Mersea Gold

Mersea Island bees

All my honey is local, and most of my bees are on Mersea Island - now that's 'local'!

Come and meet my bees!

If you love bees, or fancy becoming a beekeeper, or just like the outfit (!) then come and meet my bees

Raw and pure

Honey as close as I can get it to how it comes out the hive

New website!

It's early days for Mersea Gold! Please bear with me while I get everything set up during 2025.

Most of my bees are now on Mersea. I have some hives off Mersea - mainly for quarantining swarms, or queen breeding (it's good to not keep them all in one place)!

So 2025 will be my first honey harvest from Mersea bees. For now I have honey (still classed as 'local' because it's mainly from Hatfield Peverel), but this summer all my honey will be from Mersea bees.

Please follow along on the journey!

This website is well underway - with blogs and products nearly ready. You can follow on social media as well - see the social media icons at the bottom of the website page.

Raw unprocessed honey

I extract the honey using a centrifugal extractor. The honey is thrown out to the sides of the extractor, along with some pieces of beeswax, and the odd pieces of bee! This is it coming out of the extractor. It goes through a course stainless steel mesh to remove these pieces. I do not pasteurise, pressure filter, or tamper with the honey in any way - it's as close to how it comes out the hive as I can possibly make it!

Contains all it's original pollens
Contains the pollens local to Mersea Island
Untampered with - as raw as it comes
Delicious!

George

Beekeeping