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Bee swarm collection in Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross is classic heather-honey country — big glens, Caledonian pine, arable strath and a thousand feet of elevation between valley and moor. Honey bees here thrive on hill forage.

Forage & honey flows

The lower Strath Earn and Strath Tay are productive rape and raspberry country in May and early June — and Tayside raspberry honey is a distinctive and widely admired flow. Sycamore is heavy on estate parkland; lime lines Perth and Crieff streets. The defining late-summer flow is ling heather across the Perthshire glens — Glen Shee, Glen Lyon, Rannoch and Atholl — with long-established commercial apiaries migrating in. Bilberry, rowan and hill herbs supplement; ivy on stone villages finishes the year.

Beekeeping character

Perthshire Beekeepers' Association is one of the most heather-focused in Scotland, with many members running substantial migratory apiaries. Collectors know estate cottages, glen farms and Perth market-town chimneys equally well.

Towns in Perth and Kinross

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Beekeeping associations near Perth and Kinross

Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations that support swarm collection in this area.

  • Alnwick Beekeepers

    NE65 9QH· approx. 198 km

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  • Carlisle Beekeepers

    CA6 4HN· approx. 199 km

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  • Hexham Beekeepers

    NE46 3NB· approx. 214 km

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  • Newcastle and District Beekeepers

    NE12 8EH· approx. 225 km

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  • Cockermouth Beekeepers

    CA13 0AU· approx. 227 km

  • Tyneside Beekeepers

    NE9 5AX· approx. 232 km

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Association data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.

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