Borage Honey

We are delighted to introduce our brand-new Borage Honey!

Borage honey is a honey that is produced from bees pollinating and extracting the nectar of the borage plant. This is a single origin honey due to the wonderful location of our beehives right next to our borage crop.

Borage was a new crop to our farm in 2023. Despite the unpredictable wet weather during July and August which led to a frustrating harvest, we were very pleased with the outcome of our new crops.

The seed from borage plants contains a lot of oil which is packed with fatty acids, which are sold in many health foods shops, to help with joint pain, healthy skin and apparently even hangovers. As well as producing seed, borage is loved by bees.

At the start of our journey with this new crop, we placed over 100 beehives right alongside the crop line. Bees thrive on borage flowers. With downwards facing flowers, it means that the nectar is not easily washed out by rain (of which we experienced a lot last summer) meaning that the flowers gave out nectar during the whole season.

It was so wonderful to see our beautiful British wildlife enjoying the vast and vibrant blue blooms. There certainly was quite the buzz around the field!

The honey that has been made by bees foraging on our borage flowers has a distinctive taste and is very clear compared to other honeys. It is light and delicate with floral tones.

Why not start your day with a scoop of borage honey on a slice of seeded sourdough toast?

Borage is being grown again in 2024. Over the past few months we have planted cover crops including a mixture of stubble turnips, fodder radish, sunflower and linseed that was grazed during the winter by our lambs. The mixture enhanced the soil as well as providing green manure for the borage crop in the spring. This is all part of the regenerative farming policy which has now replaced the traditional farming methods used in the past.

We hope you enjoy our first year’s borage honey as much as we do. Beehives will once again be located on our new borage field in 2024 and we look forward to seeing the bees flourishing from our crops once again.