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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Sep 7

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.

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Sep 5

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.

Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Aug 21

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.

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Aug 17

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?

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Aug 14

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. 🐝

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Aug 3

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jul 25

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!

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jul 20

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.

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jul 17

I failed these bees.

Sometimes our best just isn’t good enough.

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jul 14

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.

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jul 11

Enthusiasm for putting on a bee suit is low today

Anyone else skulking in the shade?

#londonbeekeeper #londonheatwave

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jul 7

Rainy day - still plenty to do

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jul 2

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.

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jun 28

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.

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jun 27

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.

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jun 22

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

Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jun 21

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

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Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jun 21

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

Highgate Honey - Helen Rogers @highgatehoney.bsky.social · Jun 20

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

Little miracles 🐝

#londonhoney

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