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Local Raw Honey, Beeswax Candles including Hand-Dipped Beeswax Candles & Beeswax Wraps
NO AIR MILES, JUST BEE MILES
MADE IN HAMPSHIRE, UK
“Honey as the bee intended”
Burton Bees is a small family business and we are beekeepers first and foremost. It is at the heart of all that we do. We currently run 200 hives throughout Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex.
We will only harvest honey which is surplus to the bees' requirements. To do this we leave a whole box of their honey on each of the colonies throughout the year and only harvest surplus honey from the extra boxes that they fill when there is a good flow of nectar.
All our honey is harvested individually from each apiary and sold with the location on the labelling enabling our customers to buy a honey that really is local to them.
We pick all our sites for their unique locations. All have something special for the bees to work.
Some are wildflower meadows, sweet chestnut woodlands, orchards, lime avenues, ivy etc. each season we also take around 40 - 50 hives to the New Forest where we harvest a crop of heather honey for which we have won National Honey Show awards.
All our wax products are made from our own beeswax from the cappings of the extracted honey and old honeycombs that we have to replace when necessary. We waste nothing.
All our Beeswax Candles and other Beeswax products are made by ourselves on a small scale. All are very unique and with the natural aroma of honey.
About our Beeswax Wraps.
Individually Handmade in Hampshire, UK
All our beeswax wraps are individually made using 100% cotton, and As we are the beekeepers, unlike other makers, We only use our own beeswax from our own hives.
Our beeswax wraps are an eco-friendly and sustainable alternative to plastic or foil. They are made from 100% cotton, our own beeswax, natural resin and organic oils. The reusable cloth becomes pliable from the heat of your hands so can be easily moulded to seal and protect food, keeping it fresher for longer, designed to be used over and over again.
We first started making these beeswax wraps as we could see the amount of single-use plastic being used was totally unsustainable. the first wraps introduced to the UK were being imported from as far away as Australia, New Zealand and America thus not as eco-friendly as they should be.
With that in mind, we decided that the easiest way to reduce the carbon footprint of beeswax wraps was to make from a closer source - Hampshire!