Just Bee Honey Blog

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...

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...