Low Leys and Thurlbeck Orchards
Soft-set spring honey
£6.50
340 g jar 4.9 (486)The first honey of the year, from rape and orchard blossom. Stirred for a week until it sets white and smooth as butter.
Tastes of Mild, buttery, a hint of blossom.
- 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
- Oilseed rape, apple and pear blossom, hawthorn
- Harvest
- May, within ten days of the flow ending
- Texture
- Soft-set, spreads straight from the jar
- Water content
- 17.0 %
- Keeps
- Eighteen months; it will not run again and is not meant to
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
Spring honey from rape and blossom sets fast and hard if it is left alone, so we seed it with a little of last year’s set honey and stir it cold for a week. The crystals stay fine and the result is white, smooth and spreadable.
It is the mildest thing we make, and the one to put in a lunchbox.
“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
