Dani’s bees

Multi award winning Honey & Beeswax products with a BUZZ

Eat. 🐝 Buzz. 🐝 Repeat. 🐝 So back I went to reading and studding on my own to get better prepared.
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My journey into beekeeping started back in 2016 when I was looking for extra pollination for the plants, grown at our poly tunnel. After some months of extensive research and reading about all the things that can go wrong - I enrolled to beginners beekeeping course in Elgin (in June 2017) which made me fascinated by the wonderful honeybees but terrified at the same time. I wasn't ready yet and feared I can kill them if I start. During the winter of 2017/2018 I attended Aberdeen & District Beekeeping Association (ADBKA) Beginners Classes for beekeepers and actually decided that it's time I get hands on - so far reading about bees got me prepared and aware of the million factors to be considered, so I was not going to get any more ready, so off I went and put my name on the waiting list. So on 08th may 2018 I bought my first colony from ADBKA, transported the precious cargo from Crathes Castle, over the Cairn O'Mount to home and just like that I was a beekeeper :)

Fast forward and few swarms later - I passed the Scottish Beekeepers Association Basic Beekeeping exam (with distinction) and was awarded a BB certificate so it all become official - the rest is a history....

So far every competition I've entered - I walked away with an award or few at the different classes I competed in;

so to date Dani's Bees honey and beeswax have 31 awards, namely:

2021
ADBKA honey show- Best in Show - the A.S.C.D Trophy for best exhibit

ADBKA honey show - The President's trophy- for Heather honey that year

ADBKA honey show - The Bill MacKenzie quaich - the best exhibit in Ling Heather honey

2022
Royal Highland Show - 1st prize in class HY52 - Chutney with honey

Royal Highland Show - 2nd prize in class HY46 - Honey Gingerbread

Royal Highland Show - 2nd prize in class HY47 - Honey cake (awarded and then disqualified due to shape of cake)

Royal Highland Show - 1st prize on class HY43 - coloured photography

Royal Highland Show - 3rd prize in class HY44 - black&white photography

Scottish National Championship - 2nd prize in class 4 - Soft Set Honey

Scottish National Championship - 2nd prize in class 7 - Heather Honey blend

Scottish National Championship- 3rd prize in class 24 - Beeswax photography

Scottish National Championship- Very Highly Commended in class 19 - Display of beeswax

Scottish National Championship- Commended in class 16 - Frame of Ling Heather honey

ADBKA Honey Show -1st prize in class 35b- Photography, close up

ADBKA Honey Show- 2nd prize in class 35c-Photography, not close up

ADBKA Honey Show - 2nd prize in class 23 - candles

ADBKA Honey Show - 3rd prize in class 5 - Bell Heather Honey

ADBKA Honey Show - 3rd prize in class 36 - Shop Window Display

ADBKA Honey Show - 3rd prize in class 39- Honey Shortbread (made by Tamsyn with my honey)

ADBKA Honey Show- 3rd prize in class 42 - Honey Flapjack (made by Tamsyn with my honey)

2023
Royal Highland Show - 1st prize in class 3 - Dark Honey

Royal Highland Show - 1st prize in class 21 - Moulded beeswax

Royal Highland Show - 2nd prize in class 12 - Frame of Ling Heather Honey for Cut Comb

Royal Highland Show - 2nd prize in class 10 - Six jars, labelled for sale - Fettercairn Honey

Royal Highland Show - 2nd prize in class 50 - Honey Tablet (made by Miss V with my heather honey)

Royal Highland Show - 3rd prize in class 31 - 'For Sale' display of honey and beeswax products

Scottish National Honey Show - 1st Prize in Class 17 - One Cake of beeswax more than 454g

Scottish National Honey Show - 2nd Prize in Class 16 - One Shallow frame Ling Heather Honey

Scottish National Honey Show - 2nd Prize in Class 26 - Display of Exibits

Scottish National Honey Show - 3rd Prize in Class 19 - Display of Beeswax in any shape

Scottish National Honey Show - Very Highly Commended award in Class 34 - Honey Marmalade (made by Mearns Marmalades with my heather honey)

Scottish National Honey Show - Highly Commended Award in Class 15 - One shallow frame of Honey, excluding Heather

Scottish National Honey Show - Highly Commended Award in Class 14 - Cut comb Ling Heather Honey

Scottish National Honey Show - Commended Award in Class 22 - Three beeswax candles not moulded

Next step - Getting ready for Royal Highland Show 2024 and hoping for a trophy! to be continued ...

26/09/2025

FFBFF (Fav Fun Bee Fact Friday), Week 39 🧱

25/09/2025

Hey, honeys 👋 there’s new kid in town 🍯

Meet Dun Honey 🍯 - the latest addition to my labels 🐝

Wait until you try it - it might 🐝come your next favourite 🤩 fans

Available:
🖱️online https://shop.danisbees.co.uk/b/lptQZ

🏬 at R Doig & Sons in Montrose

⛺️ at my stall for all my upcoming markets and events

Expand 🍯 Buzz 🍯 Repeat 🍯

24/09/2025

Update - ALL Sorted ✅ message delivered and got in touch with the lady - very many thanks to all honeys for your help and assistance 🙏 it’s much apreciated - the power of community 🙇🏻‍♀️ x

This is a long shot, BUT needs - must 🙄

I committed to doing a bee talk for the ladies at the British Legion for their October meeting in Montrose, but I can no longer make this, as I won’t be in the country then. 😞

Therefore I’m trying to reach out to the lovely lady that came to ask me to do it as I can’t find any email or messages with her details and don’t remember her name 🫣to let her know, so hoping this message will reach her.

Sorry, but can’t make it and can’t help it. 🙏

Hope you find another speaker easily with plenty of notice 🗣️

22/09/2025

It’s a very sad sight when a baggage reclaim belt works just for your single bag 🙀 but I’ve had enough today so cut my losses and got off the plane 🫣

Now the long sobby story:
After spending over 14 hours at the airport today after my flight from Sofia, waiting for the Copenhagen flight that got pushed further and further, boarded and sat inside the second plane for over 2 extra hours and reached the point that even the crew had to be changed, I had enough and got off it 😳
On a positive note - heading home now to sort out all pending online orders and send them on their way sooner than planned AND if anyone fancies using my return flight or my fancy hotel at Copenhagen - give me a buzz

Apimondia 2025 - it wasn’t meant to bee 👋

Better luck next year in Dubai ✈️

Looking forward to passing out in my bed once I get there 🛏️ 💤

20/09/2025

When your neighbor is this famous truffle hunter 🍄 and takes you on adventure ⛰ 🐕 🐕 🐕 ...... you guessed it - Xmas special this year will BEE honey with truffles 😱 🎄

08/09/2025

HapBEE Monday, honeys!
That’s me away from Scotland for a while 👋

After being questioned at security for smuggling out Scottish daffodils 🙄😳 now waiting at the gate with the healthiest snack around (blues 🫐 fresh from North Mains of Dun, pollinated by my girls 🐝) and away to get educated with Oor Wullie (courtesy of the Kilt Mannie 🙏 ), so the shenanigans already began 🙃

I’m away to Bulgaria 🇧🇬 for couple of weeks and then off to Denmark 🇩🇰 for Apimonia so won’t 🐝 back in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 for a whiley

Don’t miss me too much, but if you do need your honey fix - the kilt shoppe at R Doig & Sons is fully stocked 🍯

I’ll bee very contactable while away for all things bee chats and honey, so feel free to give me a buzz 🐝

Have a fab September all and I’ll see you 🔜

Dani x

03/09/2025

HapBEE National 🍯 month, honeys!

What’s your favourite honey / honey product or food/drink with honey to celebrate it?

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🍯✨ It’s National Honey Month! All September, we’re celebrating the incredible work of honey , the dedication of , and the pure, golden sweetness that honey brings to our lives.

Honey isn’t just a delicious treat, it’s a symbol of , power, and nature’s ingenuity. Whether you’re drizzling it on breakfast, baking with it, or stirring it into your favorite drink, every drop supports sustaining our and vibrant food system. 🌎

How are you enjoying this month? Join us and our partners all September to see how you can support honey bees through your purchase of honey and made-with-honey products! 💛 🍯 🐝

Learn more at honeysaveshives.com.

31/08/2025

I’m very happy to report that that’s all the 2025 season honey taken off the hives and brought hame ✅

And what a harvest it was 😱🤗🤤🤩👌🏻🍯

I’ve got a few new honey labels to add to the collection (such as Dun and Morphie again 🙌), but the highlight is the Heather honey - absolutely phenomenal at all my apiaries this year (Cairn O Mount, Arrnbarrow, Upper Thainstone and East Mains of Balfour 👌🏻🐝👌🏻🐝👌🏻🐝even the bees at the distillery down at Fettercairn collected some Heather this year 😱) - never seen anything like that and really, really happy with the crop 🍯

As a proud member of The Honey Guild of the United Kingdom, I’m making sure that only the BEEst of the BEEst gets to you, so trust me - Xmas will 🐝 special this year with all those cut combs on your cheese boards 🤩🎄

https://shop.danisbees.co.uk/b/xzVMb

Autumn treatment is ON and the bees are still collecting their last forage (loads of ghosties 👻 working the Himalayan balsam and some bright orange pollen coming in, which is a mystery to me 🤔), so that’s it - I’m leaving them a super each of their own honey and what they collect from now on and starting feeding tomorrow 🗓️ so off to Costco to buy a million bags of sugar 🥄

HapBEE Sunday, everyone 🐝

27/08/2025

🤭the bees are trying the steal back what I’ve just stolen from them 😳

It’s rather lively in the car 🤣

Oh the lengths I go to 😉 just to make sure you’ve got the bees knees 🍯 on your toasts 😝

25/08/2025

And so it began …. Summer 🍯 harvest 2025 💪

I’ll BEE quiet here this week so pls pardon my absence, but I’m busy taking the honey off the hives, giving them their autumn treatment and starting winter feeding 🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

The plan is to do the low ground apiaries this week (so that’ll bee Morphie, Dun, Fettercairn and Fasque, Balfour and Thainstone) and next week - it’ll be turn to the Heather honey and taking the rest of the hives down the hills, so 🤞🏻 the weather is on my side and BEEhave 🙏

Work hard 🐝 get sticky fingers 🍯 Repeat 🐝

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