Journal

Pick up your honey in style!

by Gavin Darcy

Pick up your honey in style!

Now you can pickup your honey order, with style in our hand-crafted, beautifully designed Sentry Box, just delivered by Justin from Suffolk Sentry ...

Poppies everwhere!

by Gavin Darcy

Poppies everwhere!

Poppies everywhere down at the apiary!

Swarm!

by Gavin Darcy

Swarm!

Down at the apiary, one of my hives had swarmed, luck to have found it as the weather was closing in. Their all tucked up in a new hive now.

Flexi-Hex packaging

by Gavin Darcy

Flexi-Hex packaging

Trying a new style of packaging, Flexi-Hex packaging, all the green credentials plus the strength of a honeycomb, I wonder where the idea came from...

Winter feeding

by Gavin Darcy

Winter feeding

During Winter it’s important for the health of your bees to make sure they have enough stores. To supplement them I use Baco fondant.

Hand-crafted oak honey dippers

by Gavin Darcy

Hand-crafted oak honey dippers

A wonderful addition to the Honeyspoon store are a selection of hand-crafted, lathe turned honey dippers.

Beautifully finished by sanding and polishing by hand.

Can be purchased with a jar of wildflower honey, the perfect combination.

Food safe, hand wash only.

It’s a ‘super’ day

by Gavin Darcy

It’s a ‘super’ day

Put the three nucleus colonies into full size national hives and added supers.

New ‘bees’

by Gavin Darcy

New ‘bees’

welcoming the addition of three nucleus’s of bees for the apiary.

Going ‘green’

by Gavin Darcy

Going ‘green’

We are changing our packaging to recyclable materials. Packing boxes are now cardboard with shredded wood packing material, in due course the plast...

Knaresborough Station - bee hotel

by Gavin Darcy

Knaresborough Station - bee hotel

Bee hotel at knaresborough railway station  

Bee hotel in Harrogate

by Gavin Darcy

Bee hotel in Harrogate

Lovely bee hotel in Harrogate 

When I’m here...

by Gavin Darcy

When I’m here...

A former colleague and friend dropped by to say hello and to take pictures for... The ‘When I’m here’ series, are short documentary photographic es...