Skenfrith Wildflower Apiaries

We keep our hives at the edge of hedgerows and old hay meadows around Skenfrith and Grosmont, in the gentle hills where Monmouthshire meets Herefordshire. Every jar is the work of one apiary in one season: never blended, never heat-treated above hive temperature, and cold-strained through muslin so the pollen and the character of the local flora stays in the jar. In spring it is hawthorn, dandelion and apple blossom. By August the hives go up onto the heather on the Black Mountains and the honey turns thick, dark and aromatic. We work the bees ourselves, harvest with a hand-cranked extractor in the old stone barn, and bottle on the kitchen table, which is why every batch tastes a little different from the last.