Local Honey Brighton

Raw, unpasteurised honey from The Sussex Beekeeper, a family business in Shoreham-by-Sea with hives across the South Downs, where the bees forage on the national park's wildflowers.

Fynn and Lisa started with a single hive in 2017, after Fynn took a local beekeeping course, and now look after many colonies across Sussex. Each year some colonies are moved to the heathland of the New Forest in Hampshire to make heather honey. The honey is only lightly cold-filtered, and the range covers wildflower, soft-set, heather and hot honey, wildflower and heather cut comb, and beeswax candles and tea lights hand-dipped by Lisa.

Honey can be ordered online, and Lisa delivers to local stockists; shops can apply for a wholesale account. For beekeepers they sell overwintered nucleus colonies and mated Buckfast queens from their own queen-rearing programme, and businesses can sponsor a hive. Their South Downs apiaries can also be hired for film and photo shoots, with a beekeeper on set.