Local Honey Kidderminster

Raw local honey from Bee Kind Honey, a small beekeeping business with apiaries in Kidderminster and Chaddesley Corbett in north Worcestershire. The honey goes from the hive into the jar with minimal straining and nothing added.

The beekeeper trained on the beginners' course run by Hagley and Stourbridge Beekeeping Association, and the first colony arrived as a swarm that moved into an empty hive in the garden on World Bee Day 2024. Honey is harvested by season. Spring honey, taken in May, comes from fruit blossom, hawthorn, blackthorn and oilseed rape and has a sweet, toffee-like flavour; summer honey, from blackberry, lime trees and clover, is floral with a hint of mint. There is also chunk honey – summer honey with a piece of comb cut from the frame – and a spring-and-summer twin pack. The wax cappings from the harvest are cleaned and made into beeswax blocks and candles.

You can order online, find a Bee Kind stall at local markets around Kidderminster and Hagley through the year, or buy from Hodgehill farm shop on the Birmingham Road and The Courtyard by Savva at Kidderminster Town Hall. Part of the money from honey sales goes to mental health charities.