Honey from bees kept in a back garden, near Pickering, North Yorkshire (May)

This honey is pale, smooth and gently sweet. Like eating a really good sweet — but better as it's honey!

If you like your honey to:

• spread on toast or crumpets and not run everywhere
• make a honey sandwich as a pick-me-up snack
• eat by the spoonful as a quick, delicious treat

this would be a good honey for you! 

180 jars of this honey were made by bees from a Yorkshire garden in May. 

Stephen keeps around 11 hives in his rural garden near Pickering, overlooking the old hunting grounds of Pickering Castle. The surrounding landscape — woods, hedgerows, neighbouring village gardens — gives his bees an extraordinary range to forage across all spring, and this May harvest reflects it perfectly.

By day Stephen is a large animal vet, caring for farm animals across the North Yorkshire countryside. Beekeeping arrived in 2015 as a gift —  a friend gave him a swarm to get him started — and it clearly suited him from the beginning. There's a patience and attentiveness to good beekeeping that maps naturally onto someone who spends his days looking after animals for a living.

The details

• Limited edition: 1 of 180 jars
• 224g / 8oz
• Stephen's name, location, harvest date and jar number on the label
• Sent 48-hour tracked with Royal Mail — two jars costs the same to post as one