RBKA did have some 600lbs remaining of Honey harvested from our apiaries during 2019. In normal times this would have been jarred and labelled and provided an important source of income by being sold to the public at village fairs, fetes and summer shows during 2020.
Meanwhile, during this year, the significant yields from our Brockham and Buckland apiaries in particular, under Richard Ramsden’s stewardship, as well as a useful contribution from Henfold apiary, have ensured that we now have very ample stocks of 2020 honey to meet hoped for demand at such events throughout 2021.
Hence the 2019 stock was offered for sale
to members and third parties in storage buckets
(each holding ~20 to 30lbs weight); at £3 per lb.
… and it a has ALL gone fast to Members!
Every bucket of stock offered for sale is identified by a label with its Lot Number, providing the day, month and year of extraction, the source Apiary and a sequential Bucket No. The Net weight of honey in each bucket is marked on the bucket lid. Fill weights of individual buckets do vary, with the cost of a bucket being determined by the weight of honey contained.
Our public website now provides a listing of locations where some of our members are offering their honeybee related products for sale to the public, either directly, or via village stores or local market stalls.
Propolis is the soft, pliable and very sticky orange substance that gums all the hive parts together and stains your clothes during summer hive inspections. It is also the hard and brittle orange sealant that has to be cracked open in order to enter the hive during the Winter or early Spring. 
