Products
Honey
Our honeybees share the Heather and Bilberry flowers with a range of Bumblebees including the rare Bilberry Bumblebee.
Honeycomb
Our honeycomb story began in 2016 with the purchase of Lamb Quarry Wood in the High Peak. Our aim was to preserve this important ecological and conservation site.
The woodland has a wide range of flora. Beech, ash, rowan and birch trees provide the canopy, with holly bushes, new hazel and hawthorn growth providing the layer below. The woodlands carpet is made up of an abundance of brambles, purple heather and bilberries.
We soon realised that the heather and bilberries could offer an overflowing larder for honey bees and a fragrant flavour to their honey, so we introduced our first hive in April 2017. Our gift to you is a rich, golden, organic honeycomb, naturally infused with the floral fragrances of heather and bilberry. Taste, savour, enjoy!
How to Use Honeycomb
Honeycomb can simply be spread on toast, sprinkled on yoghurt or ice cream, or used in your favourite recipes!
Can you eat the honeycomb wax?
Yes, you can – it’s safe to eat but it has no flavour, but then you have the delicious honey within it which provides taste factor!
How do you extract honey from the honeycomb without an extractor?
Put the honeycomb into a colander and put the colander into a stainless-steel bowl. Smash the honeycomb with a wooden spoon to expose the honey and put the bowl over a pot of hot water. Leave over night and the next morning you will have wax in the colander and honey in your bowl – sift again using a strainer if some waxy sediment has seeped through the colander into the honey.
Health Benefits
Honeycomb is honey in its most natural state and is particularly rich in amino acids, digestive enzymes and B vitamins.
This honeycomb is made by the bees of Lamb Quarry Wood using the surrounding heather and bilberries that grow naturally and are untouched by pesticides or other man-made products.