Welcome to Read Apiary – an Apiary “a place where bees are kept; a collection of beehives”.
If you’re here because of the web site address on a jar of our honey – thank you for your purchase! I hope you enjoy the taste of quality local honey from beehives in NE Hampshire (UK).
If you bought our honey from a stall, and would like more, we also sell our honey direct from the door – our address is on every jar of honey (see current availability in yellow box below).
I’ve been a beekeeper for over 25 years, and am still learning! Like most UK beekeepers (there’s about 44,000 of us) I manage Honey Bee colonies as a fascinating hobby, with any income made from the sale of honey going to help look after my hives and their honeybee colonies.
Have a browse around the site, there’s lots of beekeeping information available in books and online, so I provide information that’s relevant to the honey you’ve bought from me, my style of beekeeping and anything else that I find interesting!
Interested in beekeeping, and live in NE Hampshire (UK)?
Along with Beekeeping friends, I help run a beekeeping course offered by Fleet & District Beekeepers Association.
A member of a local group, school, club or charity in NE Hampshire, and would like a session about beekeeping?
We offer session to local groups about beekeeping and honeybees.
A local business looking to keep a couple of hives onsite?
Along with a fellow beekeeping friend, I offer a paid for service to manage one or more beehives for you. We look after the colonies, you get the enjoyment and pleasure of active honeybee colonies on your business park/company estate/office site (location would need to be in the NE Hampshire area). You might even get some jars of honey you can give to the staff. Contact me for more information and service cost.
Graham & Catherine
Honey for sale. We currently have 2024 honey for sale. Runny, Set and Chunk Comb (chunks of honeycomb in runny honey), Sold out.
2025. Weather permitting, we’d expect to have some honey again in May – lets hope for a decent spring!
We sell at the door – see the address on any jar of our honey, or you may find us at local fairs, fetes and craft shows.
You can contact us via email on: beekeeper@honey-bee.co.uk, via our Facebook Page, or NextDoor page
