The farmer sows a mixture of wildflowers on the headlands every year and also fields of phacelia as a natural nitrate fixer for the land, avoiding as much as possible putting other nitrates into the ground.

Our bees profit from these headlands and phacelia.

There is also an abundance of hedgerows around the fields as well as field beans and oilseed rape.

Due to the variety of crops, remove the oilseed rape honey first, using it for our soft set honey, then we can have the field bean honey separate and the phacelia separate. There is always a good variety of flavours in this honey and it varies throughout the season.

Often we get honeydew honey from this site and bottle it separately as this is a sought after type of honey for some.