Honey production is very much dependent on nature. Bees produce honey, and indeed wax, from nectar from flowering plants.

Some years have a much greater overall nectar flow than others. Equally, some plants will produce far more nectar one year to the next; therefore honey from the same apiaries can be substantially different year to year, not only in flavour but sometimes quantity.

Different flowering species produce very different tasting honeys, and so each year’s crops will vary from the others depending on the ratios the bees have foraged. Indeed, each hive in an individual apiary can produce vastly different honeys from their neighbours.

For practicalities’ sake, we combine all the hives from each apiary into a batch when cropping.