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Local spring honey available from our hives in Blyth and Morpeth!The spring honey this year is soft set honey.It’s thick...
28/05/2026

Local spring honey available from our hives in Blyth and Morpeth!
The spring honey this year is soft set honey.
It’s thick, creamy and tastes of sunshine.
Why soft set?
This is because the local farmers fields of oil seed r**e have been successful this year (the yellow fields).
OSR (oil seed r**e) has a very high glucose to fructose ratio. Honey is naturally super saturated in sugars, when the glucose ratio is high this causes the honey to crystallise really fast creating a very hard honey.
It’s a royal pain!
To combat this crystallisation we cream the honey breaking down these larger sugar molecules to create a thick smooth honey.
Perfect on toast, in a cuppa etc etc
We heard you wanted options on jar sizes too, so we’ve obliged.
Large jars (340g) are £9
Small jars (160g) are £6

Where can you get our honey?
-Laverock Hall Farm & Bird Food
-L of a Bake
-Whitehouse Farm
-Or myself at 9 Oberon way. A quick note if you do come to myself directly. Please do message first and please do not come to my home with a cold or a cough or any type of snivel! We are a medically complex home and the snivels to you could result in a hospital stay for my child. I am happy to deliver at a safe distance if this is your only option.

Cheers folks! I hope you enjoy!!!

26/05/2026

I’m still in the danger zone, quite a lot of queens have failed to return from mating flights so far this year.
But this one has!
And what a beauty!!

25/05/2026

Too hot!!
Dripping
That is all

Bees in the boot and driving cautiously home. These will be relocated tomorrow in our swarm apiary so they can be health...
21/05/2026

Bees in the boot and driving cautiously home.
These will be relocated tomorrow in our swarm apiary so they can be health checked.
If you do get a swarm in your garden please don’t panic. Simply stay back or go indoors and shut windows. Then give myself or any other beekeeper a call. We can all be found at the link below.
We will collect completely FREE of charge!
I’ll reiterate we DO NOT charge for this service.
It’s fun for us!
Link for swarm collectors in your area:

https://www.bbka.org.uk/find-a-local-swarm-collector?srsltid=AfmBOoqac27zfscstBhECUVMHQCG2JW7UcQY6Gurw6xp-v1hSnGemIJD

Please feel free to message me first though 😃😉

21/05/2026

Seems to have been a swarm type day..
3 swarm calls. 2 flew off before or as I arrived. The third is in the box (pics below).
Nothing makes you a better driver than 20 odd thousand bees in the boot…

Happy world bee day!Today I spent a hour talking to the next generation in a local (ish) school. Then the afternoon was ...
20/05/2026

Happy world bee day!
Today I spent a hour talking to the next generation in a local (ish) school. Then the afternoon was spent beekeeping, helping a few friends with their hives and doing physio (myself and Roo).
It’s been busy

Enid one of our puppies decided she’d eat a bumble bee today…She’s feeling a bit sorry for herself atm, (shes been to th...
16/05/2026

Enid one of our puppies decided she’d eat a bumble bee today…
She’s feeling a bit sorry for herself atm, (shes been to the vets and had some intramuscular antihistamines)

50% success rate on a first try, I’ll take that.Queen cells developing nicely.
15/05/2026

50% success rate on a first try, I’ll take that.
Queen cells developing nicely.

14/05/2026

Something special for you to see today.
This is a new queen emerging from her queen cell.
This is the first time I’ve seen this, and I got to share it with you..
Buzzing!
In other news the bees are really keeping me on my toes.
We’re in the nervous stage of awaiting queens to get mated, the possible June gap, and the grump when the OSR stops providing the goods.
Yes they really do get grumpy when that happens.
I’ve started jarring but im awaiting labels (plus it’s a slow process), so honey will be available very soon!
I do apologise for the wait, trust me though, it’s worth it!!

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