A family honey farm · Holloway Lane, Herefordshire · 41 hives

Holloway

Honey that tastes like the month it was made.

Raw, unheated, never blended.
Kept by the same family since 1987.

Scroll through our year

The honey year — watch it darken

April

Spring Blossom

Hawthorn, apple and dandelion off the orchard next door. It sets thick and creamy, pale as butter, gentle as a Sunday.

Pfund 20 mm · White£8 · 340 g

June

Bramble & Clover

The hedgerows go white with bramble and the bottom field goes pink with clover. Runny, golden, a little floral — our everyday jar.

Pfund 48 mm · Extra light amber£9 · 340 g

August

Late Heather

Twelve hives ride up onto the Black Mountains in the back of Dad's van. They come home with honey thick as jelly — smoky, almost bitter. People drive for this one.

Pfund 95 mm · Amber£13 · 340 g

October

Ivy — not for sale

The last flow of the year. Dark, strong, sets like toffee in the comb. We leave every drop of it in the hives for the bees to winter on.

Pfund 130 mm · Dark amberStays with the bees

This year’s jars

Spring Blossom

Set & creamy · pale · gentle

£8 340 g
Bramble & Clover

Runny · golden · floral

£9 340 g
Late Heather

Thick as jelly · smoky · bold

£13 340 g

Also at the stand: cut comb £15 · beeswax candles from £6 · Ivy’s “emergency” honey sweets £2

hawthorn · apple · dandelion · bramble · white clover · lime · rosebay · borage · heather · ivy ·

We take only what the bees can spare.

Every October the ivy honey stays in the hives. No sugar syrup, no heating, no blending with anyone else’s honey. If a colony has a bad summer, it gets the year off.

Four Holloways and roughly two million bees.

Ruth
Keeps the hives. Has been stung 1,400-odd times and insists on counting.
Dev
Builds the frames, drives the van, and runs the extractor at 5 a.m. so the kitchen smells of wax by breakfast.
Ivy, 11
Names every queen. This year’s include Marigold, Duchess and Big Sandra.
Len, 84
Started it all with two hives in 1987. Still checks the jars at the stand every morning.

The honesty stand

At our gate on Holloway Lane, every day from first light till dark. Jars on the shelf, tin on the post, card reader if you’ve no cash.

Open hive days — first Saturday of the month, May to September. Veils provided. Biscuits not guaranteed.

Holloway Farm, Holloway Lane
Much Dewchurch, Herefordshire HR2 0XX

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