Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers

With monotonous regularity someone tests lots of supermarket honeys and discovers that most of them have been adulterated.

If you want to know what real honey tastes like, try ours. It’s all from our own hives, 100% natural with nothing added to it. It’s how honey should be.

One of the best ways to look after bees is to plant more flowers for them to feed on.

Now is a great time to get organised and buy your spring bulbs like crocus and aconites.

If you’d like more ideas then get yourself a copy of my book 80 Flowers for Bees - it’s available from our website shop.

We’ve got plenty of London honey in stock if you need to stock up!
Order on our website

The bees have been working all summer to fill these frames with nectar — and now comes the moment we’ve all been waiting for: the honey harvest 🍯🐝

2025 London honey harvest is now available from our website shop.

The best way to enjoy honey?

Cut comb honey has to be the most natural way to eat honey - still in the beeswax comb that the bees have made themselves.

The only question is: do you swallow or spit out the wax?

Our roof top hives have had a good season 🎉 .

We’ll take these ones down to ground level for the colder months - they are just too exposed on this building over winter. 🥶

The bee’s wellbeing is always the most important thing. 🐝

Drop us a DM if you’d like to know when our London cut comb honey is ready

Our London cut comb honey is really special

We can only produce a very limited amount each year - when it’s gone, it’s gone.

If you’d like to know as soon as it’s ready, then drop us a DM and we will send you an email when it’s in our shop.

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How do you know where our London bees are foraging?

Sometimes you just need to look at them to know!

Most of our London honey is so complex that it’s difficult to tell which flowers the bees have been visiting, but sometimes the bees give us a clue like this!

There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes looking after our London bees.

People are always very surprised to meet a beekeeper in London!

We extract honey from our London hives in small batches.

Each batch has different tastes and flavours, depending on which flowers our bees have been foraging on.

Real honey is as varied as different cheeses or wines - bland, consistent honey isn’t genuine honey.

I failed these bees.

Sometimes our best just isn’t good enough.

If it’s got our label on it then it’s come from one of our London hives.

We don’t buy in honey from middle men or honey packers.

Enthusiasm for putting on a bee suit is low today

Anyone else skulking in the shade?

#londonbeekeeper #londonheatwave

Rainy day - still plenty to do

We wont compromise on quality or price.

Please don’t try and haggle with us or try and tell us how much we should sell honey for.

We know what it takes for us to produce a jar of honey.

Nothing goes to waste from our hives

Beeswax is the amazing material that honey bees make from their own bodies

We collect every scrap and use it to make our soaps and candles

Honeycomb is a brilliant storage system

Bees use it to store pollen, nectar and even baby bees!

The different colours of pollen tell us which flowers the bees have been visiting.

Glorious London Honey 🍯 😋

Opening the honey gate on our extractor never gets old!

We are bringing in beautiful light spring honey from all our apiaries at the moment.

The photographer @maiseybruno came to take some pictures of me working our Finchley hives a few weeks ago and she kindly shared what she captured.

#londonfood #localproducers

I always like to hear how the businesses use the London honey - it gets used as prizes, sold for charity and dozens of other things.

#londonbeekeeper

I always like to hear how the businesses use the London honey - it gets used as prizes, sold for charity and dozens of other things.

#londonbeekeeper

Apparently a honeybee can visit up to 5000 flowers in one day

Little miracles 🐝

#londonhoney

When you have a hive open you can’t really think about anything else - my focus needs to be on the bees.

Keeping bees in a city has extra challenges.
But the bees thrive and the honey is amazing

Every drop of our London honey is precious!

We take great care to make sure that it gets to you in the best possible condition. We don’t fine filter it or over heat it. It’s as nature intended.

#londonhoney #londonbeekeeper

Bigger honey producers have fancy machines to do this, but we keep things simple and do it by hand.

It’s a good chance to take some time to see what type of honey the bees have produced and appreciate the delicious smells of our London honey.

#londonbeekeeper #londonlife

This young queen is on a mission!

We breed some queens every year for our hives and it’s always wonderful seeing them marching around ♥️