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Benefits: Like all raw honeys, Borage honey has antioxidant and anti-bacterial properties. Considered beneficial for respiratory infections, alleviating inflammation, and skin health. In medieval times, infusing Borage into warriors’ drinks was thought to promote courage before battle.

Tasting notes and tips: A beautifully pale honey, it has a delicate sweetness, with soft notes of lemon, and a supple finish. Wonderful with teas and infusions, and to sweeten home-made traditional lemonade. Would also work with natural yogurt and fresh soft cheeses.

Provenance: Also known as Starflower, Borage is a small blue flower, flowering in June – September, it’s rich in nectar and loved by bees. Our Borage honey comes from Essex, southeast England.

Raw honey is not suitable during pregnancy or for children under 12 months old.

Benefits: Considered beneficial for the immune system, better sleep and supports digestion.

Tasting notes and tips: Amber coloured, this honey is sweet and fruity, with soft notes of blackberry and wildflowers. Great for fruit teas and infusions, try with yogurt, porridge or on toasted crumpets and teacakes.

Provenance: The bees forage on bramble flowers across Norfolk, in the east of England, during the summer months, mainly June and July. During this short bramble flowering period, the beekeeper moves his hives to the best blossom sites every 10 days or so.

Raw honey is not suitable during pregnancy or for children under 12 months old.

Available sizes: 340g

Benefits: Like all raw honeys, it is highly antiseptic and anti-inflammatory. Thought to be beneficial for coughs, indigestion and heartburn, as well as inflammation and the circulation.

Tasting notes and tips: Sweet, with dry herbal notes. Try with yogurt, sourdough bread, and with cheeses, including goat’s cheese. Great in a soothing chamomile tea.

Provenance: Made in Spain from Rosemary,  flowering through Spring and the early Summer months.

Raw honey is not suitable during pregnancy or for children under 12 months old.