The Bee Warden

11/10/2026

11/10/2026

When the world gives you lemons…. And free range eggs ( thank you Claire Hodges). You just have to make the best ever lemon curd using Northumberland bee warden honey!

10/10/2026

More honey available at The Longhirst Club this weekend. Get yourself up to the club, have some lunch and grab some honey before it’s gone.

02/10/2026

A little taste of Longhirst 🍯🐝

Our very own Longhirst honey has been produced from hives right here on site - and the first batch has already sold out!

A brilliant addition to the club, with more to come from our resident bees.

🏷️ The Bee Warden 💛

21/09/2026

Just one colony producing honey this year, as the others are in the process of building up for next year. 70lb of honey throughout the year from 2 harvests, 1 in late spring and then 1 at the end of August. Heres some facts about what the bees have to do to produce that amount of honey.

15/09/2026

New batch of artisan honey, small amount from 1 hive this year in a new location.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1799085421101367/

05/09/2026

https://youtu.be/yT6U28743ZU?si=6nPQ5pit71PqxcmG

A perfect reminder that real honey is far superior to almost anything you can buy in the supermarkets

Tainted honey with varying amounts of sugar.

We take care and pride to
make sure the only thing that goes into the jar is honey

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05/09/2026

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This is why real honey is a far superior product than most supermarket products.

Take 5 mins to watch this and then realise why our( and other real beekeepers) honey tastes so good and has the associated health benefits that shop bought just doesn’t give you.

01/09/2026

🍯 There’s a lot more work in a jar of honey than you might think…

When you pick up a jar of local honey, the story doesn’t begin at the bottling table — and it certainly doesn’t end there.

First, the bees do the extraordinary part.

They collect nectar from thousands upon thousands of flowers, bring it back to the colony, add natural enzymes and gradually remove moisture until the honey is ripe enough to be sealed beneath a layer of beeswax. The BBKA says mature honey is reduced to around 17% water before the bees cap it.

And producing all that beautiful comb has a cost to the colony too. Bees may consume around 6 lb of honey simply to produce 1 lb of beeswax.

Then the beekeeper's work begins.

The photographs here show some of what happens behind the scenes:

🐝 removing and sorting old comb
🔨 stripping down and cleaning used hive parts and frames
🧹 scraping away years of propolis and wax
🔥 carefully rendering old beeswax
♻️ recovering a valuable natural material rather than throwing it away
🕯️ preparing that wax for future products such as candles, balms and skincare

Beeswax is far too valuable to waste. FAO identifies candles and cosmetic products among its important uses, so even old comb can begin another life once it has been cleaned and properly rendered.

And that same approach carries through to our honey.

Nothing added. Nothing diluted. Just honey.

Our honey is 100% pure honey from our own bees — with no additives, syrups, flavourings or unnecessary ingredients.

What you see in the jar is what the bees produced.

It takes healthy colonies, careful husbandry, hive inspections, lifting boxes, cleaning equipment, repairing frames, extracting, filtering, bottling and then starting the whole process again for next season.

That is why genuinely local honey is so much more than simply another jar on a supermarket shelf.

🍯 We still have a limited amount available

If you'd like a jar while this season's honey is still available, you can order through our Facebook Marketplace listing here:

👉 https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1000184656331127/

Once this batch has gone, the bees decide when the next one will be ready — not us.

Local bees. Local honey. Nothing added.