Something about the quality of existence these last few years has resulted in life being unpredictable to the extent that it has been chaotic and unplannable. If ever there was a time to quote Burns, it would be now....to put it simply life has been rough. We seem to perpetually find...

                    As you may have noticed in January of this year we ( after a few hurdles) launched a range of Premium Raw Greek honeys curated from around Greece. We entered all 6 in the Great Taste Awards. (We did not...

Sometimes things of the greatest consequence happen per chance. Perhaps you can say they are fated. So it began with a catastrophic Portuguese honey harvest with yields down 70% across the country (and prices 25% up). The weather has been very unkind. ( Beekeepers tend to downplay the harvest for...

    This year we decided to enter 2 of our honeys which we felt were a little special this season; our beautiful Oak-rich Serra da Estrela honey and our new Madeiran Laurissilva Cloud Forest Honey. The judges at Great Taste seemed to share our opinion and saw fit to...

I know that we are we are merely simple honey sellers but after the collective psychotic episode, utterly disastrous, public health car-crash, technocratic fronted, billionaire coup, of the last two years which has caused so much suffering to so many,  it's hard to find anything particularly cheery to write about or...

Facebook and Instagram are both owned by the most reprehensible, criminal, predatory and immoral people whose practices we simply can't condone, Regardless of how many times marketing experts tell us that they are vital to our survival in the crowded marketplace. I personally feel that Facebook has had the most...

A few years ago I was visiting a beekeeper in southern Portugal. As soon as I entered his office he said " i want to show you something", he reached down and pulled out a 260g jar of Aldi "Portuguese honey" ( Mel de Portugal), He then announced indignantly that...

In 2011 we were living and working in the fantastic, eclectic town of Taos, New Mexico in the high desert at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Taos was home to an ancient Pueblo settlement, to Hispanic settlers from the 17th Century, and a haven for artists, vagabonds and...