Local Honey London

Honey from Bee Hut, a family-run beekeeping business based in Northamptonshire, with nine apiaries in the countryside of Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Bee Hut sells only honey from its own hives.

Each apiary has its own forage. The first was at Saxbys Cider, where the bees pollinate the apple orchard in spring and later work a wildflower meadow, sunflowers and pumpkins. Others sit beside a tributary of the Nene at Farndish, near Sites of Special Scientific Interest at Grendon, among chestnut and lime trees near Olney, along the edge of a wood at Stagsden and on a willow meadow at Dadford. The hives themselves are built by Bee Hut, based on the British National design, from FSC-certified timber.

Alongside honey they make beeswax candles from their own wax or wax from other beekeepers, and rear their own queen bees. You can sponsor a bee, a queen or a whole hive, and landowners and farmers can offer sites for new apiaries. Honey and beeswax are sold through their online shop for delivery; the London address on this listing is the company's registered office, not somewhere to buy honey.