Honey from a back garden, Lopcombe, Hampshire

This honey has the creamy texture of clotted cream, tasting of clover and fresh green foliage - which sounds weird, but it's a honey that is more vegetal than it is fruity. It's a totally delicious honey with a complex flavour and definitely worth a try as there's only 120 jars in existence!

Limited edition: 1 of 120 jars

Size: 224g / 8oz jars

The story of the beekeeper included

PROVENANCE

 John keeps bees in his own garden in Hampshire, you can see in the photo of the hives that they are surrounded by pasture, trees, hedgerows and other gardens.

Until recently John combined beekeeping with shepherding; raising lambs over winter, and then beekeeping in the spring Now he’s cut back and focuses only on the bees, working with a fellow beekeeper who’s in his 90’s, so John is called ‘the boy’!

John has an engineering mind and helped design farm machinery back in the 1970's that’s still in use today - I loved being shown it all.

SUSTAINABILITY

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. They 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!

Our jars and labels are all British sourced to keep our transport miles and carbon footprint low. We absorb the extra cost  

DELIVERY

Sent by 2^nd class tracked postage with Royal Mail, with postage charged depending on weight. So my Top Tip - postage on 2 or 3 jars costs the same as it does for one jar, just saying ;)

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 jar of honey nestling inside.