London Honey Festival

Sunday was an exciting day for WOLO’s latest venture – the Honey Club. We had a stall at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank, taking part in the London Honey Festival alongside lots of other bee-keepers from in and around London. From 12-5pm, we were descended upon by enthusiastic honey-lovers, asking questions about our bees and the social enterprise. Turns out there’s a lot of bee keeping lingo we need to bone up on!

Sadly, we didn’t win the overall tasting competition but we got lots of compliments on the light, citrusy honey our bees had created. An experienced bee-keeper told us she thought they’d been feasting on lime trees (which are in bloom at the moment). And we left smiling when we overheard someone else say to their friend “I told you they had the nicest packaging”!

The week before, we were busy preparing our leaflets and badges.

And, of course, harvesting our honey. We stole one frame from Hive 1, which was stuffed full of lovely honey, filling around 20 little pots to take to the festival. 

Huge congratulations to all those involved, in particular our fellow stall-holders from Global Generation, the local youth development charity which has co-founded the Honey Club with us.

If you want to find out more about our work with the Honey Club, check out www.honeyclub.org.