Re-Cycle is good, Re-use is better. We have tried to be an ethical business from the very first day we started, simply because we believe that if you want to live in a certain kind of world, you need to help create it, even in small ways.  If you send...

Well honestly, who doesn't like Bacon ? even if you are a vegetarian, cooking bacon releases some of those aromatic chemical compounds that we are hard wired to respond to and get your mouth watering. So here we go lets make Bacon ! and Pancetta while we are at it. Seeing...

Having won Great Taste awards three years in succession we are now allowed to proudly display the Great Taste Producer Logo. This year we only submitted three honeys, and one of our honeys the Serra da Estrela Mountain Honey won a star. We also submitted the Arbutus, but it seems it...

Monofloral or Polyfloral Ever since I ventured into the world of honey, its's been a continual process of discovery. If you ask an average person what the difference is between a monofloral and polyfloral or multifloral honey is the answer is liable to be " well one is from a...

As the end of summer approached. an extended, very late, hot summer of forest fires and drought, the springs were running at a mere trickle and the moisture we come to expect, especially the heavy nightly dew simply failed to materialize.  Disquiet turned to foreboding. Raw Carob honey,our most popular honey,...

Dear Customers firstly thanks for visiting this site and  continuing to buy some of the best honey available anywhere. As we wrote earlier in the year, post the referendum, the predicted calamitous drop in the value of the pound would force us to raise prices. A very bad year ( weather...

Nine days ago on an un-seasonally hot day, perhaps the hottest day of the year, a desperate man, with no apparent reason, rode his bike from the eastern Algarvian city of Loule  lighting fires as he went westward, the last of these was a fire on the top of the...

It's August again which means its results time at the Great Taste Awards         When your business is much a labour of love as anything else, especially when business entails all the contemporary state sponsored paperwork drudgery like record keeping, tax returns and book-keeping, it's certainly nice to get validated once...