Just Bee Honey Blog

Festive Pork & Honey Stuffing and Honey Roasted Parsnips

As a special Christmas treat we are going to give you two recipes this week! Both are perfect accompaniments to any festive meal: delicious honey roasted parsnips and a pork stuffing with honey. I'...

3 Amazing Mocktails To Make With Honey

Mocktails (non-alcoholic cocktails) have become very popular in recent years, especially for people that are looking to reduce their alcohol consumption or need to avoid it on a night out when they...

What The Supermarket Would Look Like Without Bees

We should be in no doubt that the supermarket would look very different without bees. Bees are responsible for pollinating almost 20% of all flowering plant species worldwide and approximately 400 ...

Edible Flowers You Can Use In Your Kitchen

There are many flowers that are edible and some like cauliflower and broccoli we might already be eating quite often, even if we don't really think of them as flowers! If you have a herb garden, th...

What is a swarm and what to do if you see one

You are probably all familiar with the term 'swarm' as a simple collective name for a group of bees.  However it's not entirely accurate to say that most groups of bees you see are 'swarming'. In t...

The Best Public Wildflower Gardens in the UK

This week's blog is a handy guide to some of the best public wildflower gardens that you can visit this summer. We've tried to cover as much of the UK as possible so hopefully there will be one not...

How to make a bee hotel

There are many ways to make a suitable bee hotel for your garden, in this blog we'll show you a couple of different ways that you can create a perfect space for solitary bees to live and breed. Whi...

Top Ways To Use Honey In The Summer

After some cold and wet weather, summer certainly has felt like it's on the way lately with some lovely sunny spring days and a very welcome rise in temperature. There have also been plenty of bees...

The Royal Bees - King Charles III, Bees and Beekeeping

The passing of Queen Elizabeth II last year was a defining moment in the history of our country. Regardless of how you feel about the monarchy as a whole, I think many of us felt a desperate sense ...

The Guardian reporting fake honey

  There was an article on The Guardian last week, reporting that a lot of honey across the UK and Europe contains sugar syrup. Understandably, our customers are concerned about this and expect bet...