Halcyon Honey Wickford

19/05/2025

Exciting food Market coming this weekend to Wickford

📣📣1 MORE WEEK 📣📣

We are so excited for our collaboration with Wickford Town Council & Wickford Market next Saturday 👏🏼

Here’s who will be joining us 👀

Eat Shwings - Chelmsford - Wings & Loaded 🍟
Bubbles & Beans - Bubble Tea
Wrap Stars - Mexican Street Food
VDub Bar
Rock & Angel Gastro - Moroccan Cuisine
Joes Whippy - Ice Cream
Kokorashi - Fresh Sushi
Smoke BBQ Kitchen - Smoked/BBQ’d meats
Barista Boy - Coffee
Lot13 Pizza
Nilly's turkish kitchen - Traditional Turkish
Sugar Bakes by Amy - Cupcakes
Butter & Scotch - Cookies, Blondies, Brownies
XO Dough - Doughnuts & Cinnamon Buns
Tana Mediterranean- Olives, Hummus, Antipasti
The English Vine - Wine by the bottle
The Giggly Pig - Breakfast Baps & Sausages
Scoop Me Wax Melts
Magically Matilda - Accessories
Temprd Chocolate
Crafty Ginger - Crochet & Macrame
Marvin Designs - Plush toys
The Sweet Treat Factory - Pic n Mix
Scarlett Tiger - Candles
Inspired Nuts

13/05/2025

Morning to all my followers, the bees have exploded into 2025 due to the warm spring. I don’t have any honey available as yet but thought I’d post an update. I’m trying to take a step back from beekeeping this year so that I can spend more time with my mini beekeeper, a friend of mine is going to take on some of the responsibility.

I’m having another go at raising mini bee colonies this year using specialist equipment, very small hives. The advantage being that you can create new colonies with queen cells that would otherwise need to be removed to control swarming (coke can for scale)

15/09/2024

Thankyou to everyone who visited my market stall yesterday, I had a great time chatting to people at
Wickford Market & High Street

I didn’t completely sell out, and still have honey for sale

13/09/2024

Evening all, a reminder that tomorrow I’ll be in Wickford Market selling my local honey, usual price of £7 a jar (340g 12oz)

This is a one off stall as I’m still a hobby beekeeper, it’s just got a bit out of hand this year 😂

Come along for a chat if you’re in the area 🐝 🐝

Wickford Market & High Street

10/09/2024

To all my followers,
This Saturday I’ll have a stall in Wickford Market for the first time, I’ll be selling honey which is from two apiary sites in Wickford. So if you’ve ever been tempted to buy proper honey now is your chance!

It should be a busy day with the carnival on as well.

Please let your friends and family know, I’m looking forward to seeing you and always happy to chat about bees and honey 🐝 🐝

Graeme

18/08/2024

The endless labelling! You wouldn’t believe how long this takes, but you have to be compliant when selling honey! Has to have the “unsuitable for infant warning”, address, weight in grams (at least 4mm), lot number, seal, best before end date.
I still have jars for sale, £7 for a 12oz jar (340g)
Pick up from 17 Hengist Gardens, Wickford

11/08/2024

I still have honey for sale, it’s coming in faster than I can sell it this year, so I’ve run out of small jars I’m afraid.

Large Jar 340g = £7.00

If you’d like some please send me a message and I’ll send you pick up details, and set it aside for you. I take cash on collection or payment via an online link

All the honey is from my two apiary sites in , and it is a blend of spring and summer honey from this year. It’s run through two filters and that’s it, no heating. Just raw honey

24/07/2024

Honey for sale!
I’ve spent three days sorting out hives, taking the honey frames off, extracting, and putting the wet frames back on.

Small Jar 227g = £4.50
Large Jar 340g = £7.00

If you’d like a jar please send me a message letting me know which size jar you’d like and I’ll confirm I’ve set it aside for you. I sell it from my house, but can drop it off in the wickford area.
I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

This is easier for me to track than replying in comments below.

All the honey is from my two apiary sites in , and it is a blend of spring and summer honey from this year.

22/10/2023

A non bee related post this morning.

I used to be a member of Wickford Chit Chat and have just found that I’ve been removed from the group, no doubt this is because I’m on Wickford Town Council. Thought I’d just let people know that they routinely ask councillors to comment on whatever opinion is going around, but have systematically removed us, so we can’t comment.

firstly I won’t get drawn into these rants because they always start out negative and go downhill from there, usually posted by the same people. A shame that all the moaning behind a keyboard can’t be used in a more positive way. I find FB to be toxic and frankly impossible to navigate, which is why I rarely post

Secondly, the town council is a collective, we have a social media policy that means we can’t post opinions as the TC. We can post our own opinions as long as we make it clear they are our own, but obviously this could be divisive

So if you see posts saying “any town councillors wish to comment?” We can’t, we’ve (nearly all?) been removed.

Finally, just to reiterate a common misunderstanding. Town Councillors are not paid, we are in this for the love of the town and want to see genuine improvements, we offer up our time for free and volunteer in the community in a variety of ways. We can claim some expenses, for example for travelling to a councillor course, but the majority of us do not.

Yes there is an additional charge for the town council which some are unhappy about, and it’s actually the reason I joined to understand and have a say in where and how money is spent. As an individual you stand very little chance of making a difference, the town council is a collective voice with links into Basildon Borough and Essex County. We will make a difference, but it takes time. The same people that complain about Wickford and compare us to our neighbours Rayleigh and Billericay… guess what, they’ve had town councils for years looking out for their needs.

Please follow and support Wickford Town Council.

*My own opinion, not that of Wickford Town Council*

27/08/2023

Afternoon all, I finally have honey for sale!

I don’t have a huge amount so I’m limiting it to two jars per person in an attempt to ensure everyone gets some, I’m afraid there won’t be anymore this year.

Small Jar 227g = £4.50
Large Jar 340g = £7.00

All the honey is from my apiary in , and it is a blend of spring and summer honey from this year. If you’d like a jar please send me a message and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. This is easier for me to track than replying in comments below.

It hasn’t been the best year for beekeeping, I didn’t remove any honey in the spring as the weather wasn’t great and I needed to make sure the bees had enough, this was followed by July being very wet, but I’m pleased that the bees have being doing better and now have a surplus

In all honesty it hasn’t been a priority for me this year as we’ve just had a baby (Beekeeper in training 😂), and I kept putting off extraction and processing as it really is a chore, my wife Laura Ellis loves it when I take over the kitchen 😂

06/06/2023

Afternoon all, it’s been a while since I last posted, and I’ve had lots of enquiries for honey recently so thought I should say something (I’m not really one for social media).
I’ve sold out of last years honey, but I’m hoping to extract and jar the spring honey in the next couple of weeks, so watch this space.

The last few weeks has seen me out collecting swarms in and around Wickford. I particularly like this video which shows the bees deciding that the “Nuc box” is where they want to be, and they collectively move in, like a river of bees.

Graeme

26/11/2022

Evening all, it’s been rather quiet for beekeeping now that the weather has turned. Winter preparations for them hibernating were put in place about a month ago, and early November was the last time I’ll check them now until the first warm day in spring. In the video below you can see I’ve strapped the bees to the stand and there’s a silver guard on the front to keep Mice out.

I still have some of the summer honey available for sale:
Small Jar 227g = £4.50
Large Jar 340g = £7.00

I sell it from my house, send me a message if you’re interested 😊

Graeme