To find out how to find us and when we’re open at: Markeaton Park Craft Village, Derby…click here

Click on the link below for a Google Map of The Honey Pot area, allow a few moments for it to load

 fully, and see what else there is to see and do at Markeaton Park while your there. (It will keep the family busy while your getting your beekeeping equipment) …

The interest shown by the visitors to Art in Action,  this year, makes it all worth while, this father and daughter were clearly fascinated by our Observation Beehive.

display about beekeeping with the Observation Hive. Many people are keen to learn about beekeeping following the recent media coverage about the problems with the bees, but what do you need? How much does it cost? Where to start beekeeping, beekeeping courses and many more questions can be answered in our information pack.

It covers most of the points and guides you into the craft of beekeeping.
It includes : our leaflets “How to start beekeeping”, “The problems with bees”, contacts about beekeeping activities in your area, our price list and an excellent book called Bees at the Bottom of the Garden.

To order our pack send a cheque payable to The Honey Pot for £15 (UK only) and I will send one to you, don’t forget to include your name and address.

Tony Maggs started The Honey Pot back in 1990 at Markeaton Park Craft Village in Derby, UK, in the East Midlands, to provide a link between beekeeping and the public.
The beekeepers come to buy all of their beekeeping equipment, and the public come to buy their local honey and products of the hive by our own bees.
All of the honey we sell comes from near by at our own apiaries , so we sell direct to the customer.

The Honey Pot also does a few Farmers’ Markets and Shows and has a number of selected outlets near by to provide the customer with a source of local honey produced from our own apiaries, reducing food miles.

The honey produced by The Honey Pot uses traditional and ethical methods with minimal stress to the honey bees. The quality of local honey is down to the care of the beekeeper.
Local Honey is nature’s direct health food, do not confuse or compare local honey with the majority of honey available in the shops, this is imported and the methods used cannot be guaranteed.
Here in Britain, local honey will normally have the name of the county on the label and the beekeepers name and address.

If you are having difficulties sourcing local honey near to where you live, try your local Farmers’ Market, health food shops, shows, garden centres’ or some times your local butcher stocks local honey. If you are still having difficulties send me an e.mail and I will try and point you in the right direction and I will try and give you some contacts to try.

Where does your honey come from ?

To see how a beehive works and all of its parts, click on the link below to see what all the parts in beehive are.