Honey for tea subscription

Our Honey for tea subscription is perfect for the tea drinkers in your life who sweeten with honey (or you’d like them to!)  We select one of our raw small batch honeys that would be perfect for sweetening your tea – or any hot drink – and wouldn’t change the flavour of your drink too much.

Raw honey makes a good natural sweetener as it's twice as effective as refined sugar, so you can half the amount you use and get the same level of sweetness.

To be a good pairing with tea we choose honeys that:

• are naturally sweeter than others
• have a flavour profile that won’t dominate, but instead compliments.

Our UK raw honeys are all from small scale local beekeepers, their favourite honeys just taken from the hive and run through a sieve, nothing else - so all the delicious natural flavours of the gardens, meadows, fields and woodlands that the bees visited remain.

• Small batch British raw honey that would be perfect brightening up porridge
• Size of jars: 224g / 8oz
• The beekeepers' stories in every box
• FREE POSTAGE and plastic free, fully recyclable packaging

PROVENANCE:

We know exactly where each honey has come from as we meet every beekeeper to chat and visit the bees and landscapes that make each honey. On each label we write:

• the beekeeper’s name
• where the hives are that made the honey
• how many jars of the honey have been produced

Our beekeepers are very proud of what they and their bees have achieved, and so are we – which is why we enjoy making them the star of the show on the label!

OUR BEEKEEPERS

We work with small scale British beekeepers who we visit to talk bees with and see the bees and landscapes that make each honey.

All of our beekeepers…

• are good custodians of their bees and the woodlands, meadows, gardens and fields they keep them in.
• talk to local farmers, landowners, fellow allotment owners and councils to encourage planting for pollinators, sustainable woodland management and protecting the natural landscape for their bees.

Our aim is to bring you special limited edition honeys from more and more British beekeepers: as long as they're good custodians of their bees of course!

WHEN HONEY CRYSTALISES

Our honeys will naturally crystalise as the glucose knits around all the pollen grains in it. This is a good sign as it means there's lots of pollen in the honey and it's enzymes are still active ('supermarket' honey is fine filtered and pasteurised to keep it runny for as long as possible). A honey that's crstalised will always dissolve and stir into a hot drink but you can also heat honey in a low microwave, oven, sunny windowsill or radiator to no more than 35 degrees which is the temperature in the hive, and it'll go runny again.

But please remember all honeys will crystalise as it's a natural process, just at different speeds and in different ways as it's all determined by the nectars that have made your honey. It doesn't mean your honey has gone off!

OUR PACKAGING

Our jars and labels are all British sourced to keep our transport miles and carbon footprint low. The labels can easily peel off the jars once you’ve finished so you can re-use the jar and extend its useful life. 

Our honeys are safely packed in Yorkshire hay and British sourced cardboard boxes, Opening the box is a treat with the sweet smell of summer and our honeys nestling inside.