The best honey farms in Essex
4.8 from 106 reviews across 3 farms
Organised lists 3 farms in Essex, including 3 honey farms, 1 butcher and 1 egg farm. 3 deliver to your door.
4.8 from 106 reviews across 3 farms
Organised lists 3 farms in Essex, including 3 honey farms, 1 butcher and 1 egg farm. 3 deliver to your door.
The Natural Hive Company LimitedRaw honey · Billericay4.8 (59 reviews)The Natural Hive Co is a honey and beeswax business based at Barleylands Farm park in Billericay. The aim is to keep things simple and natural, with pure honey straight from their hives, plus chutneys and jams that pair the sweetness of freshly harvested honey with savoury ingredients.
The range also takes in beeswax candles and wax melts, beekeeping equipment and a beekeeper's starter kit, all sold through the online shop. If you want to get closer to the bees, book one of the beekeeping experiences and spend a morning with the beekeepers learning the craft from A to Z.Hoyle's HoneyRaw honey · Brentwood4.8 (28 reviews)Hoyle's Honey is run by Richard and Sarah Hoyle from the family farm at Navestock Side in Essex, where the Hoyle family has farmed since the 1950s. Their bees forage naturally from hives positioned on the best sites across their own and neighbouring farms, and the raw honey is never overheated or pasteurised, so every year's harvest is its own vintage.
Locals can pop in to the honesty shop at the farm gate on Princes Road, where the whole range is sold including the popular 1kg jar and 1.5kg bucket. Bring the correct money, as there is nobody there to give change. The award winning honey, and bee pollen too, can also be ordered nationwide through the online shop.Brick Kiln FarmMeat & eggs · Colchester4.9 (19 reviews)Brick Kiln Farm is a farm on Turkey Cock Lane at Stanway, on the edge of Colchester, with a farm shop selling fresh, homegrown and locally sourced produce. What is on the shelves follows the seasons, so the pick changes through the year as crops come ready.
Alongside its own growing, the shop stocks goods from producers nearby, keeping money in the local farming community. It is an in person shop, open mornings from Monday to Saturday. The farm's own website is a coming soon page for now, so a quick look at their Facebook page before a special trip is worth it.Rebuilding the food system, from the farm up
