Local Honey Whitstable

Whitstable & Herne Bay Beekeepers is a branch of the Kent Beekeepers Association, supporting bees and beekeepers across Whitstable, Herne Bay, Faversham, Canterbury, and surrounding areas. Members keep apiaries and hives sited from Sittingbourne through to Broomfield near Herne Bay, and their honey is produced entirely from the annual surplus of their own local hives. The association emphasises that, unlike supermarkets, their beekeepers do not supplement stocks with bought-in honey from outside the UK, making their honey genuinely local and small-batch. The branch maintains a teaching apiary on the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent and runs annual beginners' courses with hands-on mentoring. For Summer 2025, multiple individual members have honey available for sale, including Andy Fox, Amanda Lee-Riley, Roger Simpson, Sam Webber, Steve McCardle, Michael Toh, and Julie Coleman (via The Old Farm Shop, Dunkirk). The branch holds monthly meetings on the first Saturday of each month and is active in promoting beekeeping knowledge to both members and the wider public.