The bee’s knees
Add a little something special to your next dish with Rowse, the squeeze that protects the bees
Sometimes it’s the simplest ingredients that are behind the most delicious dishes. Take Rowse Honey, for example. Just one squeeze of this delectable golden nectar is all you need to take your meals from humdrum to seriously yum!
So much more than a breakfast time favourite, Rowse Honey can complement plenty of your savoury dishes too, from a speedy midweek stir-fry to heavenly glazed salmon. And if you’re looking to shortcut your way to intense flavour, the new Rowse Chilli Fusion is the perfect way to do it. Infused with guajillo and bird’s-eye chilli, it’s a convenient, all-natural way to bring some heat to the sweet flavours in any dish. You can use it to marinade your chicken or even drizzle it over a comforting slice of pizza for maximum flavour with minimum effort.
Bee better
More than 80 years have passed since Tony Rowse first started keeping bees, but the company’s ethos remains the same: great tasting honey starts with quality ingredients. Even today, Rowse can trace each bottle of honey back to the beekeeper. Its British Honey, for instance, is exclusively made by bees who forage on British flowers, resulting in a light, traditional tasting honey with orchard notes. Then there’s the delectable Greek Honey. Produced by bees who forage in Greek forests, this one has a rich dark brown colour and notes of liquorice, aniseed and malt. One thing both varieties have in common is they’re 100% pure and natural, just as nature intended.
Hives for lives
A sustainable future for honey bees is, in part, reliant on the wonderful, skilled beekeepers who nurture them. So, to help inspire and train the next generation, since 2014 Rowse and the Bee Farmers Association have worked together to run a unique three-year apprenticeship scheme. The aim is to equip young people with the skills needed to take up this fulfilling profession – and that’s not the only way it’s keeping our bees buzzing.
In the last 100 years, it’s estimated the UK has gone from 7.5 million acres of wildflower meadows to just 26,000, resulting in a huge decline in pollinators. To restore vital nectar sources, Rowse is regenerating more than five hectares of wildflowers on the Blenheim Estate near its home in Wallingford.
Since 2020, it has also given away more than one million wildflower seeds to its customers, so they can grow their own nectar-rich food for bees, plus it has funded important research into bee health for over 11 years.
Further afield, Rowse is working with the charity Bees for Development on an Ethiopian initiative that will create 1,000 new bee colonies, 200 new bee keepers and impact the lives of 300 families.