Chain Bridge Honey Farm | Buy Honey & Beeswax Products or Visit Us

Our Visitor Centre is closed – Buy our products online to be sent to you or choose ‘Click + Collect’ to pick up from the Honey Farm or telephone 01289 382362.

Please note the Union Chain Bridge is currently closed for refurbishment.

Get a free Honey & Beeswax Peppermint Foot Cream when you spend £30.00 or more on any of our products before 9th August 2021.

Simply add a Honey & Beeswax Peppermint Foot Cream to your basket and apply ZINGY as your coupon code at the checkout.

Trending Products

Tweedside Including Heather Honey 340g
£5.85

bee facts — Tweedside Including Heather Honey 340g
£5.85

Honey and Beeswax Hand Cream with Lavender 50g
£6.75

Honey and Beeswax Hand Cream with Lavender 50g
£6.75

Honey & Beeswax Natural Lip Balm (Heather Honey) 18g
£3.75

Honey & Beeswax Natural Lip Balm (Heather Honey) 18g
£3.75

100% Natural Beeswax Dipped Candles
£6.25

Honey

Lip Balm

Skincare

Candles

Polish

Gifts

Browse All Products

Instafeed

Beehive shifting in the RAIN ☔️☔️☔️

Beehive shifting in the RAIN ☔️☔️☔️

We have started moving our beehives up to the Moorlands in the hope of some Heather honey 🤞. It is a little early but the bright Bell Heather is out. There is also clover and willow herb to keep the bees happy.

We set off early this morning to move the hives from a field of flowering beans (and daisies) then drove a good few miles up into the hills to their new home for the next few months.

We like to move the hives in cooler weather so all the bees are ‘in’, we use a wee puff of smoke (from a traditional bee smoker) and a wee wooden stick to shut them in. This stick is removed and the bees let out once the hives are settled in the new location.

Look how happy these bees are to be out 🐝🐝🐝.

We move the bees as quickly and gently as possible in our custom built #foersibex trucks.

#chainbridgehoneyfarm#honey#bees#heather#beekeeping#foersibex#rain#stopraining

🌺BEE FRIENDLY FLOWERS 🌸🐝🐝🌺🌸🐝🌺🌸 🌼 Walking around the honey farm gardens this morning I can hear a lot of buzzing ! Here are some beautiful bee friendly flowers….

Geum (tangerine) attracting a bumble bee. Fabulous and bright.

Honeybees on Astrantia, the most pretty delicate flower.

Nepeta (catmint) smells just amazing.

Scabious attracting lots of bumblebees, tall and striking.

Campanula, this red tailed bumble bee loved it 🐝

Well that was June ! A sweet mix of bees, honey, s

Well that was June ! A sweet mix of bees, honey, swarms, bees, honey, swarms, bees, honey and swarms. Hey we re not complaining how lucky are we to have these lovely busy bees and all this delicious honey to sell 🐝. A decent bit of weather really brought things on and we’ve collected some super duper honey. Sorry our visitor centre is closed it’s just easier for now, our products can be found all over the place though I’ve even heard on the Moon 🌚

Buzzzzzzzz, now that’s a canny swarm ! We ve bee

Buzzzzzzzz, now that’s a canny swarm ! We ve been really busy the last few weeks. The sudden change from cold to hot weather made a lot of bees want to get out ASAP, there have been a lot of swarms !! We ve been going round the beehives looking for ones likely to swarm and dividing the hive. We ve been putting out bait (empty) hives to try and catch swarms before they disappear, we ve also been putting empty hives in folks gardens trying to tempt bees out of chimneys but that doesn’t always work 🤣😬😊.

We have also been moving beehives to different locations (ie flowering beans) taking honey off to bring home and extract and creating nuclei (small new colonies of bees).

It’s a buzzzy life being a honey farmer 🐝 🌼 🐝 🌸 🐝

What a beautiful evening strolling along the river

What a beautiful evening strolling along the river bank. Even though the Chain Bridge is closed you can still explore the riverside paths, enjoy peace, tranquility, nature and stunning views of the Tweed. This is the footpath from the bridge towards Horncliffe. Head to Paxton House for amazing walks on the other side of the river.

#happystrolling#unionchainbridge#chainbridgehoneyfarm #peace#beauty#nature#paxtonhouse

Load More… Follow on Instagram

Latest News

Beekeeping in Winter – January 2021
22nd February 2021

Union Chain Bridge Restoration – A Bird’s Eye View
30th November 2020

An Assessment of the Black Bee Going Back 100 Years
13th November 2020

Honey Facts – from the Chain Bridge Honey Farm Visitor Centre
2nd October 2020

Union Chain Bridge Bi-Centenary July 26th 2020
24th July 2020

Discussion on Swarming by W.S. Robson
16th July 2020

W. S. Robson, D. E. A. Robson, S.S. Robson, H. E. Thompson, F. A. Robson