Calm and Productive Bees

Welcome to Jurassic Bees, a small family-run bee farm nestled on the picturesque Jurassic Coast in Dorset. We are passionate beekeepers, Charlie and Lorraine, dedicated to nurturing healthy, thriving live bees and nucs in Dorset. Our farm specializes in providing high-quality nucleus colonies and virgin queens, carefully bred to ensure robust and productive hives. With a deep commitment to sustainable practices and the well-being of our bees, we take pride in offering top-notch products that support both novice and experienced beekeepers alike. At Jurassic Bees, we treat our bees like family, and we’re excited to share our passion with you.

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Dorset Wildflower Honey

Dorset Honey

Discover the finest raw honey, harvested locally from the pristine countryside of Dorset. Our honey is completely natural, unprocessed, and packed with flavor, retaining all its natural enzymes and nutrients to provide you with the freshest honey experience possible.

Sourced directly from sustainably kept hives, our Dorset honey is raw, meaning it hasn’t been heat-treated or pasteurized, preserving its rich taste and natural goodness. Each jar captures the essence of Dorset’s wildflowers, giving you a taste of nature’s best, straight from the hive.

Perfect for health-conscious consumers, our honey is free from additives and chemicals, ideal for enhancing your diet or simply indulging in its golden sweetness. Whether you're adding it to your tea, drizzling over toast, or using it in recipes, our honey brings the purity of Dorset into your home.

Order now to experience fresh, raw Dorset honey – pure, natural, and brimming with the flavors of the countryside.

Why Choose Us?

Choosing Jurassic Bees means opting for unparalleled quality and personal touch. As a small, family-run apiary on the stunning Jurassic Coast in Dorset, we are deeply passionate about our craft. Our live bees, nucleus colonies, virgin and mated Queens are all reared and grown in Dorset. Our bees are carefully selected to ensure they are calm gentle bees that are healthy, resilient, and highly productive.

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I cannot really fault this company

I cannot really fault this company, excellent queens arrived well packaged and on time, there was a small hiccup on the order which was rectified without delay.
No quibbles just straight forward excellent service.
I'll be ordering again

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looking good

Best local wildflower honey ive tasted, definitely will be buying from them all the time and also recommend them to others.

The best local honey I’ve tasted

The best local honey I’ve tasted, enjoyed it so much I ordered two more jars.
I have definitely found a great supplier that I will be staying with.

Wildflower Honey

You can’t beat the taste of fresh honey, the taste of this honey is amazing and would highly recommend

absolutely perfect service

It was a great pleasure meeting and dealing with Charlie who very clearly is an extremely knowledgable apiarist he introduced the bees and the queen bee into my hobby bee hive in the most professional manner explaining every detail most clearly his after sales service is exceptional and I highly reccommend Charlie to anyone who has an interest in Bee Keeping. Charlie travelled a great distance to personally deliver my swarm of bees and install them in the hive . I will most certainly keep using him .

Introduced and released

Introduced and released, looking great so far. Waiting for the great genetics to shine through!!!

Mated and laying in 14 days!

Amazingly fast delivery of the Dorset carnolian virgin queen. All the attendants were alive and she was accepted into the predominantly buckfast nuc that had been queenless for a week or so.

She mated and had laid up all six frames in the nuc within 14 days of introduction; to the point I had to add an extension to give her more room to lay. I cannot believe how prolific she is in terms of laying. I’ve yet to see the temperament, but so far i am impressed with this queen. I will definitely be changing over to this species from this supplier in the coming years.

Great queens

Helpful and timely communication. Have settled in well. Many thanks

Best honey in Dorset

The honey is so clear, perfectly runny and has most delicious taste.
Also the fact that it's locally produced by the lovely beekeepers is a huge win.
Thank you 🙂

I brewer

See. Good ,they accepted her no problem going forward

5 Star after two weeks, plenty of capped and uncapped brood, lots of activity, mixed pollen being collected, very calm and easy to handle colony.

May "Bees"

Beautiful Coloney of Bees
Very Calm to work with i would definitely buy from jurassic bees again..
Personal service with lots of helpful knowledge
Thank you Jurassic Bees 🐝

National Nuc

Bees arrived in excellent health and are thriving with a great start to the summer. Great to be able to buy local bees, they seem incredibly calm and easy to manage!

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Summer F1 Buckfast National Nucleus Colonies (Paynes Poly National)
Joanne Francis-Lawrence
Brilliant service and bees

Bees are gentle and service excellent

I have been looking for years

Delicious, of course, and there are some suggestions that local honey helps to ease local hay fever too! Home delivery was an unexpected bonus, all with a smile, and I even like the graphics on the jar.

Excellent

Lovely taste have not found any better honey anywhere

Brilliant customer service

Absolutely brilliant service. Bees brilliant but it’s all new. But customer service is perfect.

New Bees F1 Buckfast.

Couldn't be more please when the Bees arrived. The Nucleus was full to the brim with healthy Bees. All the Bees were very calm on inspection .I would recommend Jurrassic to anyone New or old. Very pleased and many thanks.

Quality nuc

Good quality nuc, crammed with healthy bees, brood in all stages they are doing very well, many thanks and will be buying nucs from jurassic bees again

Lovely product! Great that it is made just over the hill from me!

Excellent honey!

Wildflower Honey

Great Service ,Great product, delivered within 6hrs of order no delivery charge. And Gorgeous Honey, well done to Charlie and the team, will be ordering again and telling friends,and neighbours. dave, moreton

Best honey 🍯

Lovely delicate flavour. Buying local you also know what you’re getting. It’s nothing like supermarket honey with added extras. This is pure delicious honey.

It's Delightful

Pure, clear and deliciously fragrant!