Welcome to Collingtree Park Honey

Honey bees make honey from the nectar of flowers. They suck up the nectar with their proboscis (tongue) and carry the nectar back to the hive in their stomachs where they then pass it to other worker bees who take it and store it in cells they have made themselves with beeswax produced from their own wax glands. The water is evaporated out of the nectar by the bees fanning the honeycomb with their wings. When the honey is ready each individual cell is sealed with a white beeswax capping. 

You may wonder why our honey can vary in taste and colour from jar to jar. This is because the flavour and colour of the honey depends on the floral nectar source and can vary between locations and even between hives which are side by side in the same apiary. The honey from our apiary is not blended so that you can be sure that the honey you buy from us is local to Collingtree Park.

Collingtree Park is a Golf Course with houses around it.  Our apiary is sited in our garden adjacent to the Golf Course.  Bees can forage within a radius of three miles (five kilometres).  Analysis of our honey samples submitted in September 2019 and September 2020 are shown below.

If you suffer with allergies, especially hay fever, you can benefit from taking honey every day. As the bees collect the nectar from the plants they also collect the pollen. Some of the pollen ends up in the honey but as the pollen amount is so small it does not bring on symptoms but instead acts in the same way a vaccination does by building up the body's own immune defence so that when its hay fever time your body has its own defence ready and you suffer less. 

Our 2021 honey is clear when bottled, however, it may harden/thicken because it is pure English honey.  The hardening, granulation, or crystallisation of our honey is a characteristic of the purity of our honey and this is a natural process.  To restore it to its liquid state please see instructions on jar and above.  The colour and consistency may vary depending on forage available.  

Our honey is not blended, nor pasteurised (not heated), or hyper-filtered.  It can also be referred to as 'raw' honey.  It is simply strained to remove the wax particles of the honeycomb.  

Available as 1 pound (454 gm)  jar of honey for £6.00 each for collection from 35 Augusta Avenue, Northampton NN4 0XP (For map please scroll down).  Payment can be made either cash on collection or by bank transfer before collection. For bank and delivery/mail order details please see below.

Once payment has been made to our bank account or if it is a cash payment on collection please email us on: honey@collingtreeparkhoney.com to arrange suitable day for collection.  Collection is between 4 and 5 pm on most afternoons.  Collection from 35 Augusta Avenue, Northampton, NN4 0XP (For map please scroll down.

Payment can be made by bank transfer (BACS) to our bank account:

Account Name: R Raja  Bank: NatWest

Sort Code: 60-15-55

Account No: 7793 7139

Please quote your name as Reference

We can supply a pack of 4 jars (454 gm each) of honey to a UK address inclusive of postage and packing for £34.00.  Once you have made payment to our bank account (details above) please email us on: honey@collingtreeparkhoney.com your name and address.