Keld Top, 412 m
Ling heather honey
£11
500 g jar 4.9 (486)Pressed from the comb after the bees work the open moor in August. Deep amber, set like a soft jelly, with a smell of warm heather and toffee.
Tastes of Toffee, warm heather, a slightly bitter finish.
- Raw and unblended. Never heated above hive temperature, never mixed across apiaries. Each jar says which site it came from.
- Same-day dispatch. Order before 1 pm and it leaves the honey house that afternoon, wrapped in kraft and wool, not plastic.
- Arrives whole or free. If a jar reaches you cracked or leaking, send a photo and we send another. No return needed.
Details
- Forage
- Ling heather (Calluna vulgaris), bell heather, bilberry
- Harvest
- Third week of September
- Texture
- Thixotropic, sets to a soft jelly, cloudy with fine air
- Water content
- 17.4 %
- Keeps
- Two years in a cool, dark cupboard
Delivery
Orders before 1 pm ship the same day, Monday to Friday. Tracked delivery is £4.50 to mainland UK and free on orders over £35. Jars are packed in kraft paper and wool, with no plastic.
Storing raw honey
Keep it in a cupboard, not the fridge. If it sets, stand the closed jar in warm water for twenty minutes. Not suitable for babies under twelve months.
About this honey
Heather honey is the one people drive out to the honey house for. The colonies go up to Keld Top in the second week of August, when the moor turns purple, and come down in late September with whatever the weather has allowed.
It cannot be spun. Heather honey sets to a jelly in the cell, so every frame is cut out and pressed by hand, which is why the jar is 500 g rather than a pound and why it costs what it does. The tiny bubbles that make it look cloudy are part of it: they are the honey’s own structure, not a fault.
In a wet August there is none at all. When it sells out, it is gone until the next season.
“The heather honey is the only one my father says tastes like the hills he grew up on. It arrives set like a jelly, exactly as the note in the box said it would.”
From the same honey house
