Herbert & Co honey bees are crop pollinators first and honey producers second. We only harvest our honey in small batches, when the season is bountiful and the crops our bees are pollinating are in full flower. We make sure plenty of honey is left for our bees to remain strong and healthy.

As a result, we are ‘small-batch’ honey producers. We extract our honey by hand at room temperature, which ensures the honey you eat is as nutritious for you as it is for the bees in our hives.

Some of our honey is bottled straight from the honeycomb, without being filtered. It contains tiny amounts of beeswax, pollen and propolis — all of which have health benefits.

For those who prefer a more refined texture we filter a small amount of our honey through fine stainless steel sieves before it is poured into our Herbert & Co jars.

A natural by-product of the honey extraction process is beeswax — and we don’t want to waste it. At Herbert & Co Honey Bee Products we also make a bespoke range of beeswax products for you, your family, your boots and your bridles (well — really any leather products you want to preserve and protect).

All our beeswax products have been developed using timeless recipes and natural ingredients. We don’t use any petroleum oil-based ingredients in our products — only natural animal and plant waxes and oils.