Three jars. Sixty-five were made. This is your last chance!
John's garden hives at Lopcombe sit surrounded by pasture, trees, hedgerows and neighbouring gardens — a completely different landscape from his Kings Somborne field apiary just a few miles away. And the honey is completely different too. Where Kings Somborne gives you bright lemon meringue, this one goes somewhere else entirely: the texture of clotted cream, with a flavour of clover and fresh green foliage that is more vegetal than fruity — complex, unusual, and completely delicious in a way that's hard to put into words until you've tried it. It's the kind of honey that makes you reassess what honey can actually be. The kind of extraordinary honey that people who thought they knew what honey tasted like just love discovering — and immediately want to tell someone else about.
Same beekeeper. Same area. But different hives, forage and harvest — and barely any resemblance between them. That's raw honey.
John used to combine beekeeping with shepherding, raising lambs over winter before turning to the bees each spring. Now he focuses entirely on the hives, working with a fellow beekeeper who's in his nineties and still calls John "the boy." He also has an engineer's mind that has never quite rested — the farm machinery he helped design in the 1970s is still working in the fields today. Some things are built to last.
The details
Delivery Free delivery on orders of £25 or more — two jars takes you there. Sent 2nd class tracked with Royal Mail.
Our beekeepers We visit every beekeeper before we work with them — to see the landscape, understand what the bees are foraging, and discover what makes each honey distinct. All of them are active stewards of the land their bees depend on, working alongside local farmers, landowners and councils to protect the natural habitats around their hives.