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 sample submitted in September 2019 is 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 no longer suffer.