Woodlands Honeybees - New Forest

18/09/2026

It's this weekend! Come taste some of our new HONEY! 🐝 🐝 🐝

09/09/2026

Come and visit us 👋🍯
Its a great day out and a excuse to taste some honey!
This Saturday, the 12th. Avon Heath Country Park

🐝 Wildlife lovers, this one's for you 🐞

Join us on Saturday 12 September as we celebrate the amazing wildlife around us. Our rangers, volunteers, and partner organisations will be on hand throughout the day to share their knowledge, showcase local conservation work, and inspire you to discover more about the natural world 🌱

🐍 Hilltop Herpetology
🦉 The Falcons Crest
🐸 Pond dipping
🖌 Nature-based crafts
🦋 Moth trap
🪲 Guided bug hunts
🪹 Bone and nature table
🐑 Farm animals
🐦‍⬛ Birds of a Feather activity trail
🦇 Wildlife experts and organisations
🍄 Guided heathland walk

Plus take a peak at our new look Visitor Centre ✨

Most activities free (small charge to hold a bird of prey). Parking charges apply.

🐛 See you then 🦎

22/08/2026

Hello Summer Honey 🍯
This has been collected from our bees on the edge of the New Forest. Our bet there's lots of bramble in there!

Heather Honey. With the dry weather we've just had we're not sure we're going to get much heather honey this year. The flower is outlander looking beautiful but put probably not producing much nectar. We'll keep you posted! 🐝

20/07/2026

After all the hard work we put in, there's nothing more rewarding than you tasting the honeys. ❤️🐝
The full team turned out for Fordingbridge Festival, even a bee gave her seal of approval on our candles.

21/06/2026

Thank you everyone who came to visit us yesterday, it was a day great as usual.
The new honey is proving to be the most popular 🍯 Look forward to seeing you all at Fordingbridge Festival 🐝

18/06/2026

It's Saturday!
Come and visit us at Sandleheath Village Fete for a top up of honey and everything Honeybees 🍯🐝

11/05/2026

We felt it was time to 'tell the bees' about our new team member. 🐝

"Telling the bees" is an ancient Western European tradition where beekeepers inform their bees of major household events—births, marriages, and especially deaths—to keep them informed and prevent them from leaving or dying.

11/04/2026

The queen is getting into a beautiful rhythm and the workers are collecting a lot of nectar and pollen.

All our hives made it through the winter and we've even split our first swarm. 🤞🏼 Here's to a great 2026.

21/03/2026

We have been a little quiet over the winter mostly because the bees have been tucked up in bed and secondly because a future apprentice is about to join the team... 🐣

#2026

21/10/2025

The best day of the year! 🐝

Shop local, support small-scale beekeepers, and enjoy real honey, made by bees foraging on flowers!

After our recent trip to the Hampshire Honey Show, where we attended a talk about honey adulteration with Lynne Ingram, it is a scary situation that the public unknowingly consumes what is infact not honey. We wish there was a magic wand to stop the adulteration of honey around the world so people could just enjoy real honey from their local beekeeper.