Micklebring Honey

Micklebring Honey Our hives are located at our home in Micklebring so the honey our bees make is truly local.

🍯 SOLD OUT – THANK YOU! We’re delighted to say that all of our 2026 Micklebring Honey has now SOLD OUT! 🎉A huge thank yo...
02/08/2026

🍯 SOLD OUT – THANK YOU!
We’re delighted to say that all of our 2026 Micklebring Honey has now SOLD OUT! 🎉

A huge thank you to everyone who bought a jar, shared our posts, recommended us to family and friends, or supported our beekeeping in any way. Your support means so much to us.

This year has been another reminder that honey is entirely dependent on nature. Every jar represents thousands of hours of work by our amazing bees and many hours spent caring for them throughout the year.

If you missed out this time, don’t worry. Please keep following the Micklebring Honey page for updates on our bees and to be the first to hear when next season’s honey becomes available.

From our bees and from us… thank you for your continued support! 🐝💛🍯

After the honey harvest comes the big clean-up! 🍯🫧🫧Can you imagine everything covered in sticky, runny honey and bees wa...
21/07/2026

After the honey harvest comes the big clean-up! 🍯🫧🫧

Can you imagine everything covered in sticky, runny honey and bees wax? The honey extractor, filters, buckets, containers and all the tools we use to harvest and filter the honey are left coated in it. Every single item has to be thoroughly washed and cleaned before it can be put away. And we can't use a dishwasher because of wax, so its all hand washed

It's a messy, sticky job, and definitely one of the least glamorous parts of beekeeping!

There is a downside to keeping bees... and this is certainly NOT the fun part! 🐝🍯

Thank you to to everyone who has already collected their honey I hope you are enjoying it just as much as we do. 😊

Please like and follow Micklebring Honey on Facebook for seasonal beekeeping updates, and to be among the first to hear when our delicious local honey is available.

Thank you for your continued support – it really does mean a lot! 💛

🍯 AT LAST – WE HAVE HONEY! 🍯After what has been a very challenging season, we're delighted to finally have some Micklebr...
19/07/2026

🍯 AT LAST – WE HAVE HONEY! 🍯
After what has been a very challenging season, we're delighted to finally have some Micklebring Honey available.
This hot, dry weather has had a huge impact on our bees. With so little rainfall, many flowers and plants have been unable to produce enough nectar for the bees to collect. No nectar means very little honey.
We're only halfway through July, yet our bees are already preparing for winter – around a month earlier than normal. The summer nectar flow has all but dried up, the queen has already started to reduce her egg laying, and the worker bees (the females) are beginning to evict the drones (the males) from the hive, as they are no longer needed until next spring.
Although we've managed to harvest our summer honey, the yield is much smaller than we would usually expect. Because of the limited supply, we're offering it first to our Micklebring Honey Facebook followers before advertising it on local community pages.
🍯 12oz jar – £6
Once it's gone, there won't be another harvest until June next year, so if you'd like some, please don't leave it too long!

🐝 Stay Connected
If you enjoy following our beekeeping journey, please like and follow the Micklebring Honey page. You'll be the first to hear when fresh honey is available, along with seasonal updates and information on life inside the hive.
Thank you, as always, for supporting local beekeeping and our wonderful bees. 🐝🍯💛

No Spring Honey 😔😔I know this isn't the news many of you were hoping to hear.Although we're enjoying some lovely weather...
21/06/2026

No Spring Honey 😔😔

I know this isn't the news many of you were hoping to hear.
Although we're enjoying some lovely weather now, and we did have a hot spell a few weeks ago, overall our bees have had a difficult Spring. We got off to a promising start, with the colonies bringing in nectar and building up their honey stores.
Unfortunately, this was followed by a prolonged period of cold, wet and windy weather, coinciding with the peak flowering of the Hawthorn and R**e Seed flower.
Unable to forage for long periods, the bees had to rely on the honey they had already collected to feed themselves and their growing brood. As a result, much of the Spring honey they produced was consumed by the colonies rather than stored as surplus.
We have harvested a small amount of honey, but sadly not enough to offer for sale.
We're keeping our fingers crossed for a good Summer flow and hoping our August harvest will make up for what has been a disappointing Spring season.
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and understanding.

If you enjoy learning about our bees and would like to be one of the first to know when our Summer honey is ready, please do follow the Micklebring Honey page.

Meet Bianca 🐝One of our hardworking worker bees, who kindly agreed to pose on our Cotoneaster bush for World Bee Day!Her...
20/05/2026

Meet Bianca 🐝
One of our hardworking worker bees, who kindly agreed to pose on our Cotoneaster bush for World Bee Day!

Here's to all the bees quietly keeping our world blooming.🌼🌹🌺🌷

Please like and follow our page for information and updates on when our honey will be available - not long to go now!! 🍯🍯

02/05/2026

When will this year’s honey be ready? 🍯

We’ve been getting lots of lovely messages asking when our 2026 honey will be available, so here’s a little update for you all!

Right now, we’re busy adding “super” boxes to the hives—these are the frames where our hardworking bees will store their honey. 🐝
The warm, sunny weather has been perfect for the bees, although a little rain would help the flowers produce even more nectar for them to collect.

If all goes well, our Spring Honey should be ready around the beginning of June.

As always, our wonderful Facebook followers will get the first opportunity to buy before it goes on general sale—so make sure you’re following our page: Micklebring Honey to stay updated!

Thank you so much for your continued support 💛

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Greaves Sike Lane, Micklebring
Rotherham
S667RR

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