Local Honey Bathgate

Single-source Scottish honey from Honeyman Honey in Bathgate, West Lothian, a beekeeping business that sells unblended honey from its own bees alongside a small range of imported honeys. The name recalls the owner's ancestral clan, the Honeymen, who kept bee skeps for Scottish abbeys in medieval times.

The Scottish range includes Original, a mild spring honey; Reserve, a darker summer honey with a piece of comb in every jar; a raw soft-set honey from spring fields near Kirknewton, west of Edinburgh; and a heather honey from the hills around Loch Lomond. None of it is blended, filtered or pasteurised.

Under a 'Taste of the World' label they also sell honeys from other countries – Ukrainian buckwheat, Hungarian acacia and a Chinese jujube honey from traditional log hives – which are tested in the UK before sale.

Other products include hand-poured beeswax candles scented with essential oils and Apex, a honey-based sports product. Honeyman also runs bee experiences at its apiaries, where visitors suit up and meet the colonies, and collects honeybee swarms and removes bee and wasp nests without chemicals. Everything can be ordered online for UK delivery.