Description

Polloney™ is a delicious mix of fresh local bee pollen suspended in our raw honey.

The bees collect the pollen from the flowers and trees of the Cheshire countryside and store it on the basket on their back legs. On returning to the hive they squeeze through a specially shaped mesh dislodging the pollen which then falls into a tray.

We collect the pollen at the end of each day then carefully mix it with pure, coarse filtered, unpasteurised, Cheshire spring honey.

The pollen pellets that can be seen through the jar are all different colours and flavours depending on which flowers the bees have collected from.

Bee pollen contains trace amounts of minerals and vitamins and is also very high in protein and carbohydrates.

What makes Polloney so special?

• Polloney is made using fresh bee pollen. Fresh pollen is enormously rich in proteins, vitamins, minerals, beneficial fatty acids, carotenoids, and bioflavonoids which are anti-viral, antibacterial. Pollen is the only plant source that contains the exclusive vitamin B12. Drying pollen destroys many of the naturally occurring live enzymes, and vitamins and bioflavinoids. It also changes the sweet flavour of the pollen grains into something bitter and sour, the texture of the granules from from smooth and pliable into powdery and dry and the fragrance from deeply floral into acrid and dusty.

• Polloney is made using local bee pollen. We collect all our pollen within a ten mile radius of Plumley Honey House. The pollen traps are set early in the morning and the pollen harvested at the end of the day or at the first hint that rain may be on its way. Collecting pollen requires warm, sunny weather, a plentiful flower source and hives full of strong, healthy bees. The British climate presents a real challenge to collecting pollen here in Cheshire which is why virtually all pollen sold in the UK is imported from Spain or China.

• Polloney is made using bee pollen collected from a wide variety of local flowers. It contains pollen collected throughout the whole of the beekeeping season, from the early April through to August. This ensures that the pollen is from a wide range of trees, hedgerows, wild flowers, farmer’s crops and garden flowers. The diversity of the floral sources can be shown by the array of colours of the pollen grains that can be seen in in a jar of Polloney. You may be surprised at how much each teaspoon may vary in taste depending on the floral source of the pollen grains it contains.

• Polloney is made using raw, local spring honey collected within a ten mile radius of Plumley Honey House. It is a multifloral spring honey which is cold gravity extracted, unpasteurised, only coarse filtered and 100% pure and natural. We never expose honey to a higher temperature than would normally occur in the hive so all the natural properties are preserved.

Ingredients:

Cheshire Spring honey, Cheshire pollen

Serving suggestion:

Half to one teaspoon taken daily straight out of the jar which should then last about a month. It is best taken about a month before the first tree pollen appears and then continued throughout the season.

It should not be added to hot drinks as the heat can damage some of the natural properties.

Precautions:

• As some people may have a severe allergy to pollen or other bee products, a very small dose of Polloney should be tried initially, building up slowly over a week or two.
• Polloney and all honey is not suitable for infants under twelve months of age.