Dan’s Bees & Honey
My bees are located across the city of Bath and in my home apiary in the Chew Valley.
The city bees benefit from a wide variety of plants in flower throughout the year in the plentiful gardens of Bath, and forage on trees found in the Georgian Landscape. At just a couple of miles across the bees also have access to the countryside beyond to forage on hedgerows meadows and crops.
When harvesting honey from my colonies I treat the honey with the upmost care it deserves. To avoid anything detrimental to the quality and flavour of the honey. I uncap and extract frames in small batches to preserve the unique flavour and aroma from each location at different times of the year. My honey is cold filtered through a fine mesh to remove any stray fragments of wax comb, but leave fine traces of pollen for your enjoyment and nutrition.
Lot 241 was foraged by the bees across the city in early summer, harvested on the 12th July 2024 & extracted shortly after. This honey is a exquisite example of how locally produced honey can reflect the flavour of season as the bees gorge on flowers in bloom. This honey has a fresh, light, slightly minty taste, almost refreshing when eaten by the spoon full, not something that many honeys can boast. With a slight green tinge it is likely the bees were busy foraging mainly on the Lime (AKA Linden or Basswood) trees which stand proud across the City, if you strolled through Queens Square or along Royal Avenue in July & August and wondered what that wonderful aroma was, you were in the company of many thousands of bees busy in the treetops overhead. Lot 242 was harvested slightly later in the year but shares similar credentials. Enjoy!
