Amazing Bees’ Raw Honey

£9.00

Amazing Bees Raw Honey, unfiltered, unheated Read more…

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Raw honey

We only produce a very limited amount of Honey , demand is high for this quality product, though this is good the best honey you will ever have would come direct from your own hive. So please consider joining my free beekeeping group on WhatsApp, please drop me a message on 07963934594, where I will answer all your beekeeping questions & keep you up to date with any courses I am running. 

Jars weigh a minimum of 340g each.

Postage & Packaging cost the same no matter how many you order, so you get better value when you buy multiple jars also when you buy multiple jars of honey we will select jars from different batches so you can enjoy different flavours and textures, a reflection of the wide range of flowers the bees are foraging on.

Our raw honey is collected from bees who forage in the villages and countryside of The Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley area of natural beauty with its rich diversity of pollens and nectar from flowering trees, meadows, hedgerows and gardens as well as the wild spaces in between.

What is raw honey and how is it special?

Raw honey has undergone minimal processing.  We uncap the honeycomb and place it in a centrifuge to spin the honey out of the cells where the bees stored it. We leave it to settle for 24 hours for the wax to rise and float on top of the honey. Then the unfiltered honey is poured from a tap at the bottom of the bucket straight into your jar, preserving all of the natural flavours from the millions of flowers visited by our bees along with the legendary natural health benefits of honey; some of which come from the antioxidants provided by the plants and others from the enzymes added by the bees.

Most of what is special about raw honey is what is not done to it. Many consumers have a preference for runny honey yet most honey naturally sets (crystallises) within weeks or months of being processed.  

Ironically, many of the processes to ‘purify’ the honey and create a consistent product are designed to prevent crystallisation by removing pollens and other particles that both seed crystallisation and bestow many of the flavours and health benefits of honey upon it. 

In order to slow or prevent this natural crystallisation process, honey is heated and filtered, sometimes with the use of additives such as diatomaceous earth to remove the pollens and any other particles that seed crystallisation. 

Once the pollens have been removed, it is impossible to identify its true origins or tell it apart from honeys adulterated with much cheaper sugar syrups. 

Now less expensive honeys can be blended with speciality honeys to fetch a higher price. 

See this link to a recent EU report that suggests 46% of 320 samples taken by an EU action group were likely adulterated or mislabelled, shockingly all 10 samples of honey blended in the UK and exported to the EU appeared to be adulterated. https://food.ec.europa.eu/safety/eu-agri-food-fraud-network/eu-coordinated-actions/honey-2021-2022_en 

My Personal Tips on Buying Honey:

  1. Don’t buy honey – get it from your own bees!
  2. Get honey from a friend or local beekeeper, preferably in bulk at harvest time. The enzymes are best preserved when honey is frozen but so long as it is kept in an airtight container it should be safe to eat for decades.
  3. Buy specialty honeys from a single region, never buy honey that is blended from multiple countries or continents and never buy cheap runny honey as this is almost certainly mislabelled and in fact overpriced sugar syrup. producing good quality honey is expensive and takes a lot of time – it cannot be done cheaply.
  4. producing good quality honey is expensive and takes a lot of time – it cannot be done cheaply 

To help us reduce waste, rather than buying new boxes for our honey, we are reusing cardboard packaging that has been sent to us.  So don’t be surprised by the unusual package at your doorstep when your honey arrives, just know that you’re preventing unnecessary waste with your natural sweet treat.

Photography by Sheena Pearson. See more of her work at http://sheenapearson.com and sheenapearson.photography on Instagram

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