Born out of a love and passion for Beekeeping
Northumberland Honey Co was established by husband and wife Luke and Suzie Hutchinson in 2015. Also known as The Hutch Family. Their ethos is to keep bees sustainably and deliver the highest quality products directly from their hives to your home.
Keeping over 300 honey producing colonies of bees in the Tyne and Irthing Valley and over 800 mating nuclei colonies the Hutch Family are one of the UKs largest queen bee breeders and premium producers of honey in the UK.
The Hutch Family focuses on running a sustainable, family bee farm in Northumberland, producing the highest quality products from their hives to your home.
Annual production of honey is in the region of 15+ tonnes, meaning a vast range of products and services are offered. Selling honey in jars direct to customers, honey in bulk and also wholesale.
Supported by a fantastic team at the bee farm, Luke and Suzie are primarily the beekeepers, supported by Lucy in Sales and Customer Service and Suzanne who is production manager alongside a team of part-time and seasonal local staff.
Northumberland Honey Co is large enough to deliver and small enough to care.
Our area of expertise is Beekeeping. We produce quality pure honey to the highest standards, we’re one of the few honey producers in the UK who work to SALSA standards. Producing pure raw honey in both jars and bulk buckets.
Alongside a class leading range of natural cosmetics from beeswax and honey, and range of meads. whilst being one of the most pioneering UK breeders of UK bred Queen Bees.
Northumberland Honey
Pure Northumberland Honey
Produced by our bees, working Wildflowers, Trees and Heather Moorland. We work closely with landowners and farmers, providing not only a pollination service but also enabling us to produce real, quality, pure honey. Something of a rareity nowadays. If looking for quality, pure raw honey you are in the right place.
Sparkling Mead
The Bee Equivalent of Champagne
Sparkling Mead is the bee equivalent of Champagne and Sparkling Wine. Produced using our finest Northumberland Honey and spring water rather than using grapes. Traditional method Sparkling Mead is produced along similar principles to Champagne, taking over 2 years to create a bottle. Each Sparkling Mead is an expression of the different honey the bees produce. Being a working meadery, Northumberland Honey Co undertake all production in Haltwhistle and are the first meadery in the UK to produce a traditional method Sparkling Mead. Sparkling Mead has the potential to be one of the most sustainable alcohols out there. Since starting production in 2016, we have increased bee numbers by around 3,000 with every bottle consumed! Now that's something to raise a glass to!
Bees & Queens
Bee Breeding
Since 2015 we have been breeding queens and bees in our isolated Northumberland setting. Focusing on two lines of bee. Northumberland Dark Bee and also a Northumberland Buckfast Bee with varroa sensitive and hygienic traits. Sustainability is at the core of what we do. Breeding our own stock of bees that prove resilient, good to work with and adapt to the prevailing conditions.
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