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05/09/2026

Three colours. One season. One extraordinary journey. 🐝
With this trio of honeys, our 2026 honey production has come to an end.
Three honeys. Three colours. Three different moments of the season.
Each one reflects a different period of the year and a different landscape of the Scottish countryside.
🌼 From the bright yellow fields of Rapeseed,
🌸 through the incredible explosion of summer flowers that creates our Multifloral Honey,
💜 and finally to the unique character of Ling Heather Honey.
But honey is only the final reflection of everything that happens throughout the season.
Behind every jar there are months of hard work, commitment, decisions, countless journeys, small victories and, inevitably, a few disappointments too.
There are the worries about being too late.
The constant checking of the weather forecast.
The fear that a sudden change in the weather might change everything.
And above all, there is a very intense and direct relationship with the real creators of all this extraordinary work:
🐝 the bees.
Now another important phase begins.
Perhaps the time when, even more than usual, I need to take care of them and help them prepare for a Scottish winter that, as always, promises to be long and full of challenges hidden around every corner.
But for now, I want to stop for a moment.
And look at these three colours.
Because in each of them I can see the satisfaction, the memories and the story of a season that, as always, has been intense, challenging... and incredibly beautiful.
❤️🐝🍯
Thank you to everyone who has supported and followed Brawliemuir Farm throughout this season.
And of course, you will be able to find me and all three of these honeys at the upcoming markets!
Which one would you like to try first? 🍯🐝

04/09/2026

INTRODUCING A NEW PRODUCT – HIVE BLEND 🍯🌼
A very special new product from our bees.
HIVE BLEND combines our Scottish multifloral honey with carefully harvested bee pollen.
🍯 Honey naturally provides carbohydrates.
🌼 Bee pollen naturally contains a variety of nutrients, including proteins, carbohydrates, fats and naturally occurring micronutrients.
Together, they create a unique blend inspired by the natural food of the hive.

HIVE BLEND will always be produced in small, limited batches — taking only what we can responsibly harvest and leaving the bees with
what they need to thrive.

🍯 From our bees, with care.
✨ Limited availability
🏴 Produced at Brawliemuir Farm, Scotland
What do you think? Would you like to try HIVE BLEND? 🍯🌼🐝
✨ Our first limited batch will be coming with us to our next markets

12/08/2026

Sometimes, the honey is not the only reward.

For a beekeeper, honey is obviously important. It is what allows a small business like mine to exist, and what makes all the work economically worthwhile.
But honestly, there are moments when honey is not what I am thinking about at all.
Opening a hive and finding a colony like this is one of them.
A beautiful, compact brood pattern. Clean comb. Bees covering the frame, busy with their work. Everything looking just as it should.
We cannot really know if bees are happy. But when I see a colony like this, I feel that they are healthy, settled and thriving. And that, to me, means more than I can easily explain.
Because behind a frame like this there are weeks and months of work. Checking colonies in the cold, making decisions when the weather is against you, dealing with problems, taking risks, losing colonies, starting again, and constantly trying to do the right thing for them.
So when I lift a frame and see this, I feel a little bit of pride.
And also a sense of peace.
It reminds me that, in some small way, I have been allowed into their world and have managed to give them what they need to thrive.
The honey is what they give me.
Seeing them thrive is what they give back. 🐝

29/07/2026

🌿 **An incredible milestone for Brawliemuir Farm!** 🌿

Today I'm delighted to share some wonderful news.

Our **Multifloral Honey** has been awarded **⭐⭐ Great Taste 2026**.

Great Taste is one of the world's most respected food awards, where thousands of products from over 100 countries are tasted completely blind by independent judges. The focus is simple: the taste of the product.

Receiving two stars is an incredible honour.

This award isn't just about a jar of honey. It represents countless hours spent caring for our bees, creating healthy habitats for them to forage, working with nature through the changing Scottish seasons, and harvesting the honey our bees can truly spare, so that their wellbeing always comes before the harvesting.

Every spoonful is the result of thousands of journeys made by our bees across wild flowers and the Scottish countryside.

To have that work recognised by Great Taste is something I'm genuinely proud of.

A huge thank you to everyone who has supported Brawliemuir Farm, bought our honey, visited the apiary or simply believed in what we do. Your support makes achievements like this possible.

And of course... the biggest thanks goes to the bees. 🐝❤️

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20/07/2026

🌼🐝 Creating space for pollinators at Westerton Farm

In an area where farmland dominates the landscape, natural corridors and food sources for pollinators can sometimes be limited.

That is why I am particularly pleased to be working with Western Farm.

Among their crops, they have created space for flowering plants such as crimson clover, Phacelia tanacetifolia and sunflowers — providing valuable sources of nectar and pollen for bees and other pollinating insects.

I have placed one of my honey bee colonies here, and I am really pleased to see the bees making use of these flowers.

But the collaboration goes beyond simply providing forage for the bees. Western Farm also grows pumpkins, and I hope that my bees will be able to contribute to the pollination of the pumpkin flowers too. 🎃🐝

For me, this is a great example of how agriculture and biodiversity can work together.

Farm production and pollinator conservation do not have to be opposites. With a little planning and collaboration, it is possible to create space for both.

And as part of this collaboration, you can also find Brawliemuir Farm honey in the Western Farm shop. 🍯

From the flowers, to the bees, to the crops, and eventually to the local community — this is exactly the kind of collaboration I am proud to be part of.

16/07/2026

🌿 A new season begins Glenesk Folk Museum 🐝

Every summer, moving my hives to Glenesk Folk Museum feels a little like bringing them back to a familiar home.

This special place was one of the very first to support Brawliemuir Farm, and I'm always grateful for the trust and encouragement they've shown over the years.

The bees are now surrounded by the Scottish hills and, with a bit of luck from the weather, they'll begin collecting nectar from the blooming heather. Heather honey is one of Scotland's most unique honeys, and every jar tells the story of this beautiful landscape.

I also love that here the museum celebrates nature through its trails and educational activities, helping visitors discover also the importance of pollinators and the incredible work they do every day.

Here's to another season together, and hopefully another harvest that truly tastes of Glenesk.
Whether they return with heather honey or simply help pollinate the surrounding landscape, I'm always happy to see them spend part of their season here

🐝💜

15/07/2026

🐝 **Sharing the world of bees is always something truly special.**

Last Sunday I had the pleasure of welcoming some wonderful guests to the apiary for one of my **Bee Experience** sessions.

Every visit reminds me why I love doing this. It isn't simply about opening a hive—it's about sharing the fascinating world of honey bees, answering questions, discovering together how a colony works, and helping people appreciate these incredible insects even more.

A heartfelt **thank you** to everyone who joined me. Your curiosity, enthusiasm and kind company made the experience just as enjoyable for me as I hope it was for you.

📅 **Bookings are now open for next week!**

• Monday & Tuesday– Brawliemuir Farm Apiary
• Weekends – Westerton Farm or Mill of Benholm Enterprise or Glenesk Folk Museum Apiary

If you've ever wondered what it's feels like to stand beside a working beehive and discover the amazing life of honey bees, I'd be delighted to welcome you.

For more information or to book your Bee Experience, simply send me a message.

I look forward to meeting more people and sharing this passion for bees and beekeeping. 🐝💛

14/07/2026

**From seed to hive.**

A few months ago this field looked very different.

After winter grazing by my sheep and goats, I chose to avoid herbicides and prepared the soil using only cultivation. I then hand-sowed a carefully selected mix of flowering species, including phacelia, buckwheat, borage and clovers, with one goal in mind: creating a better habitat for pollinators while exploring whether these flowers could eventually support a unique farm-produced honey.

Today, something exciting is happening.

Looking inside the hive, I can already see pollen of many different colours arriving from the field. Although pollen colour alone cannot identify a plant with certainty, the purple, green and brown pollen loads strongly suggest that the bees are visiting many of the flowers we planted.

For me, this is the first real sign that the experiment is working.

Even more rewarding is seeing honey bees, bumblebees and butterflies feeding across the field every day.

Over the past few years I have often placed colonies in intensive farmland, only to discover that there simply wasn't enough forage for bees to build adequate honey stores for winter. In many cases I had to move the colonies to more natural landscapes where nectar and pollen were available.

This project is my attempt to change that, even if only on a small scale.

I hope these flower strips can help support pollinators, increase biodiversity and, one day, produce a distinctive honey that truly reflects this land.

Sometimes the smallest changes begin with a handful of seeds.

08/07/2026

Today I had to face one of the hardest and less beautiful parts of farming.

This is not an easy picture to share. I decided to cover his face because, even in death, I believe animals deserve respect and dignity.

Death is part of the story of every farm that keeps animals. It is a part that we cannot avoid, even if it is the part that nobody really wants to talk about. But animals are not only the beautiful moments we share, the new births, the healthy animals, the products they give us. They are also a responsibility until the very end.

Today I don’t want to focus on his death, but on the life he had.

He was one of the first sheep I received when we moved to Brawliemuir Farm, from the previous owners of the farm. He was already an old sheep at that time, and we know that in our modern farming system, an animal that is no longer useful often has a very different destiny.

But he was given the chance to stay.

Over the years, I got to know these animals better. Sheep can be shy and difficult to handle, especially when we need to bring them in for shearing, veterinary checks, or simply to observe them closely. But when you spend time with them, you start noticing the small things.

With him, we discovered that he had lost all his teeth because of his age. Eating was becoming harder and harder, so we supported him as much as we could, helping him through the final part of his life, even knowing that his body was slowly reaching its limit.

Looking back at the records, he was at least 14 years old, maybe even older. He was able to live until the end of his natural life.

And for me, this means something.

A natural death is always sad, but a natural life is not always something guaranteed for farm animals.

Keeping animals means accepting all parts of it. The good days and the difficult days. The joy of seeing them healthy and the sadness of saying goodbye. It means trying every day, with all our limits and mistakes, to give them the best life we can.

I strongly believe that a good quality of life also creates quality in what animals give back to us. Not only in the products, but in the connection and respect that are built over time.

Today I am not writing about products. I just want to say goodbye to one of the first animals that shared this new chapter of our life at Brawliemuir Farm.

Thank you for the years you spent here.

I hope to give the same care and respect to all the other animals that are part of this place, and to allow them to live the longest and best life possible.

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