About us
made by bees is a veteran owned business with a focus on sustainable, bee-centric, eco friendly products that are both kind to your pocket and the environment. Home of the Veterans’ candle, in support of Combat Stress...
Our story...
What child could refuse a day off school?
Aged 14 back in 1984, I was offered an afternoon off school to help my grandfather collect a swarm of bees that were clustered high in a tree, we successfully relocated the swarm and from that day on I was hooked!
Following the death of my grandfather, I served 12 years in the British Army, became a Close Protection specialist providing protection in high risk areas and working in over 50 countries on six continents, I finally returned to Somerset in 2021 with my wife Gillian...
And three miniature Schnauzers having purchased Cox’s Farm with the ambition of keeping bees once more.
Cox’s Farm Bark Squad board of trustees:
Rollo, Ragnar, Floki.
WORKING WITH BEES IS INCREDIBLY THERAPEUTIC
Working with bees is incredibly therapeutic, almost like t'ai chi when in the ‘moment with the bees'. The aromas of honey and beeswax are cleansing for the mind and help me find a state of calm.
Find your state of calm with our...
Around 10 years ago unusually large numbers of honey bee colonies around the world were being lost to what became known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), caused by a number of factors, not least of all: exposure to high levels of pesticides.
Constant exposure to pesticides, traffic fumes, loss of habitat, poor nutrition from sugar syrup substitutes in bee farming all contributed to poor bee health and low resistance to disease spread by the varroa mite, resulting in huge colony losses of managed bees and wild pollinators on a global scale.
I formed made by bees - Cox’s Farm Honey Company in 2021, a bee-centric company focused not only on the wellbeing of our honey bees but raising awareness of the plight of all pollinating insects.
We harvest our own honey from our own hives.
We only harvest honey from our most industrious hives with surplus honey, leaving ample post harvest to see them through winter into spring, ensuring perfect health.
We never use pesticides, we rely on nature providing a balance between garden pests and their predators.
We joined forces with Ecologi, planting a tree with every order, helping bees and the environment.
I formed made by bees - Cox’s Farm Honey Company in 2021, a bee-centric company focused not only on the wellbeing of our honey bees but raising awareness of the plight of all pollinating insects.
We harvest our own honey from our own hives.
We only harvest honey from our most industrious hives with surplus honey, leaving ample post harvest to see them through winter into spring, ensuring perfect health.
We never use pesticides, we rely on nature providing a balance between garden pests and their predators.
We joined forces with Ecologi, planting a tree with every order, helping bees and the environment.
Cox’s Farm
Nestled in the remote Steart peninsula, in Somerset surrounded by the WWT Steart Marshes and the Bridgwater Bay Nature reserve, far removed from road traffic fumes and crop spraying.
Honey doesn’t get any better than this.
Steart is a haven for insect wildlife and the birds and small mammals that feed on them.
We limit our honey bee colonies to four, to avoid out-competing wild pollinators for resources on the peninsula. Our long term goal is to revert back to the native Dark European honey bee.
Our bees in Steart make a delicate flavoured honey from the wildflower nectar... Harvested in small batches. Gently gravity filtered, keeping natural enzymes intact.
Nothing added - Nothing removed.
Our honey from apiaries in Somerset, outside of Steart is labeled and sold separately and differs from colony to colony depending on where and on what plants the bees forage.
Pure beeswax candles
No additives, just the naturally occurring, delicate scent of summer honey. Find your own state of mindfulness with pure beeswax candles, Individually hand poured in our family workshop.
We keep costs down by cutting out the middleman, choosing to sell online only, with the exception of our independent stockists.
Tree planting around the world.
We plant a tree with every item sold through our partnership with ecologi.
