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Raw Honey

Wild forest honey, unheated and unfiltered.

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The method

How raw forest honey is collected

Wild multiflora honey is taken from forest colonies that are never moved to follow a crop, strained cold rather than heated, and left to set on its own. Heating would clear it and cost it the enzymes and aroma worth paying for.

  1. Bees working wild forest flowers

    Step 1 of 4

    The colonies are left where they are

    Wild colonies are not carted between orchards to follow a bloom. Whatever the forest is flowering that month is what ends up in the jar, which is why no two harvests taste alike.

    Wild multiflora

  2. Capped honeycomb being cut by hand

    Step 2 of 4

    Comb is cut by hand, never pressed

    Only capped comb is taken, and never all of it — the colony keeps what it needs to get through the cold months. Pressing the whole frame would take brood and pollen with it.

    Capped comb only

  3. Honey being strained through a coarse mesh

    Step 3 of 4

    It is strained cold

    Passed through a coarse mesh to take out wax and nothing finer. Commercial honey is heated to make it pour clear and stay liquid on a shelf; that heat is what costs it its enzymes.

    Never warmed

  4. Honey settling in a glass jar

    Step 4 of 4

    It settles, is jarred and is tested

    Left to stand so trapped air rises, then poured into glass. A sample from every harvest goes to a laboratory before any jar ships.

    One lab report per harvest

Before you order

Questions about this

Why has my honey turned solid?

Because it is raw. Honey that has not been heated crystallises on its own, faster in the cold, and that is the clearest sign it has been left alone. Stand the jar in warm water for a few minutes if you want it runny again — do not microwave it.

Is the honey pure, and how would I know?

Every harvest is tested for added sugar using the C4 sugar test, along with moisture and antibiotic residue, and the report is published against the batch code on your jar. Cheap honey is commonly cut with syrup, and that test is the one that catches it.

Why does the flavour change between jars?

Because the colonies are not moved to follow a crop. What the forest is flowering that month is what the bees bring in, so a spring harvest tastes nothing like an autumn one. Commercial honey is blended to a single profile on purpose; we do not do that.

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