About Fine Local Honey

Most honey on supermarket shelves travels thousands of miles before it reaches you — blended, pasteurised, and stripped of any sense of where it came from.

Fine Local Honey exists because that bothered us.

We're beekeepers ourselves. It started in Sevenoaks, continued in Edinburgh, and somewhere along the way we became properly obsessed — with the hives, with the seasons, and with the remarkable way honey captures a particular place and time. We know that honey from heather moorland tastes nothing like honey from an orchard valley, and that the beekeeper who tends those hives has a story worth knowing. We built this marketplace because small producers deserved a better way to reach people who care — and customers deserved a clearer view of what they were actually buying.

Pentland Hills moorland at golden-hour sunset — rolling Calluna heather hills that give Scottish heather honey its distinctive terroir
Pentland Hills heather moorland — the landscape behind Scotland's most distinctive harvests.

What we do

We connect you directly with independent beekeepers across the UK. Every listing tells you where the honey comes from, and every purchase goes straight to the person who made it.

For beekeepers, we provide the tools to manage listings, orders and delivery without the faff — so they can spend more time with their bees.

Built by beekeepers

Fine Local Honey sits on CleverBeek — a platform we built from the ground up to support beekeepers at every stage, from hive management to selling their honey.

Honey bees festooning beneath a hive frame top bar, secreting wax chains during an active colony build-up
Bees festooning — wax secretion in a strong colony.

Supported by Techscaler

We're proud to be supported by Techscaler, a Scottish Government programme backing Scotland's digital entrepreneurs. Their mentoring and support has been invaluable in bringing Fine Local Honey to life.

Get in touch

Questions, feedback, or want to list your honey? We'd love to hear from you.

hello@finelocalhoney.co.uk