FOUNDED IN 2007, BERMONDSEY STREET BEES IS A SUSTAINABLE BEEKEEPING PRACTICE SUPPLYING HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND BARS

OUR MULTI-AWARD-WINNING RAW HONEYS ARE MADE BY BEES LIVING ON WILD, REWILDED AND REGENERATIVELY MANAGED LAND, KEEPING THEM SAFE AND SUPPORTING POLLINATOR BIODIVERSITY

Our small-scale artisanal raw honey production and traditional ways of beekeeping prioritise bee welfare. We supply characterful, raw, single-source honeys to Chefs and Bartenders who want to support sustainable British beekeeping. banishing anonymous , highly processed ‘EU & Non-EU blends’ from their kitchens and bars in favour of real honey, with authentic terroir and stories to tell.

We have our own urban and rural apiaries and also keep bees for some visionary organisations who support our sustainability agenda through their own commitments to net biodiversity gain. Our London honeys are made on rewilded land in London’s far Docklands, where our honeybees can forage without negatively impacting wild pollinators which depend on the same resources. Our country bees are equally carefully sited, giving them abundant, varied, natural forage, away from monoculturally-farmed land.

FARMING WHICH DOES MORE THAN PRODUCE FOOD

Although we were originally London rooftop beekeepers, recent years have seen Central London hitting unacceptable levels of hive density, bee disease and competition for ever-diminishing forage. Responding to this increasingly unsustainable environment, we have been moving more and more of our bees away from central areas since 2020, leaving only those colonies able to depend on excellent forage.

In 2022, we followed that same path, leaving London’s Bermondsey Street for coastal Essex. For nearly 20 years, we have been planting and mentoring pollinator gardens in public and private spaces to support wildlife and feed bees, sharing that experience through our education programmes. Now on 4 acres of land near Maldon, we are planting on a far larger scale; developing an organic, closed system of regenerative land management, encompassing pollinator plantings, wildlife habitats, kitchen gardens and wilderness areas.

CONSULTING AND EVENTS

Apis, our Apicultural Consultancy, advises corporates in many sectors, helping them develop meaningful CSR, ESG and biodiversity projects We also create a wide range of bespoke Corporate Events and offer apiary locations, equipment hire and bee wrangling to photographers, filmmakers & TV production companies.

Sarah Wyndham Lewis

Founder

A professional writer and Bologna-trained Honey Sommelier, Sarah, trains chefs and bartenders and runs raw honey tastings for food and drink industry professionals. She also consults and runs events for clients as varied as Cunard, the Greek government, Edrington UK and Slow Food. Sarah is the author of two bestselling books, The Wild Bee Handbook (2023) and Planting for Honeybees (2018), both published worldwide by Hardie Grant.  She writes and speaks for print and broadcast media and judges in food awards including The Great Taste Awards.

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