About us & our products.

We are a small family bee farming 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 honey from the extra boxes that they fill when they have 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 unique for the bees to work, thus producing unique honeys.

Some are wildflower meadows, sweet chestnut woodlands, orchards, lime avenues, ivy etc.  Each season we also take around 35 - 40 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 pure beeswax from the cappings of the extracted honey any honeycombs that we have to replace when necessary.
All our products are made by ourselves on a small scale.  All very unique and with the natural aroma of honey. 

All candles are made with pure beeswax, no artificial scents as the pure beeswax gives a warm  natural “honey” scent.  Beeswax is the purest of waxes and burns brighter and cleaner than other waxes with a clean burn - no black smoke.  Monks used beeswax for their candles as they did not leave any residue on their manuscripts and as they burnt longer and brighter, they were highly prized. Burning beeswax candles puts negative ions into the air which purify and clean the air.  There are no chemicals added to our candles and all colourings are natural.

We have been making our Beeswax Wraps for over 3 years - before they were well known. We pride ourselves in been a market leader with these. We use our own beeswax for our wraps so we have full provinence on our product. and have our designs printed individually for us so our designs are not available elsewhere.

We do offer a bespoke wrap design service. If you have your own logo or design, we can have it printed onto wraps specifically for you. Please contact us for more details. We are happy to discuss. (No order to large). All enquiries to: debbie@burtonbees.co.uk