Welcome to the bee-hive of Holden Honey Hive.

We accept all those who love and bee-hold bees to the standard that we do.

To those who don’t, buzz off.

Fun fact of the week: in the summer, a Queen can lay ip to 1,500 eggs a day! That’s one busy lady.

We need bees. Not just us at Holden Honey Hives, as it’s essential for our family owned and operated honey business, but because the world would bee a much duller place without them.

With the help of Friends of the Earth, we are going to show you just some of the reasons why bees are so important.

Did you know that, according to Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES):

More than 90% of the leading global crop types are visited by bees.

That’s not surprising once you find out that there are over 20,000 known species of bees globally, and our personally favourite is the renowned Honeybee. There are 25 Bumblebee species and over 220 types of Solitary Bees, and yes, these tend to nest on their own, as their name implies.

As look would hive it, bees bring joy into our lives without us even registering it. We appreciate their strong work ethic. Their ability to never let us down. Without them, there’d be no us.

When you are looking outside and see the blooming array of colourful and vibrant flowers, just remember, without these busy bees, that wouldn’t bee possible. Current times are depressing and dull as it is. As we’re entering spring time, we need a little joy and happiness to uplift our morale.

Through lockdown, the world has grown a deeper appreciation for the great outdoors, but with the worryingly dropping numbers of bees, something needs to be done.

Organisations and charities such as Friends of the Earth, Bumblebee Conservation Trust, and The British Bee Charity are just some of the many that are buzzing around to make a positive change.

Here at Holden Honey Hives, it has become one of our main objectives to do something about this, to not only help our own community, but to help all so that everyone can thrive.

That’s one of the reason’s why we decided to release our recipe book:

Holden Honey Hives Presents Our Family Guide to Cooking with Honey.

Week by week, we are going to show you the process we went through in creating this honey-based recipe book and hope that it may inspire you to swarm for success with an objective of helping others.

See you next week for: Hive got an idea, have you?

Until then, dream big and dream fast, who knows what’s around the corner.