Local Honey Bude

Wildflower honey from Pepperpot Honey, run by Phil and Kat Pepper, who keep bees in north Cornwall near Bude and started selling their honey in 2020.

All the honey comes from their own bees, in apiaries within a few miles of home in an area with little arable farming, so the bees work meadows and hedgerows through spring, summer and autumn. It is coarse filtered to keep the pollen in and never pasteurised or heat treated, and comes as runny, creamed and chunky honey. The bees are locally adapted, near-native stock, and the colonies are kept without chemical treatments.

They also make 100% beeswax candles in their workshop, Kat makes fabric gifts, and gift boxes combine honey, candles and a honey dipper. You can buy online for UK delivery or from shops around Bude and Kilkhampton: Kilkhampton Post Office, Kilkhampton Spar, the Little Pig Farm Shop on the A39 and Nanny Wendy's Fudge Kitchen in Bude.

Phil and Kat also run a half-day beekeeping experience and a one-day beginners' course with their own bees, for groups of up to six.