Producers
Wainwright’s Bee Farm
beekeeper · honey producer · honey packer · honey importer and wholesaler
Glanfred Lane, Talybont/Llandre area, Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom
Tropical Forest Products Limited
Wainwright’s Bee Farm is the honey-producing brand of Tropical Forest Products Limited, an active Welsh private company incorporated in 1990. The business combines honey from its own UK apiaries with Organic Zambian Forest Honey sourced through forest-beekeeper supply chains. It also packs honey for its own label and selected retailers.
About the Producer
A little history
Tropical Forest Products Limited was incorporated on 19 October 1990. Co-founder David Wainwright and his partner Sarah established Wainwright’s Bee Farm that year, importing organic forest honey from Zambia after David’s earlier work there. The company later developed UK bee-farm production alongside its import activity.
How They Work
Beekeeping in practice
Wainwright’s operates as a producer, packer, and importer. It keeps hives across Wales and England for named UK honeys, while Tropical Forest Products imports Organic Zambian Forest Honey. The business also sources some British and EU varieties from selected producers and supplies honey under the Wainwright’s label and selected retailers’ labels, including in bulk.
Talybont / Llandre, Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom
Public company and event sources locate the operating base in the Talybont/Llandre area.
Wales
The producer states that its own hives are scattered across Wales and England, producing Welsh varieties including wildflower and heather honey.
England, including Shropshire and Salisbury Plain
The producer lists Shropshire and Salisbury Plain honeys among varieties produced from its own hives.
Miombo forests / woodlands of north-west Zambia
Organic Zambian Forest Honey is described as gathered by rural forest beekeepers in Miombo woodlands of north-west Zambia.
Scotland
The Guild of Fine Food lists Wainwright's Single Glen Scottish Heather Honey. The relationship is product provenance/marketing only; the consulted evidence does not establish that Wainwright's itself operates the Scottish apiary.
Ukraine
The Guild of Fine Food lists Wainwright's Ukrainian Honey. The consulted evidence does not establish the supplying beekeeper, collection region, or Wainwright's operational presence there.
Products & Specimens
What connects to this producer
Products listed by the Producer are kept separate from specimens held in the Collection.
Organic Zambian Forest Honey
Floral source: Diverse Miombo-forest forage; no single floral source claimed.
Documented origin: Miombo forests / woodlands of north-west Zambia
Origin detail: Region
The official producer page describes organic forest honey from Zambia's Miombo forests. A wholesale product listing narrows this to Miombo woodlands of north-west Zambia and says it is gathered by rural beekeepers using traditional bark hives.
Welsh wildflower honey
Floral source: Wildflower
Documented origin: Wales
Origin detail: Region
Listed by the producer as a variety from its own hives; the producer says those hives are located across Wales and England. No narrower Welsh harvest location is supported on the consulted official page.
Welsh heather honey
Floral source: Heather
Documented origin: Wales
Origin detail: Region
Listed by the producer as a honey from its own hives. The producer has also publicly described Welsh heather honey as derived from Calluna vulgaris flowering on Welsh mountain uplands, but no single apiary location was established here.
Salisbury Plain Honey
Floral source: Not specified
Documented origin: Salisbury Plain, England
Origin detail: Region
Listed by the producer among honeys produced from its own hives; the table-honey page also lists Salisbury Plain Honey as a Wainwright's Bee Farm variety.
Shropshire spring honey
Floral source: Not specified
Documented origin: Shropshire, England
Origin detail: Region
Listed by the producer among its own-hive varieties.
Shropshire summer honey
Floral source: Not specified
Documented origin: Shropshire, England
Origin detail: Region
Listed by the producer among its own-hive varieties.
Borage Honey
Floral source: Borage
Documented origin: United Kingdom; precise harvest area not established
Origin detail: Country
The producer lists Borage Honey among Wainwright's Bee Farm varieties made from its own bees, but the consulted source does not assign a more specific location.
Single Farm English Lowland Honey
Floral source: Not specified
Documented origin: English lowland, England
Origin detail: Region
Listed as an award-winning Wainwright's Bee Farm product by the Guild of Fine Food.
People
People connected to the work
- David Wainwright Co-founder; company director; beekeeper
- Dawn Wainwright Family-business collaborator
- Hazel Coulson Beekeeper
Practices
How they work
- Produces separate, location-led UK honey varieties from its own hives rather than treating all honey as a single generic product.
- Supplies Organic Zambian Forest Honey certified by the Soil Association.
- Works with Zambian forest beekeepers and traditional bark-hive systems for its forest honey supply.
- Packs bee-farm honey both under its own label and for selected quality-retailer labels.
Sources for this profile
- tropicalforest.com
- tropicalforest.com
- tropicalforest.com
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
- businessnewswales.com
- gff.co.uk
- infinityfoodswholesale.coop
- cambrian-news.co.uk
- uk.linkedin.com
- cambrian-news.co.uk
- businesswales.gov.wales
- businesswales.gov.wales
- tropicalforest.com
- businesswales.gov.wales