Honey and other products from our hives

Honey bees provide a number of materials that are useful in our everyday lives. At Brightwell Bees, we not only gather honey, but also make use of the surplus beeswax. All our honey is local, and comes from our own hives in Oxfordshire and West Berkshire. We harvest spring honey from the honeycomb in May, and harvest again during late July for summer honey. We have both clear "runny" honey and delicious soft set honey,

If you want to find out more about the differences (or not) between runny and set honey read more here.

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Our beeswax comes from the wax cell cappings which is produced when we uncap honey frames before honey extraction. Beeswax has a multitude of uses, and whilst it is frequently used to make fine candles, it is also widely used in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and wood furniture polish.

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