Illustration from our jar label: the family and our two whippets standing among heather, foxgloves and poppies, with the hives, Dartmoor tors and the Devon coast behind.

Newton Abbot, South Devon

Pure honey from our bees, in our garden.

Nothing added, nothing taken away. Our bees make it from the gardens, hedges and parks around us. We spin it, strain it and jar it by hand.

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Devon Moors & Coast

75 jars left

from the 2026 summer harvest.
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This year's honey

A jar of Bassitt's Bee Juice held up to the window, the honey glowing amber, with Newton Abbot's green hillside outside.

Devon Moors & Coast

A summer honey from a town garden. What goes in the jar depends on what's flowering within a couple of miles of the hives, and around Newton Abbot that changes month by month.

Spring
Blackthorn, willow, dandelion
May–June
Cotoneaster, garden flowers, clover
July
Lime trees in the parks and streets
Late summer
Bramble, balsam by the Lemon, ivy

100% honey, from our own hives
1lb (454g) jar, £10
May set over time. Warm gently to run it again
Not suitable for infants under 12 months

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Extraction day

From the hive to the jar

Three wooden honey supers stacked on the kitchen range, full of capped comb. — 1Supers off the hiveFull boxes of honey come off the hives and wait in the kitchen. Each one is heavy.

A frame of honeycomb sealed with pale wax cappings, lifted out of a honey super. — 2Capped and readyThe bees seal ripe honey under wax lids. We slice the cappings off to open the cells.

An uncapped frame in the extractor's steel cage, glistening with honey. — 3Spun outThe frames spin in the extractor. Honey flies out of the cells and runs down the drum.

Honey running through a fine sieve into a white bucket fitted with a honey gate. — 4StrainedA fine sieve catches bits of wax. The honey settles in the bucket for a day or two.

Rows of freshly filled honey jars with gold lids lined up on a kitchen worktop, the honey clear and amber. — 5 Into jars. Nothing added, nothing taken away. How honey is made

Hive Mind

Watch the bees forage Newton Abbot

A living map of the town around our hives, with its real streets, gardens, woods and hills. Thousands of bees scout, dance and recruit through a whole year. Zoom in and time slows down to bee speed. Plant something and watch the scouts find it.

It's a model, not a camera: the hive on the map sits near our garden, not in it.

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