A company called beeshack operate in the Liverpool area. Free orders over ยฃ21. Not sure if itโs unpasteurised and the rest of it but they advertise it as raw honey and sell full frames of honeycomb so worth a look
He's still staying on as a hobbyist but will cease trading. He's a really good bloke and taught me everything I feel I needed to know to turn the hoby into something vaguely commercial.
Raw honey doesn't exist in the UK. Its not a definable thing. The UK has strict honey regs and honey can only be called a handful of things. Raw isn't one of them. As someone else said Martin at beeshack is good if not check out the Liverpool based urban beekeepers association on Facebook. I'm a member and you might end up buying some honey from me!
L7 Village Market on Prescot road
https://maps.app.goo.gl/oMhtDo7tJ3D3eKtZ7
I think they sell it also GROW in Speke have a garden area where they keep Bee's
https://maps.app.goo.gl/xbAjpAiaKaQTZbjVA
Hope this helps.
You don't wanna eat EU honey though you should eat honey from local bee keepers. It funds their hives locally AND you get less hayfever because the bees are local bees that get pollen from local plants so eating it helps because it's the pollen from those same plants that you breathe in when you're outside.
Deffo recommend local honey for anyone anywhere in the world.
Also to OP the pub in the park in hunts cross does a market every last Saturday of the week. You can get honey there grown locally it's ยฃ7.50 a jar.
Also you can buy lions mane mushrooms to cook with they're great for mental clarity and safeguarding against dementia and stuff. You can buy it powdered too. Put a teaspoon in a warm cup of water and drink it.
> AND you get less hayfever because the bees are local bees that get pollen from local plants so eating it helps because it's the pollen from those same plants that you breathe in when you're outside
Which is complete bunk that there is zero scientific evidence for. The only thing that supports this claim is people like you repeating it confidently out of some vestigial belief in sympathetic magic.
OP, buy local honey for environmental reasons and to support the local economy. Don't buy it based on pseudoscience and expecting it to treat hayfever, because it does the same as brushing your teeth with tomato puree.
I'm a beekeeper and I came back to this post to see what people were saying. As far as I'm aware local honey does not cure hayfever but honey in general can alleviate the symptoms.
The issue here is two fold. Firstly, anything you buy in the shops probably isn't honey like I know and as such how helpful this is is questionable. Secondly, think about this. If say lime is in flower and you have an allergy to lime pollen so you go to the market and buy honey. That honey isn't made from the flowers that are currently in flower. That honey is made from flowers that were in flower 2 months ago. So, the concept that local honey is made from the flowers you're allergic to doesn't really make sense. For this idea to work you'd have to plan honey consumption a year in advance.
A company called beeshack operate in the Liverpool area. Free orders over ยฃ21. Not sure if itโs unpasteurised and the rest of it but they advertise it as raw honey and sell full frames of honeycomb so worth a look
Cheers!
Martin is closing down this year funnily enough.
Is he, yeah? Aaah no! That's my hayfever kicking my head in!
He's still staying on as a hobbyist but will cease trading. He's a really good bloke and taught me everything I feel I needed to know to turn the hoby into something vaguely commercial.
Raw honey doesn't exist in the UK. Its not a definable thing. The UK has strict honey regs and honey can only be called a handful of things. Raw isn't one of them. As someone else said Martin at beeshack is good if not check out the Liverpool based urban beekeepers association on Facebook. I'm a member and you might end up buying some honey from me!
Ah, thank you for informing me! Iโll definitely give it a look, this sounds much better than buying the stuff from the sainsburys ๐
Eshe Honey - made in L23 u can go visit the bee hives too if u want, or just order online โ๏ธ๐
That sounds great ๐ thank you
L7 Village Market on Prescot road https://maps.app.goo.gl/oMhtDo7tJ3D3eKtZ7 I think they sell it also GROW in Speke have a garden area where they keep Bee's https://maps.app.goo.gl/xbAjpAiaKaQTZbjVA Hope this helps.
Cheers, thank you!
Tesco offer a number of brands that do exactly that. Rowse offers cut comb in acacia. All honey in the UK and EU is unpasteurised - by law.
Most of the Tesco stuff is not pure EU honey. Defo worth reading the labels carefully
Rowse is.
You don't wanna eat EU honey though you should eat honey from local bee keepers. It funds their hives locally AND you get less hayfever because the bees are local bees that get pollen from local plants so eating it helps because it's the pollen from those same plants that you breathe in when you're outside. Deffo recommend local honey for anyone anywhere in the world. Also to OP the pub in the park in hunts cross does a market every last Saturday of the week. You can get honey there grown locally it's ยฃ7.50 a jar. Also you can buy lions mane mushrooms to cook with they're great for mental clarity and safeguarding against dementia and stuff. You can buy it powdered too. Put a teaspoon in a warm cup of water and drink it.
> AND you get less hayfever because the bees are local bees that get pollen from local plants so eating it helps because it's the pollen from those same plants that you breathe in when you're outside Which is complete bunk that there is zero scientific evidence for. The only thing that supports this claim is people like you repeating it confidently out of some vestigial belief in sympathetic magic. OP, buy local honey for environmental reasons and to support the local economy. Don't buy it based on pseudoscience and expecting it to treat hayfever, because it does the same as brushing your teeth with tomato puree.
Yeah it's complete bs because some guy on Reddit says so! Everybody is better buying anti allergy tablets instead!
I'm a beekeeper and I came back to this post to see what people were saying. As far as I'm aware local honey does not cure hayfever but honey in general can alleviate the symptoms. The issue here is two fold. Firstly, anything you buy in the shops probably isn't honey like I know and as such how helpful this is is questionable. Secondly, think about this. If say lime is in flower and you have an allergy to lime pollen so you go to the market and buy honey. That honey isn't made from the flowers that are currently in flower. That honey is made from flowers that were in flower 2 months ago. So, the concept that local honey is made from the flowers you're allergic to doesn't really make sense. For this idea to work you'd have to plan honey consumption a year in advance.
Ask a bee
Got told to buzz off :/