Local Honey Boxford, Sudbury

Raw Suffolk honey from Number Eighteen, a family beekeeping business in Boxford, near Sudbury, run by Trudi, Rich, Beckett and Orla Wild.

All the honey comes from their own apiaries in and around Boxford, where the bees work village gardens, arable fields, sweet chestnut and lime trees, local apple orchards and a nearby organic essential-oils farm. It is harvested twice a year, in spring and late summer, extracted by hand, left unheated and only coarse filtered, and batches are never mixed, so each jar can be traced back to a single hive. As well as wildflower runny honey and soft-set honey there are limited-edition borage, lime and chestnut honeys, cut comb in honey, a cold-smoked chilli honey and a honey infused with ginger, turmeric and black pepper. The wildflower honey and the ginger, turmeric and black pepper honey have each won two stars at the Great Taste Awards.

Beyond honey they make beeswax candles, lip balms, beeswax food wraps, polishes and pet balms, plus gift sets, personalised honey wedding favours and teacher presents.

You can buy at the door at their main apiary, 18 Stone Street in Boxford, order online for delivery, find them at markets and events around the region, or pick up a jar from farm shops and delis across Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex. They are also registered swarm collectors and will remove swarms without charge.