Whatton Apiaries

Whatton Apiaries Professional Beekeeper of 30 years experience supplying local honey, hive products and sale of honey A truly Artisan local product.

Whatton Apiaries

Whatton Apiaries is based on the Whatton estate in North West Leicestershire with the home apiaries in the village of Long Whatton
John Heard has managed honey bee colonies for over 30 years with apiaries sited locally within Charnwood and North West Leicestershire to take full advantage of the varied flora and fauna within our locality to bring varied and interesting local hon

eys to local consumers. All of our product is extracted and bottled in a 4 star food standard facility based in the village of Long Whatton. Our honeys are simply extracted, filtered and blended with no recourse to heat based pasteurisation used in Supermarket honey which destroys the natural enzymes and yeast within the product. We keep the use of heat to a minimum to maintain the quality of our products. We do use electricity within the process but much of the power used is provided by Eco friendly solar panels. We exercise a batch control system which enables us to identify from which apiary and from which extraction every jar of honey is originated. Ours is a unique product brought from flower to jar largely within the confines of the Whatton Estate. We mainly use the “Buckfast” strain of bee originally developed by Brother Adam as his lifetime’s work over a sixty year period at Buckfast Abbey in Devon. Buckfasts are by nature a gentle bee that are entirely attuned to the vagaries of the British climate and do very well in this area. Honey is harvested twice during the beekeeping season. The first crop in June once the fields of oilseed r**e lose their flowers. This crop is very prone to crystallisation and is removed and extracted before this occurs in the comb. The second crop is taken in August as the majority of nectar bearing plants lose their flowers at the end of the Summer. Our hives are then carefully fed and medicated to prepare them for the winter, we always aim to bring 100% of our hives through the Winter and do all we can to achieve this. Hives are kept under close observation during the Winter months to ensure we bring as many colonies as possible through. We care for our bees and do all in our power to maintain their well being and survival.

🍯 Don’t forget you can buy our honey right from our front door in Long Whatton, but we now also post our wares! Our hone...
05/04/2023

🍯 Don’t forget you can buy our honey right from our front door in Long Whatton, but we now also post our wares!

Our honey is 100% natural. We harvest from the hive, filter it to remove any debris, and jar it. It’s that pure.

We have both runny and soft set honey to choose from.

To purchase from the door is £6.50 per jar. To send a parcel we charge £10 for one jar, £17.50 for two, or £33 for 4, which includes P&P (to mainland UK).

Lower prices are available for trade and bulk purchase.

Message us to enquire and order 🌟

10/04/2022

Waste not, want not

This brace comb was removed from one of our hives yesterday, and it contained a good quantity of honey. Not wanting to throw it away, it was placed into this feeder box just outside the apiary, and today the comb is all but empty. Recycling in nature at its best!

Bulk Honey in 14 kg buckets - for any lower volume beekeepers who might be getting low on stocks to keep their customers...
14/02/2021

Bulk Honey in 14 kg buckets - for any lower volume beekeepers who might be getting low on stocks to keep their customers supplied we have plenty of first and second crop honey available in bulk.
Contact us for prices and collection details.

Honey in Bulk

Available for catering or resale honey in bulk in 30lb buckets. Rough filtered only - Spring and Summer crop available. Call / email for prices.

As we approach the festive season (I daren’t say the ‘C’ word just yet...) please think about where your gifts, your foo...
27/10/2020

As we approach the festive season (I daren’t say the ‘C’ word just yet...) please think about where your gifts, your food, your drink, your cards, your clothes come from. Where possible, try to avoid the big chains and franchises, and instead make a small business’ day by opting for their product or service. It could be the difference between them being here next year or not.

🍽 Foodie post! 🍽If you’re local to NW Leicestershire, check out this new business set up by a local professional chef an...
20/10/2020

🍽 Foodie post! 🍽

If you’re local to NW Leicestershire, check out this new business set up by a local professional chef and his family - think meal boxes, but locally sourced and fresh from the suppliers! 🥩 🌽 🥒🍌🍖🥦🍆😋
And at the checkout you can add a jar of our very own honey for your food cupboard - there’s nothing not to like here! 🍯

The Sunday roast box! We had brilliant feedback from everyone who ordered last week. After hearing the feedback from the quality of the food to great value for money and how good the instructions were I would love to get more sent out so you can see for your selves! Get your orders in now for a stress free Sunday roast!

🐝 What can we do collectively to help save the bee? 🐝 What can you do as an individual to help save the bee? Sometimes t...
17/10/2020

🐝 What can we do collectively to help save the bee?

🐝 What can you do as an individual to help save the bee?

Sometimes the simplest of actions can assist our ongoing battle to keep the bee healthy and active, which in turn helps our dying planet.

Drop your ideas in the comments, let’s get sharing!

Honey in BulkAvailable for catering or resale honey in bulk in 30lb buckets. Rough filtered only - Spring and Summer cro...
05/10/2020

Honey in Bulk

Available for catering or resale honey in bulk in 30lb buckets. Rough filtered only - Spring and Summer crop available. Call / email for prices.

13/08/2019

FOR SALE - INVERTBEE BEE FEED SYRUP

That time of year again - stimulatory feeding starts now to keep the queens laying into the late Summer. 5 litres per hive ahead of main feeding in September - 15 kg per hive.

Starts here - available for purchase now.

INVERTBEE BEE FEED SYRUP

Invertbee is a syrup bee feed produced primarily from sugarbeet sugar by
Belgosuc in Belgium. The syrup is inverted by using a protein enzyme which
raises the monosaccharide's to almost 50% of the product, thereby enabling
the bees to digest the syrup much more readily than simply feeding ordinary
sugar solution.

Invertbee has a density of 1.37kg/litre and is therefore a thick syrup and
MUST NOT be diluted with water as this would substantially reduce it’s
nutritional value and storage qualities. It is guaranteed to stay stable in
its original form for 12 months and does not form black mould as with
liquid sugar feed. The bees take it down rapidly as there is no inversion
process for them to complete. It can therefore be fed much later into the
autumn, a 15kg bucket per hive is the standard allowance.

It is also excellent for using as a spring stimulant simply by giving each
full colony one to two litres at a time.

Available now from Whatton Apiaries at £1.00 per kg, collected from
Long Whatton supplied into the purchaser’s own containers.

For details call John Heard

07775 335871
01509 842903
Email [email protected]

August 2019

Bee feed delivery - 8 tonnes fersh from Belgium
13/08/2019

Bee feed delivery - 8 tonnes fersh from Belgium

But the back ground work goes on. Not glamourous but frame recovery by boiling used super and brood frames to make them ...
28/02/2019

But the back ground work goes on. Not glamourous but frame recovery by boiling used super and brood frames to make them re usable with Fresh Foundation is an essential part of Winter preparation for the New season. One of those jobs that waits all Winter to be done. 3 full days at it so far.

The New Season comes early ?It looks like Spring is here - up until today that is - Bees flying as if there was a flow o...
28/02/2019

The New Season comes early ?
It looks like Spring is here - up until today that is - Bees flying as if there was a flow of nectar on.

28/02/2019

2019 OVER-WINTERED NUCLEI

I have a limited number of overwintered 6 frame Nuclei with selected marked Buckfast Queens, from Breeder Queen stock. Available for collection from early April. They are supplied in a Paynes or Maisemore poly nucleus box. The Queens are open mated Buckfast stock grafted from selected Breeder Queens in 2018 supplied by two UK Buckfast Queen Breeders. The nucleus will have a marked 2018 Queen and brood and bees at all stages of development ready to go for the new season. Available on National, and Commercial - (16 x10 )frame sizes. National £200.00 Commercial £220.00

2019 Summer Nuclei. I will also again be offering a limited number of 6 frame Nuclei with 2019 selected and marked Buckfast Queens from the same sources as above - available from late June onwards in National, and Commercial poly nucleus boxes as required.:- National £150.00. Commercial £180.00 Orders being taken now on a first come first served basis for both overwintered and 2019 nuclei. Nil VAT

We are a BFA DASH (Disease Assurance Scheme for Honeybees) accredited supplier. We are unique in Leicestershire in offering Nuclei headed by selected Buckfast Queens from known origin queen breeders.

HIVE COMPONENTS FOR SALE Also a number of second hand empty 14x12 National brood boxes in soft wood sold with bare Hoffman frames, (foundation available on request). Brood box, floor and bare frames £25.00 For details call John Heard 07775 335871 or 01509 842903

Address

36 The Green, Long Whatton
Loughborough
LE125DB

Telephone

+447775335871

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