About Black Mountain Honey
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Black Mountain Honey
Situated in the foothills of the Clywdian Range Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Black Mountain Honey is one of the leading suppliers of Buckfast Bees and award-winning honey in the UK.
Our reputation is not only built on the consistent and market-leading quality of our honey, queens, and nucleus colonies but is underpinned by our dedicated approach to customer service and knowledge sharing.
Keeping bees isn’t easy, so we are here to help you every step of the way, from the dedicated educational content on our YouTube channel to a variety of communication channels to help support you as a beekeeper. You can contact us by email, WhatsApp, phone or text message. We always respond within 24 hrs – often much sooner.
We understand that sometimes, urgency is everything. That’s why we offer the latest next-day delivery service for queen bees in the UK. You can place an order up to our 4 pm cut-off for Royal Mail Special Delivery the very next day!
Beekeeping should be enjoyable for everyone. We do not tolerate aggressive bees and work closely with our strategic partners to ensure our queen bees and nucleus colonies are as gentle in nature as they can possibly be.
We pride ourselves on the calm and placid nature of our honey bees, and we focus on this trait above all else. Luckily, our bees are also known to produce a bounteous crop of honey – up to 200 lbs per colony in optimal conditions.
The production of pure, unpasteurised multi-floral honey is as important to us as it has ever been. Our honey is never heated above hive temperature and only coarsely filtered so all vital micronutrients remain in the jar.
Black Mountain Honey is more than just another beekeeping company. We are your steadfast beekeeping companion and offer you an unrivalled view into our professional lives as beekeepers via our YouTube channel. Social media gives us a two-way platform to intimately connect with our customers.
We revel in your successes and take pride in your achievements. We are here for you when you need us most and together, we will succeed as beekeepers.
They should have a 6th star! Thanks so much for being with us the whole journey! BMH are amazing and have been very helpful highly recommend. Thanks for your help, your guidance and on going support. Lets hope we get some honey this year! Cant recommend you highly enough..
Kish Khan
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We are a close-knit, family-based, bee farming business.
Laurence Edwards
Bee Farmer
Helen Bresser
Head of Sales and Marketing
Ivy Bresser-Edwards
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Over Christmas I was having a tidy up, moving stacks of boxes around, when I noticed something that caught my eye... Inside a stack of stored equipment, I found a dead colony of bees. Whenever you find a dead colony, the first thing you should do is not panic. The second thing you should do is investigate properly. So I decided to do a full dead swarm autopsy and work out exactly what had happened. The Configuration Was a Disaster Before even looking inside, the setup itself told a story....
Why Cold Weather Might Be A Blessing For Your Bees
Most beekeepers see snow and frost and immediately worry that their bees are going to starve or struggle. But in the UK in particular, cold weather is usually not the enemy. In fact, cold weather can be a blessing for your bees and can be one of the best things for a colony because it makes winter predictable, and predictable winter is what stops colonies quietly burning through stores and ending up in trouble. In this blog I am going to explain why cold weather helps, what the real winter...
Use A Hard Frost To Kill Wax Moth In Stored Frames With No Chemicals
Wax moth can absolutely ruin a stack of stored brood comb and what makes it worse is that most people only react once they spot the damage, by which point the frames are already on the way out. I want to show you a simple winter trick that costs nothing, uses no chemicals, and works brilliantly if you get a proper hard frost. This is one of those rare moments in beekeeping where nature hands you a free solution. You just have to use it properly. Killing wax moth In a good colony, wax moth is...
How To Mark A Queen Bee
Marking a queen bee is one of those small jobs that makes a huge difference to your beekeeping. Once you know how to mark a queen safely and confidently, everything from finding her on a busy frame to tracking her age and performance becomes much easier. In this blog I will walk you through exactly how I mark a mated queen, the tools I use, and some simple tips to help you avoid common mistakes. If you have ever thought “I can never find my queen” or “I am too nervous about hurting her”,...
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How To Make Natural Beeswax Firelighters From Old Brood Frames
Old brood frames and scrap beeswax can look like a horrible mess, but there is still a lot of value left in them. Once I have rendered out as much wax as I sensibly can, there is often a pile of darker, lower grade wax that I would never use for candles or cosmetics. Instead of throwing it away, I turn it into simple, natural firelighters. In this guide I will walk you through how I make beeswax firelighters using wood wool and recovered wax from old brood frames. This is not about fancy...
How To Render Beeswax Cappings Into Beeswax Blocks
Beeswax cappings are one of the nicest by products of extracting honey. They look and smell fantastic, they are usually much cleaner than old brood comb, and they give you some of the highest quality wax you will ever get from your bees. A lot of beekeepers scrape them off, let them pile up in a tub and never quite get around to dealing with them. That is a shame, because with a simple process you can turn those sticky cappings into clean wax blocks ready for candles, polishes or swapping in...
How I Time My Varroa Treatment Around A Cold Snap To Kill More Mites
Varroa is still the number one health threat to honey bees in the UK. You feel it in spring when colonies that looked fine in autumn come out weak, slow and virus ridden. One of the biggest improvements I have made in my own beekeeping is learning to time winter oxalic acid treatments around a natural brood break, instead of just picking a random date on the calendar. In this guide I will show you how I use the first proper cold snap as a trigger, apply a simple three week rule and then treat...
