R & R Bee Company

R & R Bee Company Supplier of nucs and queens. Specialist in local bred and buckfast. Local Sussex honey supplier

Hi, we’re Rebecca (Becky) and Roger and we’re the owners of R&R Bee Company based in Haywards Heath. We harvest our hone...
01/06/2026

Hi, we’re Rebecca (Becky) and Roger and we’re the owners of R&R Bee Company based in Haywards Heath.

We harvest our honey in small batches so we preserve the flavours from each apiary at the time of harvesting making each batch we harvest unique. 🍯 We also extract our honey using traditional methods that haven’t changed in generations of the family bee farming.

We have stockists across this local area listed on our website www.beesandqueens.co.uk or you can purchase it on line for delivery across the UK.

We’re also happy for anyone local to collect from our home if you email us on [email protected]. You can pay by cash or card on collection. 340g jar is £8.50 or 227g £6.50

01/06/2026

Clearer boards went on this morning at this honey production apiary to harvest the spring honey here but leaving at least one super (honey box) for the bees.

Of course I had to have a sneaky taste of what our bees had been foraging and it’s so different from an apiary just under 1.5 miles away. This honey is very mild and sweet compared to the other apiary which had a much stronger taste.

This is why we harvest our honey in small batches so we preserve the flavours from each apiary at the time of harvesting making each batch we harvest unique. 🍯

It’s a great feeling seeing the outer apiaries starting to fill up with nucs (small colonies). Plus we had a chance to s...
31/05/2026

It’s a great feeling seeing the outer apiaries starting to fill up with nucs (small colonies). Plus we had a chance to strim it so it looks much better!

This morning we’ve been at one of our honey production sites near Steyning checking on the supers (honey boxes) and making some splits. We haven’t extracted any spring honey from this apiary yet but actually there’s quite a lot to come off so planning for this over the coming days whilst the weather is more unsettled 🌧️

Always so much to do and continuously planning around the weather!

Need queens this season? We sell Sussex reared virgin and mated queens. 🐝We’re pleased to report we have a good number o...
30/05/2026

Need queens this season? We sell Sussex reared virgin and mated queens. 🐝

We’re pleased to report we have a good number of Buckfast and locally adapted virgin queens available for dispatch next Wed 3rd June. Our virgins queens are sold in batches of 10 queens.

Our queens are reared from carefully selected colonies from our own stock or from premium European Buckfast breeders such as Ivan Nielsen, Peter Stoffen and Tenuta Ritiro, chosen for their temperament, productivity and performance.

Virgin queens can be a great option for beekeepers looking to introduce new genetics at a lower cost or add to newly made splits.

We also sell mated queens throughout the season, again all reared by Roger and myself (Becky) in our hand made mating nucs.

✅ Bred in Sussex
✅ Carefully selected stock
✅ UK wide delivery available

If you’re looking for queens this season, please visit our website to place an order or email us if you have any queries.

We look forward to helping your colonies thrive this season.

Colourful nucs, warm sunshine and the sound of bees. Life is good!
29/05/2026

Colourful nucs, warm sunshine and the sound of bees. Life is good!

27/05/2026

A very productive morning checking our nucs for signs that our 2026 queens are laying. Plenty of fresh eggs and young larvae seen which is always a great sign and even better we spotted lots of the newly mated queens too!

There’s something so special about seeing those first eggs after all the work that goes into queen rearing! It’s really rewarding knowing these queens are reared by us in our Sussex queen rearing operation. Although it’s early days as there’s not much sealed brood yet everything is looking very promising so far.

Many thanks for the recommendation from Molly about the kids handheld microscope. We’d read about it on another group but after chatting to Molly we went ahead and bought one and it had a lot of use this morning! Our eyes are definitely not what they used to be so this is invaluable.

Early start this morning like many other bee farmers to avoid the worst of the heat. Forecast is 30c today but it’s a lo...
27/05/2026

Early start this morning like many other bee farmers to avoid the worst of the heat. Forecast is 30c today but it’s a lovely 13c currently. Loaded the truck with Apiinvert to feed the nucs as we are currently in a June Gap with little nectar coming in. Many thanks to for the quick delivery of our pallets yesterday.

Keep hydrated everyone!

25/05/2026

Another batch of delicious spring Sussex honey 🍯 extracted. Our honey is pure, raw and single origin, harvested in small batches from our own Sussex apiaries.

Unlike your cheap, blended supermarket honey, every batch of our honey is unique depending on where the bees have been foraging, giving each harvest its own flavour, colour and character.

📦 We post our honey UK wide if you’d like a jar of real Sussex honey delivered to your door.

🏡 Local collection also available from Haywards Heath. DM us or email on [email protected] if you’d like to order a jar.

23/05/2026

Always satisfying checking the grafting frames and seeing strong acceptance rates. Happy days! 🐝

23/05/2026

Stopped at the side of the road near to one of our apiaries after spotting a whole field glowing red in the distance 🌺🐝

At first glance we weren’t quite sure what it was, but it turned out to be crimson clover and what a sight it was! I love the wildness of it. A fantastic forage plant for honeybees and other pollinators, packed with nectar and adding such beautiful colour to the landscape.

We love finding little pockets like this around our apiaries 💛🐝

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