Just Bee Honey Blog

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...

What's Inside a Beehive?

When we look inside a beehive we hope to find a whole colony of healthy bees and lots of delicious honey! But aside from the obvious have you ever wondered what exactly makes up a beehive and how i...

Why is Honey Better For You Than Sugar?

While it's true that honey and refined sugar do share a similar make-up for the most part (both being largely made up of fructose and glucose sugars) there are some important differences...

Why are bees so important?

As you might have seen in Joe's video blog posted recently, we did some amazing things together last year. Our fantastic customers planting wild-flower seeds all over the UK will no doubt make a re...

Things you've helped us do this year...

Between Christmas and New Year (‘Twixmas’ as we call it in our house) is one of my fave times of the year. The craziness of Christmas is over and there is time to see family and friends, do some lo...

Is Beekeeping Cruel?

People's concerns about practices within the food industry are often completely legitimate. We are all aware that there have been instances of poor practice in almost all areas of farming and food ...