Honey from PYO, Cookham, Berkshire
- In stock, ready to ship
- Inventory on the way
Only 240 jars of this one were made — and it's a honey that genuinely surprises people.
Eduard's bees here are working a Pick Your Own farm at Cookham in Berkshire — and in August, when this honey was taken off, they had the run of not just the fruit and vegetables but a neighbouring farmer's potato crop and phacelia too. Phacelia is a cover crop that bees absolutely love, and you can sense the complexity it brings. This is a richer, more adventurous honey than Eduard's Iver harvest — think toffee and late-summer blackberries, with a long finish that shifts and becomes less sweet as it settles. The kind of honey that makes porridge or yoghurt genuinely worth getting up for. And the kind of extraordinary honey that people who thought they knew what honey tasted like just love discovering.
Like all PYO farms, Cookham plants different varieties of each fruit to extend the flowering and picking seasons as long as possible — which means Eduard's bees have an extraordinary range to forage across all summer. It shows.
Eduard has been keeping bees for over ten years, with hives spread across several sites. A carpenter in the winter months, he builds every hive and piece of equipment himself. His wife helps run the business while he's out with the bees, and I always leave their place with a warm feeling and more bee news than I can keep up with.
The details
- Limited edition: 1 of 240 jars
- 224g / 8oz
- Eduard's story on the label — name, location, harvest date and number of jars produced
- The perfect "saw this and thought of you" gift for anyone who loves honey
- British-sourced jars and labels
Delivery Sent 48-hour tracked with Royal Mail. Postage is charged by weight — so two or three jars costs the same to send as one. Worth knowing.
Our beekeepers We visit every beekeeper we work with — to see the landscape, meet the bees, and understand what makes each honey. All of them work actively to protect the habitats their bees depend on, talking to local farmers, landowners and councils about planting for pollinators and sustainable land management.