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Ewyas Harold is a large village in the southern Golden Valley of Herefordshire, at the mouth of the Dore valley below the Black Mountains. The village has a Norman motte-and-bailey castle mound, a medieval church and a village centre, and sits in one of the most productive agricultural valleys in the Welsh Marches. Dore Abbey, one of the finest Cistercian churches in Britain, stands two miles north at Abbey Dore; the cider-apple orchards and hop yards of the Golden Valley run on every side. The Herefordshire BKA covers the village, and the surrounding landscape — the orchards and deep hedges of the Dore valley, the bilberry and gorse of the Black Mountains immediately to the west and the Wye Valley woodland to the east — gives local bees a rich mixed-forage season.

The season opens on tens of thousands of tonnes of orchard blossom — cider apple, culinary apple and traditional perry pear — across the Leominster and Hereford belt. Hawthorn on deep double-hedges follows; hop gardens provide a quieter supplementary forage. Lime and sweet chestnut dot the market towns. The Black Mountain foothills add bilberry, heather and gorse to hives on the county edge, and bramble is dense throughout. A long, strong ivy flow on red-sandstone churches and orchard windbreaks carries the year out.