If you would like to purchase local honey, members of Guildford Beekeepers Association sell honey from their homes at the following addresses:

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Your nearest local honey suppliers are

Bramleys Apple

Georgian House, Bramley High Street GU5 0HB (1 miles) facebook.com

Robertson Electrical

High Street Bramley GU50EH (1.1 miles) 01483892207

For Earths Sake

Upper House Farm, Upper House Lane. Stroud Common. Surrey GU5 0SX (1.5 miles) 01483 597268 www.forearthssake.co.uk
Local, Raw, Wildflower Honey. Open on Wed-Sat. 9.30-16.30

Two Brooks Bees

Two Brooks, Smithwood Common Road. Cranleigh. Surrey GU6 8QR (2.7 miles) 01483 275043 www.twobrooksbees.co.uk
Private home, Please call before arriving. Local, Raw, Wildflower Honey.

GU48AQ (3 miles)

Malcolm Clarke

Row Lane, Farley Green GU5 9JW (3.2 miles) 01483 202294

Marilynne Bainbridge

Baltic House GU6 8SL (3.6 miles) 01483 275949

Food For Thought

2-6 Haydon Place, Guildford GU1 4LL (4.1 miles) 01483 533841

Barrie's Bees

20 Cranley Close GU1 2JN (4.4 miles) 01483538090 Mobile 07771877656

Peter Jones

Somerton House GU6 7LQ (4.4 miles) 07791 552375

Burrows Farm Honey

Burrows Farm, Burrows Lane GU5 9QE (4.8 miles) 07801 769039

Steve Cotney

GU2 9PD (5.6 miles) 07788144332

Astrid Bowers-Veenman

Hazel Road, Ash Green GU12 6HP (7.8 miles) 07803 069798 Hog's Back Honey

Glen Athol

Maythorne KT24 6LT (8.3 miles) 07775802347

David Bennett

KT24 5BH (8.5 miles) 07818 026 044

Simmons Butchers

2 Hermitage Road, St John's, Woking GU21 8TB (9.4 miles) https://simmonsfamilybutcherwoking.co.uk/

Astrid Bowers-Veenman / Alf Turner & Sons

North Lane, Aldershot GU12 4SY (9.7 miles) Hog's Back Honey

Astrid Bowers-Veenman / Squires Garden Centre

Badshot Lea, Farnham GU9 9JX (9.9 miles) Hog's Back Honey

South Castle Honey

GU15 2DS (13.1 miles) 07762529613 [email protected]

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Here are five good reasons to step away from the generic honey bear at your local supermarket and instead reach for a jar (or more!) of local honey.

1. Support your local beekeeper
Each spoonful of local honey you use helps keep local beekeepers in business. Beekeepers are passionately committed to their bees. Although there has been an increase in hobbyist beekeepers, beekeeping has dramatically declined in the UK and in the past one hundred years there has been around a 75% decrease in the number of bee hives. There are an estimated 274,000 honey bee hives in the UK; the majority of these hives are kept by approximately 44,000 amateur keepers. Most beekeepers just keep a few hives in their back garden.

2. Support pollination in your locality
Having fewer local beekeepers threatens local food production in gardens, allotments and on farms. Bees are essential for a healthy environment and healthy economy. One third of the food we eat would not be available but for bees and other pollinating insects.  In the UK alone, about 70 crops are dependent on, or benefit from, visits from bees. In addition, bees pollinate the flowers of many wild plants and plants that become part of the feed of farm animals.  The UK relies on bees and other insects to pollinate most of our fruits and vegetables. The economic value of honey bees and bumble bees as pollinators of commercially grown insect pollinated crops in the UK has been estimated at over £400 million per year.

3. Protect the environment
Since local honey doesn’t have to travel far, you save energy, reduce your carbon footprint and reduce the amount of packing materials used to transport the honey. This all ultimately helps our planet.

4. Help with pollen allergy
Although the scientific research is lacking, anecdotal evidence suggests that local honey is beneficial for people with seasonal allergies. It should, naturally, come from hives within a few miles of where you live to ensure that it contains the pollen allergens that cause you trouble.

5. It is still pure and has not been heated to high temperatures
Most supermarket honey has been flash heated, that means heated to a high temperature and then cooled down quickly. By heating honey to a high temperature you lose a lot of the flavour and aromas, and some say goodness. Try a local honey and you will never go back – the taste is far better. Press reports also highlight how supermarket honey is often mixed with corn syrup and other non honey sugar syrups.