Goodlife Bees

21/10/2026

Happy National Honey Day! 🐝 Celebrate by buying a jar of local honey and help support beekeepers and bees in your area 🍯🐝🐝🐝

21/10/2026

Happy National Honey Day 🍯🐝

Today we celebrate the remarkable honeys produced by beekeepers right across Britain with every jar reflecting the flowers, landscape and seasons of the place it came from.

And there’s more variety than you might think: look out for runny honey, smooth soft-set, chunk honey, or whole honeycomb straight from the hive, each with its own distinct texture, flavour and character.

So if you haven’t already, pick up a jar of local honey, share it with friends or family, and really savour it.

Not sure where to find some? The BBKA’s interactive honey map helps you track down beekeepers and local honey near you: https://buff.ly/SiTSHCb

Bought a jar? We’d love to see it.
Share a photo using and tell us how it tastes. 👇

20/09/2026

All set up at West Acre Theatre for today’s craft fair. Come and have a browse, I’ve got lots of my lovely local honey, gift sets and beeswax candles 🐝🍯 🕯️ Is it too early to be thinking about Christmas presents?!😬

19/09/2026

Busy making candles today ready for tomorrows craft fair at West Acre Theatre.
Really pleased how this one’s turned out 🙂
🐝 🕯️ 🐝

17/09/2026

Lots of pollen & nectar still coming in to help boost their winter stores.
Some lovely colours of yellow, orange, cream and grey 🐝🐝

10/09/2026

I’ll be at Westacre Theatres Autumn Craft Fair on Sunday 20th September with lots of delicious Norfolk honey, gift sets, beeswax candles and products. So come along and say Hi 👋
🐝🍯🐝🕯️

10/09/2026

I’ll be at Westacre Theatres Autumn Craft Fair on Sunday 20th September with lots of delicious Norfolk honey, gift sets, beeswax candles and products. So come along and say Hi 👋
🐝🍯🐝🕯️

10/09/2026

02/08/2026

The True Value of a Spoonful of Honey 🍯🐝

A worker honeybee lives for around six weeks. During the first three weeks of her life, she works tirelessly inside the hive, cleaning cells, feeding larvae, and caring for the colony. Only in her final three weeks does she leave the hive to forage for nectar.

In that short foraging career, a single honeybee produces just 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey—less than 4/1000 of a teaspoon per day. That means it takes around 252 bees working for a full day to produce just one teaspoon of honey.

A worker bee can collect approximately 1.4 millilitres (0.05 oz) of nectar each day. While that may seem small, thousands of foraging bees working together gather an incredible amount of nectar, which is transformed into the honey we enjoy.

To put that into perspective, one teaspoon of honey weighs around 7 grams. Since one bee produces only about 0.6 grams during her lifetime, it takes the work of approximately 755 bees to produce one pound (453 g) of honey.

A strong honeybee colony might produce a 60-pound surplus of honey in a good season. That's the equivalent of around 45,000 worker bee lifetimes devoted to foraging.

The next time you enjoy a spoonful of honey, remember—it's the result of thousands of tiny journeys, millions of flowers visited, and the extraordinary teamwork of an entire colony 🍯🐝

21/10/2025

There are currently over 35,000 beekeepers in the UK keeping around 250,000 colonies. This is many less colonies than after the Second World War. UK beekeepers are often small-scale hobby beekeepers.
There are around 400 Bee Farmers in the UK.
Beekeepers are mindful of the need for responsible and sustainable beekeeping in balance with other pollinators and wider biodiversity.