Stour Valley Apiaries

11/04/2026

Restocking the honey shelves at Swiss Farm with white labelled Suffolk Honey 🍯🐝💛

28/03/2026

Catching up on Honey deliveries on a sunny Saturday ☀️🐝🍯

25/03/2026

EGF Free Range Eggs 🐓🍯🐝

Vera the vending machine is filled with all your favourite eggs and delicious local honey.
Come along and give her a go, there’s sure to be something that fits your needs.

///pastime.stealing.sprouted

20/03/2026

A lovely start to the day delivering honey to Andrews Butchers in Hadleigh 🐝🍯

Followed by discovering the most beautiful circular walk with Oscar the dog just off the railway track – quiet, peaceful, and the perfect way to reset for a busy day ahead.

Back home to take in deliveries of packaging and consumables, update the spreadsheets, and get orders packaged and ready to go. It never stops… but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

And of course, Oscar the cat has been hard at work supervising (or rather taking charge!) of yet another large delivery of containers 🐾📦

Thinking I might take a day off tomorrow… we’ll see! 😉

FridayFeeling

08/03/2026

Get • Celebrating the women behind the brands.⁠
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This International Women’s Day, we’re shining a light on some of the incredible female-founded businesses we’re proud to stock here at Suffolk Food Hall.⁠
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From cheese makers and beekeepers to charcuterie producers, these women are building brilliant businesses with passion, resilience and a whole lot of hard work.⁠
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Here’s to the women shaping the future of food 💪

03/03/2026

If your beekeeping association is looking for speakers - in person or by zoom - Kevin Thorn is a national speaker for BBKA.

Please contact Julie Thorn for a full list of Bee Talks 🐝

Email [email protected] or [email protected] or
WhatsApp 07557 105495

19/02/2026

If you’re at the Beekeeping Show on Saturday come and say hi to us Kevin & Julie on Stand 11 with our 🐝

We’ll have our range of beeswax products to sample and to buy plus information on wholesale to beekeepers and white label 💛

Sample Boxes available 🎁

We are ready to load the car up in the morning for Friday set up.

Feeling excited 😍

27/01/2026

🐝 CaSCA Webinar: Marketing & Finding Markets for Bee Products 🐝

Are you a beekeeper looking to sell honey, wax products, cosmetics, queens or other hive products – or simply cover your beekeeping costs?

Join Kevin Thorn for an open discussion webinar sharing real-world experience of marketing bee products and finding the right markets.

📅 Thursday 29th January
⏰ 7pm
💻 Zoom – BIBBA Members

This session is all about:
✔️ What works (and what doesn’t)
✔️ Asking questions
✔️ Learning from fellow beekeepers
✔️ Practical, honest insights

👉 BIBBA members: log in to reserve your place
👉 Not a member? Join BIBBA to attend

24/01/2026

Updating our website 🍯🍯🍯

https://busybeescosmetics.co.uk/stour-valley-apiaries/where-to-buy-our-honey/

Alan Fayers Pet Supplies – Lavenham
Andrews Butchers – Hadleigh
Chilli Café – Lavenham
Clarks Butchers – Long Melford
Coffee House – Fornham All Saints
Elmsett Game Farm – egg vending machine - Little Greys Farm/Grays Hall Corner, Sudbury CO10 0QG
Egg Shed – Occuld near Eye
Felixstone Bakery – Hamilton Road
Foulgers Dairy – Ipswich
Hollow Tree Farm -Semer Ipswich
Honey & Harvey – Melton
John Coleman Butchers – Boxted Colchester
Lavenham Bakery
Lavenham Butchers
Lavenham Church
Lavenham Little Hall
Lavenham TIC
Long Melford Tea Room
Melton Produce
National Trust: Anglesey Abbey
National Trust: Flatford Mill
National Trust: Ickworth
National Trust: Sutton Hoo
National Trust: Wicken Fen
National Trust: Wimpole
Notcutts Garden Centre – Woodbridge
Perrywood Garden Centre Tiptree
Perrywood Garden Centre Sudbury
Perrywood Garden Centre Buckhatch
Plumbs Dairy – Linton Cambridge
Roys - Sudbury
RSPB – Minnismere
Suffolk Dairy – Stowmarket
Suffolk Food Hall – Ipswich
Spencers Farm Shop – Halstead
Swiss Farm Butchers – Ashbrocking
Swiss Farm Butchers – Great Bromley nr Colchester
Willow Tree – Glemsford Sudbury
Woosters Bakery – Bury St Edmunds

Thank you to all our lovely customers stocking our honey 🐝 💛

14/01/2026

🐝 Bee Talk Tonight! 🐝

Kevin is presenting one of his popular Bee Talks this evening via Zoom to Tavistock Beekeepers, a branch of the Devon Beekeepers Association.

As a BBKA National Speaker, tonight’s talk is:
“Fast and Slow Beekeeping – The Art of Decision Making in Beekeeping”

It’s all about knowing when to take timely action and when to be patient, making the right decisions for your bees, and achieving the best outcomes for both beekeeper and colony 🐝✨

We’ve had lots of bookings this week for 2026 and 2027 dates – thank you!
If your association or group would like details, do get in touch 📩

08/01/2026

https://bibba.com/casca/