey and stored in wax comb.
When the comb is full, the frames are removed and the honey is spun out of the comb, then lightly filtered to remove bits of wax.
That’s it.
It isn’t heavily processed, and it isn’t blended with honey from multiple countries.
Many supermarket honeys are blends from several countries, produced to keep flavour and colour identical all year round.
Local honey like this reflects the flowers and crops the bees visited that season.
So the flavour can change slightly from year to year — which is exactly how real honey should behave.
Honey is one of the most useful foods you can have in the kitchen.
Use it for:
- toast or crumpets
- porridge or yoghurt
- salad dressings
- glazing meat or vegetables
- baking and cakes
- sweetening tea
It also works very well with cheese boards and roast vegetables.
And it keeps for a very long time.
Is this raw honey?
The honey is extracted from the comb and lightly filtered to remove wax, but it is not pasteurised or industrially processed.
Why has my honey gone solid?
Real honey naturally crystallises (sets) over time. This is completely normal.
If you prefer it runny, stand the jar in warm water for a while.
Is all the honey from your farm?
Our bees work our farm and neighbouring farms around Blakemere. Bees can travel several miles while foraging.
Why are bees important for farming?
Many crops and wild plants rely on pollination. Bees help support the wider landscape that produces food.
Real bees.
Real flowers.
Real honey.
Those bees fly miles, visit millions of flowers and quietly keep a lot of our food system working.
The honey is really just their overtime bonus.
Thanks for supporting the bees here at Lower Blakemere Farm.
Phil, Heather & Monty
(and roughly half a million bees) 🐝🍯