Great places to get some bees for your Buzz Box hive:
Dorset - Jurrasic Bees
Welcome to Jurassic Bees, a small family-run bee farm nestled on the picturesque Jurassic Coast in Dorset.
We are passionate beekeepers, Charlie and Lorraine, dedicated to nurturing healthy, thriving live bees and nucs in Dorset.
Our farm specializes in providing high-quality nucleus colonies and virgin queens, carefully bred to ensure robust and productive hives.
With a deep commitment to sustainable practices and the well-being of our bees, we take pride in offering top-notch products that support both novice and experienced beekeepers alike.
At Jurassic Bees, we treat our bees like family, and we’re excited to share our passion with you.
Essex - Happy Bees
Our beekeeping practices originate from years of experience; passed down through generation to generation in Romania. We’ve kept the important parts of our traditional beekeeping at the top of our list of priorities.
We ensure that our bees are regularly checked for disease and that their care and food sources are exceptional, especially during winter. Our bees are the happiest around and their honey is ethically sourced; this is why we’re called Happy Bees.
Sussex - R & R Bee Company
"Beekeeping has been in our blood for 3 generations, ever since my grandfather, Fred Payne, started keeping bees way back in 1922. The Payne family has been involved in bees ever since and I'm lucky to have grown up being so deeply involved in the journey all my life." Roger Payne
South Wales - Blorenge Mountain Bees
We are a small family Beekeeping business where all our Bees and Hives and Honey are locally produced. We are based around the Blorenge Mountain near Abergavenny, South Wales. We have been keeping bees as a hobby for over 15 years, with the aim of producing hardy, productive bees with a good temperament, with minimal intervention and use of chemical treatments. Our aim is to encourage more people to take up beekeeping as a beneficial and productive hobby. With that in mind are products are priced accordingly. Our bees are selectively bred from our own stocks - we never import bees or queens, and our timber comes from a local sawmill using locally sourced sustainable supplies.
North Wales - Black Mountain Honey
Situated in the foothills of the Clywdian Range Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Black Mountain Honey is one of the leading suppliers of Buckfast Bees and award-winning honey in the UK.
Our reputation is not only built on the consistent and market-leading quality of our honey, queens, and nucleus colonies but is underpinned by our dedicated approach to customer service and knowledge sharing.
Keeping bees isn’t easy, so we are here to help you every step of the way, from the dedicated educational content on our YouTube channel to a variety of communication channels to help support you as a beekeeper. You can contact us by email, WhatsApp, phone or text message. We always respond within 24 hrs – often much sooner.
Scotland - Glen Heather Honey
In 2015, whilst working the day job, my boss caught an interest in the jar of Chilean Rainforest honey on my desk, with its 40+ rating. Enquiring on its cost, after picking himself off the floor, suggested it might be somewhat cheaper to get my own bees (thanks Niels) and pointed me at a local bee association.
In 2016 we got our first two hives in the garden in rural East Kilbride near Glasgow, then six, then 47 then over 100 and so on. It was an addiction to bees and the art of beekeeping. Managing bees is seasonal, even the youngest beekeeper would be lucky to get 70 goes at getting it "right", the theory was the more hives the more experiences in one lifetime.
Glen Heather Honey is my dedication to bees. To create the strongest, healthiest and happiest honey bees, that produce the finest artisan honey in the world.
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