Hive & Keeper: Finding the Extraordinary
Hive & Keeper champions the UK's hidden network of 40,000 small scale local beekeepers.
We bring you their honeys - each one is genuinely distinctive and reflects the enormous variation in landscape, weather and flowers across the UK
Our story
Before I started keeping bees in my London back garden, I thought all honey tasted like honey. Same flavour, same texture, same golden jar on every supermarket shelf.
I was completely wrong.
The first time I tasted honey straight from my own hive — raw, unblended, left exactly as the bees made it — I understood immediately that everything I'd eaten before was a pale imitation. Not bad, exactly. Just nothing like this.
That discovery is what Hive & Keeper is built on. And it's the same discovery I want to share with everyone who finds us.
