Local Honey Bristol

Honey and mead from West Country Honey & Meadery, a husband-and-wife beekeeping business at Redhill in North Somerset. It has grown from a single hive – a Christmas present in 2017 – to several apiaries on farmland, in orchards and on their own land.

The honey includes Somerset blossom honey, soft-set honey, cut comb and whole frames of comb honey, plus 5kg buckets that can only be collected from the shop. They also make mead – traditional, sparkling and flavoured, including cherry, rhubarb, ginger, elderflower and apple – along with beeswax candles, beeswax food wraps, bee pollen, honey marmalades and a chocolate honey spread.

You can buy the full range at their shop and café, the Beekeepers Café at Chancellors Pound in Redhill, open 8.30am to 5pm every day except Monday, or order online for delivery. The café also sells beekeeping equipment, and bees for people starting out.

They run beekeeping experience days and a two-day beekeeping course at their North Somerset apiaries, as well as corporate team days.