Local Honey Edinburgh

TheSix Honey Co is a family beekeeping operation based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The business takes its name from the family of six who keep bees in their own garden. Father Stephen and eldest son Ewan have completed their Beekeeping Certificates, while the whole family participates in the beekeeping and learning about bee welfare. They describe themselves as Edinburgh's premier local honey company, committed to ethical, environmentally sound and bee welfare-conscious beekeeping. A key part of their ethos is always leaving enough honey in the hive for the bees to survive winter, avoiding over-harvesting. Their honey is processed as minimally as possible: heather honey honeycomb is placed in a muslin bag and cold-pressed using a heather honey press, then settled in a settling tank before jarring. There is no excessive filtering, no pasteurisation, and no heating applied, making their product as close to raw honey as possible under UK definitions. They sell Edinburgh local honey and are active on social media sharing stories from their beekeeping adventures.