Lucky Dog Honey

21/04/2026

Even better!

Richard and Kay will now be presenting at the Trades Club as I've had to cancel.

Very grateful to Stephen from Hebden Bridge Uni and to Richard and Kay who have come together and helped to make this happen.

🐝🐝🐝

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17/04/2026

Good morning!

This is a strange one to write.

I’m retiring from beekeeping 🐝

Not long ago I moved all of the hives, full of hope and beans. But things have changed, and enough so that I’ve had to really look at everything and ask what I’m actually able to hold, not just what I want to hold.

I don't think of this as failure. It actually feels like the opposite. I'm choosing my own capacity, my own life, my own people, and not abandoning that in the name of something else, even something that I deeply love and will miss immensely.

There’s something oddly fitting in the name Lucky Dog. I do feel lucky. Lucky that I got to do this at all and lucky that I may one day get to do it again.

My local association will be stepping in to take over their care and for that I'm immensely grateful.

I'm grateful too to the landowners who have hosted me and my bees since I arrived here.

I've met some kind, lush people through Lucky Dog, some of whom I consider friends.

Thank you to everyone who’s supported me, bought honey, followed along, asked questions, cheered me on. It’s meant more than I’ve probably said.

I’ll be selling any remaining jars through Morning Glory coffee shop (as long as they’ll have me), and the rest of last year’s honey I’m keeping back... for gifts, for a wedding, for friends and family.

Anyway. That’s the update.

Diolch yn fawr, thank you and see you around ✌️🍯

08/02/2026

Good afternoon, Todmorden! I'll be at the Golden Lion on Sunday 22nd February with the usual offerings: honey, lipbalms, wax melts, and facts about bees! Come say hello, heckle me, jazz up the day.

16/01/2026

Thank you to Morning Glory for stocking our honey. Very exciting 😀

Sweet news! 🍯☕

We’re excited to announce that our coffee shop is now stocking local Lucky Dog Honey , produced by the lovely 'Honey Molly'. Sourced right here in our community, this golden goodness pairs perfectly with our Greek yogurt granola bowl. it’s available to take home, too!!

Support local, sip happy, and add a little sweetness to your day with Lucky Dog Honey. 🐝✨

04/01/2026

They are trained. This is not a honey business. We are protecting the kind land owners who lend us the flowers 🫡

16/12/2025

Of all the sites this is the messy one and the only one I got photos of (better get on and do some hive painting 😬).

Anyway, this is how we do winter varroa treatments in the wazzin' rain. Still waiting for a kindly nerd to invent a pop-out brolly for solo beekeepers to do their thing.

01/12/2025

Good morning!

After a busy couple of weeks, I have managed to jar up a lot of honey just in time for Christmas.

I have a retailer who will be stocking Lucky Dog Honey very soon but, for now, I will be doing one delivery before Christmas. Ideally just Todmorden but if you buy more than one jar, I will happily bring it to you. I'd love to be more accommodating but I'm just one person renovating a house, working full time and taking care of bees 😅

Please PM if you'd like some honey, or even a gift box (of whatever combination you would like).

Here is a selection of gift boxes already made up:

#1 Classic Gift Box - 2x honey, 3x beeswax candles, 1x Lucky Dog lipbalm - £20

#2 Burner and Wax Melt Gift Box - Bee-themed oil burner, handmade lavender wax melts - £15

#3 Self-Care Gift Box - 3x Lucky Dog lipbalms and 1x honey and oatmeal soap (arguably the best soap you've ever used!) - £18

Or any combination of honeys, soaps, lip balms, candles, seed bombs, beeswax blocks (great for so many things), and soaps.

Get in touch!

15/11/2025

I thought I was being super organised by jarring up loads of honey… but I’m already down to the last few jars! I’d planned on doing deliveries/collections with this batch, but I’ll need to jar up a fresh lot for you now.

If you’d like some honey, just drop me a DM or leave a comment and I’ll add you to the list. I won’t be doing deliveries regularly, but until my honey is stocked in my three chosen retail spaces (all agreed - just final bits to sort!), this is the only way to get some.

I also have a range of gift boxes coming up, which I’ll share soon. Today’s favourites were the oil burners with handmade lavender wax melts, and the gift set with three beeswax lip balms and honey soap. The lip balms are my own - hand-made with beeswax, essential oils, vitamin E, and almond and coconut oil. Almost the same recipe as Burt's Bees, but a fraction of the price per gram.

Now, back home to sort some last bits before beekeeping tomorrow (insulating the hives before the cold snap hits).

Thank you all for coming out today 🙏

15/11/2025

And we're off! First ever market with local Tod honey and a range of gifts including hand-made lipbalms and scented melts.

Thank you, Todmorden. It's been a hell of a year ❤️

07/11/2025

The first outing of Todmorden Honey will be to Gordon Riggs Christmas Fayre on Saturday 15th November. From then on, I will have a ready supply of stock to hand. I hope to see you next week🎄

We are looking for a small choir to come sing at our Christmas fayre on Saturday 15th November 1pm - 3pm.

26/10/2025

It has been a slow process but this year's labels are designed and ordered and Christmas markets in the offing. There won't be many markets but I'll be sure to let you lnow when and where they are, and perhaps tack on some deliveries afterwards for those who can't attend.

Viva la bee 🐝

24/09/2025

Todmorden Honey is go!

It will be a limited batch this year as we've had four heatwaves which has meant limited forage for the bees and a lot of eating up stores.

However, the bees are stocking up nicely for the winter already and are currently bringing in plenty of pollen 🐝