Honey
Seven honeys, because the hedge gave us seven different fortnights.
Most honey on a shelf is blended to taste the same every year. Ours cannot be: we pull the supers as each flow ends and extract them separately, so a jar of lime is lime and nothing else. It also means we sell out, in an order that changes annually.
What the hedge gave, and what we kept
A colony gathers a great deal more than it gives up. Most of the year’s nectar is eaten by the bees that fetched it, or by the brood they were feeding at the time. What reaches a jar is the remainder, after we have left them enough to winter on.
Gathered
Nectar through the door across the whole season, before anything was eaten.
—Eaten by the colony
Burnt keeping the cluster at 34°C, flying, and feeding brood.
—Off the hive
Taken in two lifts, in June and in September, leaving their winter stores behind.
—Jars, roughly
340g each, across all seven origins. Sold from the yard and three shops in Knighton.
—| Origin | In flower | Yield | Jars | Behaviour | What it is like |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loading this year’s figures… | |||||
Yields are this season at Cwm Aled and will not be next season’s. Ivy is listed because the bees work it; we rarely take any.
From the yard, or three shops in Knighton
We do not post honey — glass, weight and the postal service make a poor combination, and we have tried. Everything is collected.
340g jar
The standard jar, all origins, while each one lasts.
£8.50227g jar
Half size. Useful for trying four at once, which is what most people do.
£6.50Cut comb
Clover or lime, cut straight from an unwired super frame. Limited and seasonal.
£11.00Come and collect
The yard is open Saturdays 9–1 from March to October. Ring first in winter — we are usually out at the apiaries.
Cwm Aled, Llanfair Waterdine