Environmental

Sustainable Christmas gift ideas for 2020

Charlotte McMillan 4 December, 2020 Tags: Christmas, eco friendly, gift guide, small business No Comments Categories: Environmental, Gifts, Sustainability

Hi there, with wintry grey days and the restrictions of lockdown upon us, armchair shopping has never been so inviting and necessary. Here we’ve chosen three of our favourite small businesses and treated them to a Q & A session. Each offers gorgeous, Christmas gift ideas backed up with sustainability

Upcycled vintage Christmas stocking gift

Upcycled Christmas gift ideas online

Charlotte McMillan 13 November, 2020 Tags: Christmas, eco friendly, gifts, handmade, homemade, upcycling No Comments Categories: Gifts, Sustainability

Hi there, we’ve been as busy as Santa’s elves, getting ready for the launch of our new online Christmas shop. Our Honeybuns gift tins of gluten free and vegan cakes are well established online. This year we wanted to collaborate with a local craftsperson to offer something a little bit

Em’s top 10 gluten free and vegan festive gift ideas

Charlotte McMillan 3 November, 2020 Tags: buy online, Christmas, eco friendly, gifts, handmade, homemade No Comments Categories: Commercial bakery, Environmental, Gifts

Hi from all of us at Honeybuns bakery in Dorset. I’d like to thank all of our loyal customers on behalf of all of us here at Honeybuns bakery. Your online custom and fabulous feedback has kept us all motivated and crucially, enabled us to keep trading and protect jobs.

A Small Business Adapting to the New Normal

Charlotte McMillan 18 August, 2020 Tags: artisan bakery, online business No Comments Categories: Commercial bakery, Environmental, Sustainability, Trade

Here are our business tips and account of reopening and getting back to a new normal post lockdown. Hopefully you’re keeping safe & well? I thought you might like a round up of what’s going on from our niche business perspective at the moment. It’s a tale of two halves, so

A small business surviving Covid

Charlotte McMillan 5 June, 2020 Tags: commercial bakery, Dorset, handmade cakes, online business No Comments Categories: Commercial bakery, Environmental, Imported, Sustainability

Hopefully you are all keeping safe and well? I hope also that you’ve had the opportunity to enjoy some time in the kitchen trying out new recipes and maybe new ingredients too? I’m finding each day to be a bit of a roller-coaster at the moment to be honest. I

Successful survival rate of saplings from 2014 ‘Big Dig’ day.

Charlotte McMillan 25 February, 2020 Tags: beegreen, nature reserve, trees No Comments Categories: Commercial bakery, Environmental, Sustainability, Trade

Back in 2014 we held a community ‘Big Dig‘ day when 300 native trees, provided as part of The Woodland Trust Community Tree Pack, were planted in our front field by a band of over 50 volunteers. The trees were native wildlife friendly varieties which take about 7 to 8 years

Keeping our feathered friends well fed in the winter

Charlotte McMillan 21 January, 2020 Tags: beegreen, birds, nature reserve, wildlife No Comments Categories: Commercial bakery, Environmental, Gifts

Greetings from a very chilly Naish Farm. The bakery ovens are the most coveted space at Honeybuns at the moment. The warming aroma of baking cakes lifts the spirit on dark chilly mornings. The Honeybuns team are not alone in being drawn to the warmth at the bakery. The avian visitors

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