Welcome to Ramsbottom Honey where beekeeping friends Brendan and Ruth keep bees, supply honey, bees, beekeeping equipment and beekeeping courses to the local community, schools and corporate clients across the local area and around Greater Manchester. #savethebees #ramsbottomhoney
Welcome to Ramsbottom Honey where beekeeping friends Brendan and Ruth keep bees, supply honey, bees, beekeeping equipment and beekeeping courses to the local community, schools and corporate clients across the local area and around Greater Manchester. #savethebees #ramsbottomhoney
About The Team
At Ramsbottom Honey we currently manage in excess of 20 hives (depending on the time of year). As well as a number of hives at other sites |out apiaries | corporate client premises, the team run various courses including Beekeeper Taster Sessions, an Introduction to Beekeeping as well as offering Beekeeping Talks to local community groups and schools. The ever popular Meet the Bees Sessions will be making a return in 2026 too!

The Bee Degree
The Bee Degree is a bespoke, customisable scheme to encourage children to explore and engage with the natural world and experience beekeeping first-hand. Working with local community groups and schools Ramsbottom Honey offers educational visits, talks and opportunities to explore and sample first-hand the world of beekeeping.
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Save The Bees
Bees and other pollinators are critical, yet our wild bees are in decline.
We rely so heavily on these beautiful insects, over one third of everything we eat would disappear from our tables without our pollinating insects.
“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees = no more pollination = no more plants = no more animals = no more man“ Albert Enstein
Britain’s Honeybee colonies are now increasing thanks to the increasing number of British hobby beekeepers. You can bee the change…….
If beekeeping is not for you, then why not play your part by:
We can learn such a lot from these beautiful creatures including: