Local Honey Bradford

Honey from Outback Beez, a family-run beekeeping business in Liversedge, West Yorkshire, run by beekeeper Richard Terry.

Richard started nearly 18 years ago with two or three hives at Hollybank Trust in Mirfield. The bees now live at sites across the area, including Oakwell Hall in Birstall, Ponderosa in Heckmondwike, Pugneys in Wakefield and Dewsbury Golf Course. The honey range changes with the seasons, with spring, summer and autumn honeys. Alongside these are lime blossom, borage, buckwheat and Yorkshire Red (a heather and wildflower honey), plus ginger and turmeric honey and a hot chilli honey. They also make honey soaps in a range of scents, a honey and goat's milk soap, beeswax lip balms and wax melts.

Richard runs informal beekeeping experiences at their West Yorkshire apiaries, where visitors suit up and look inside a hive. He is a member of Bradford Beekeepers Association and a BBKA swarm collector, and collects honeybee swarms free of charge. He doesn't deal with bumblebees, wasps or bees in wall cavities.

You can order online for collection in Liversedge or local delivery. The honey is also sold by shops, butchers and cafés around Yorkshire: the Oakwell Hall shop, Yorkshire Makers and Fairweather Butchers in Mirfield, Hopkins Butchers in Birkenshaw, Blend Cafe Bar in Cleckheaton, Strada Cafe in Heckmondwike, The Veg Shop in Brighouse and Nature Emporium at Morley Market. Further afield, it's stocked in Pateley Bridge and Whitby.