The Lake District Honey Company produces exceptional home-made, Cumbrian honey from the Lowther Castle estate in Penrith – a stunning part of the Lake District’s cultural heritage. Jim Lowther started keeping his own bees in 2015, in self-furnished wooden hives, and there are now over 600 beehives across the estate.
Passionate about sustainable land management and regenerative agriculture, the bee colonies are an integral part of Jim’s estate plan. With extensive planting of new trees and creation of new grasslands within the medieval park – which is home to plants including oak, sycamore, maple, lime and chestnut trees, farm crops, wildflowers and heather – the honeybees have an incredibly varied diet, improving both their honey yield and its flavour.
Each of the Lake District Honey Co’s delicious jars – like their Bampton Valley Wildflower Honey, Shap Fell Heather Honey, or Lowther Castle Blossom Honey – can be traced back to almost the exact Cumbrian field or fell where they originated, representing a truly local honey.
