Christmas seems like a distant memory now and we are getting ever closer to the beginning of the new bee season. Again, 2026 promises to be an exciting year for us. We have lots of markets and shows planned and will add a full list in the near future. Please come and see us at one of our events to see our range of honey, candles and gifts. We will be at Alnwick market each week from Saturday 7th...
Blog: Bee Smart, Choose Local is this year's message Beekeepers across the UK are calling on consumers to discover the benefits of buying a jar of honey from their local producer, in the run-up to National Honey Day 2024 (October 21). The British Beekeepers’ Association (BBKA) represents more than 30,000 members in England and Wales. It has launched a Bee Smart, Choose Local campaign. This...
Delicious centrepiece for a celebration or use as cold cuts A traditional recipe for Easter, this gammon with honey and mustard dish is so versatile. Use it as the basis of your roast dinner with potatoes cooked in the extract, or as cold cuts with salad in the warmer months. In the past, gammon was always boiled as the brine it was preserved in was so salty. Now, brines are not so salty, so a...
Give our Northumbrian Honey Mustard a try We're delighted to unveil the latest addition to the Hedgeley Honey family - our Northumbrian Honey Mustard. It's produced with our friends at Cumberland Mustard, who create a fantastic range of mustards, pickles, sauces and vinegar. They've taken our summer honey and with a big dollop of their magic, created a wonderful condiment with their brown and...
Blog: Our lightest honey with the most delicate flavour We’re delighted to tell you that our jars of Borage Honey, made from the annual flowering herb also known as bugloss or starflower, are back in stock for the season. Bees love borage and the flowers are some of their favourites. Borage is edible, with the flowers used to garnish summer drinks, especially Pimms. The young leaves have a...
Nests spotted as far north as Yarm of these bee predators Before this year, bee farmers as far north as us may have seen the Asian hornets as a problem for warmer, southern areas. However, a nest was found in Yarm, North Yorkshire, this month. We must all be aware of the threat these invaders cause to our honey bees. The British Beekeepers’ Association (BBKA) wants the public to report Asian...
Defra's plea: how we all must play our part - July 10-16 Everyone can play a part in Bees' Needs Week and encourage butterflies, bees and pollinators in your neighbourhood. Just 5 simple steps to protect our pollinators will help to restore our natural world. Bees' Needs Week is run by the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Pollinators are a key part of delivering the...
Why we all depend on the survival of bees, Saturday, May 20 Bees are increasingly under threat from human activities and the UN's World Bee Day 2023 aims to highlight their plight. Pollination is a vital process for the survival of our ecosystems. Nearly 90 per cent of wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or in part, on animal pollination. More than 75 per cent of food crops and 35 per...
Make sure you buy real honey and support local beekeepers and bee farmers! A recent study has shown that fake honey (also adulterated honey) is being sold in Europe - a very big problem for consumers and beekeepers. This 'honey laundering' is costing honest beekeepers and bee farmers their livelihoods. The European Commission’s Anti-Fraud Office and the Joint Research Centre published the...
Hedgeley Honey's latest investment in cutting-edge equipment We've gone very hi-tech here at Hedgeley Honey and this season, we have invested in the APITracer system. What is APITracer, you may ask? Well, it involves using bar codes for all supers (an upper-story hive box over the brood chamber to store surplus honey) and hives. In the app, data is collected, allowing us to manage hives...
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