236 jars from a wildflower meadow in Sussex — and a honey as gentle as the place it came from.
John and Gayle's bees live in what can only be described as a wildlife haven: wildflower meadows sheltered by trees, overlooking the fishing lakes that John created from farmland back in the 1980s. Gayle's life work has been the meadows — planted and tended specifically to support pollinators, and now home to an extraordinary range of plants, insects and animals. The bees here are, by any measure, among the luckiest in the country. This June harvest reflects exactly that abundance: pale, delicate and luminously gentle, with faint hints of apple and violet that you have to slow down to notice. Light enough to sweeten tea without changing its flavour, and lovely enough to eat straight from the spoon when no one's looking. The kind of extraordinary honey that people who thought they knew what honey tasted like just love discovering.
Beekeeping came to John and Gayle via Gayle's legendary persistence — she gave John a beekeeping book every Christmas until he relented. Several years on, I love my visits: the landscape is as beautiful as it sounds, and catching up with them is always one of the highlights of my year.
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Delivery Sent 48-hour tracked with Royal Mail. Postage is charged by weight — two or three jars costs the same to send as one, so it's always worth considering.
Our beekeepers Every beekeeper we work with is someone we've visited — to walk the landscape, meet the bees, and understand what makes each harvest its own thing. All of them are active stewards of the land their bees depend on, working to protect and enhance the natural habitats around their hives.