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103 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3XB

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Dale Gibson
Beekeeping and Apis Consulting
dale@bermondseystreetbees.co.uk

@bstreetbees
@bermondseybees
@apisconsult

Please note that we do not offer swarm collection services.
Visit bbka.org.uk/swarm for your nearest collector.

Sarah Wyndham Lewis
Press, Events, Sales, Honey Sommelier
Tel: 07836 592415
sarah@bermondseystreetbees.co.uk

@sarahwyndham.lewis
@plantingforhoneybees
@honeysommelierlondon

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Here’s 103kg of our 2-star Great Taste Award Cus

Here’s 103kg of our 2-star Great Taste Award Custom House Honey delivered to @beecollectivelondon (where the bunting is always flying!) for a client. We’re proud to have been part of the crowdfunding of this volunteer-powered social enterprise, founded by ecologist Caroline Birchall. #sustainablebeekeeping #beecollective #pavlintheboss #carolinequeenbee #bermondseystreetbees #customhousehoney #twostars #103kg #honeydelivery #ecology

London leaning into the weekend. #towerbridge

London leaning into the weekend.
#towerbridge

Repost • @sarahwyndham.lewis . Wonderful feature

Repost • @sarahwyndham.lewis .
Wonderful feature by @gabykoppel on @bstreetbees and @honeysommelierlondon in the Jewish Chronicle’s Rosh Hashanah edition last weekend.
Honey has a profound role within Jewish culture, and the lives of countless other peoples through history - from the Mayans to the ancient Egyptians, Romans and Greeks, Druids, Celts, worshippers of Mithras and ultimately both Islam and the Christian church.
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@thejewishchronicle
#roshhashana #rawhoney #realhoney #festivalfood #wholefood #realfood #religiousceremony #foodofthegods

As Summer slips into Autumn, here’s a last look

As Summer slips into Autumn, here’s a last look at one of our blue-marked 2020 queens. (A dab of colour on the thorax does not harm the bee). Young, vigorous queen bees are key to successful colony development. For information only, white is the queen-marking colour for 2021. #sustainablebeekeeping #bluequeen #whitequeen #queenbreeding #autumnal #bermondseystreetbees #honeysommelierlondon #plantingforhoneybees #thorax

A 3-star rating in the @guildoffinefood Great Tast

A 3-star rating in the @guildoffinefood Great Taste Awards is a rarity (just 205 out of 12,777 entries this year, or 1.6%).

Today 3 of our honeys were awarded 3-stars!

Our range of raw, characterful English honeys consistently tops the ratings.

Check out our bermondseystreetbees.co.uk website...
#greattasteswardwinner #greattastewards #3stars #top1.6% #trinity #guildoffinefood #starquality #rawhoney #realhoney #bermondseystreethoney #royalalbertdockhoney #exmoorwildflowerhoney #wedogreattaste #chefshoney #baristahoney #restauranthoney #consistentwinners

Ivy is a great resource for bees at this time of y

Ivy is a great resource for bees at this time of year. Ivy pollen is attractively honey-coloured, yet Ivy honey’s as rock-hard as Kendal Mint Cake & (some say) smells of cat pee, but the overwintering bees thrive on it (inconveniently it requires a tot of water to make it digestible). #ivyhoney #ivypollen #sustainablebeekeeping #ivy #justaddwater #plantingforhoneybees #honeysommelierlondon #bermondseystreetbees

Today’s @thetimes rates our Exmoor Wildflower Ho

Today’s @thetimes rates our Exmoor Wildflower Honey as one of their “Top 50 Foods.”

We’re delighted that one of our range of raw, artisan English honeys has been placed at the pinnacle of British food.

Available at our stall at the Bermondsey Street Festival 11am-6pm today!

#honey #bermondseystreetfestival #sustainablebeekeeping #plantingforhoneybees #delicious

Our bees work hard all year to produce honey. So w

Our bees work hard all year to produce honey. So why do so few beekeepers enter their honey in Honey Shows? On 23rd September, I’m zooming with the Cambridge BKA to de-mystify the prepping of honey. (See bio for link to free registration). #honeyshow #demystification #honeyprep #howitsdone #honey #honeyjar #awardwinninghoney

Our Bermondsey Street Honey won “Best Honey in L

Our Bermondsey Street Honey won “Best Honey in London” @nationalhoneyshow in 2019. It also won the top 3-stars in the 2019 Great Taste Awards @guildoffinefood . Smashing!

We will be selling it on Saturday 29th at the Bermondsey Street (Socially- Distanced) Festival @bermondsstfest

A raw, local, London delicacy....

#sustainablebeekeeping #bermondseystreethoney #bermondseybees #bermondseystreetbees #besthoneyinlondon

Stepping away from Honey HQ for a deferred “summ

Stepping away from Honey HQ for a deferred “summer holiday” at the end of the beekeeping season, we popped up with Simon & Tina @thenoblebee in the New Forest. Last-day-of-holiday whimsy perhaps, but it occurred to me that if I were a bee, this would pretty much be my ideal spot. #bermondseystreetbees #sustainablebeekeeping #thenoblebee #newforest #plantingforhoneybees #honeysommelierlondon #sarahwyndhamlewis #

Api-paparazzo. #sustainablebeekeeping #bermondseys

Api-paparazzo. #sustainablebeekeeping #bermondseystreetbees #paparazzo #ladywholunches #

Repost • @honeysommelierlondon *** Happy Birth

Beekeeping break on the South Downs with wet dogs,

Beekeeping break on the South Downs with wet dogs, Victoria Sponge and a flapjack on Seaford Bay esplanade. None of us knows where the future will take us, but here’s not a bad place to start from...

Saying “sayonara” to the last of the new 2020

Saying “sayonara” to the last of the new 2020 Queens from our Breeding Station, as she graduates from her shoe-box-sized Kieler nucleus to head up an entire colony of 40,000 bees. We breed our Queens for calm temperament, low swarming propensity and, finally, honey productivity. #sustainablebeekeeping #queenrearing #londonqueens #graduation #bluedotqueen #nicecomb #beginningoftermfeeling

Bee in a sea of sedum. #sustainablebeekeeping #lat

Bee in a sea of sedum. #sustainablebeekeeping #lateforage #pink #besidethesedumside #prettyinpink #wilmington

Bees were right as rain when checked by our Season

Bees were right as rain when checked by our Seasonal Bee Inspector a fortnight ago. Now 80% of hive carpeting the floor with suspected poisoning (no signs of predator action, disease or starvation). Queen alive, hive fed & strengthened. Sample sent to National Bee Unit for analysis. #dismay #suspectedpoisoning #nationalbeeunit #analysis #sadendofseason

Wowed that a member of the public spotted that one

Wowed that a member of the public spotted that one of our empty store-stacks in @YourRoyalDocks had been toppled over by high winds & then took the trouble to find my e-mail online & send me a message & a photo of the site, in case the bees were in trouble....God bless you, sir! #sustainablebeekeeping #tombill #gratitude #beekeeping #takingthetrouble #muchmorethanlipservice #bravo

‪Tune into @talkradiouk at 12.30pm today to hear

‪Tune into @talkradiouk at 12.30pm today to hear me talk about bees and beekeeping with @mike_graham25_ . ‬

‪Our bees are busy on snowberry, revived by the

‪Our bees are busy on snowberry, revived by the first drops of rain to have fallen for several weeks. This is the second flowering for this patch of snowberry, after it was cut back in May. Just as well, since the National Bee Unit yesterday issued a “starvation warning” for honeybees!‬ #snowberry #sustainablebeekeeping #bermondseystreetbees #bermondseybees #tannerstreetpark #starvationwarning #drought #secondflowering

‪A routine inspection of the bees at Portobello

‪A routine inspection of the bees at Portobello Dock by our Seasonal Bee Inspector - all in excellent health, the perfect ambassadors at this amazing location for @stevieparle ‘s new restaurant venue.

Despite lockdown, enterprising spirits are rising through the uncertainty. Bravo!‬

#enterprisingspirits #bermondseystreetbees #sustainablebeekeeping #beeinspector #cleanbillofhealth #portobellodock #stevieparle #duckweed #canalsidebees

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