We are celebrating an amazing fifty years of Scottish Honey...
		IT WAS on V.E. Day in 1945 that Athole Kirkwood acquired his very first hive of bees. Athole had been evacuated to Strathardle to stay with relatives and decided then that he would be back to live here some day. Fifty years ago, in 1955, he brought his hives to Blairgowrie and founded Heather Hills Honey Farm. It may be that the weather was as fickle then as now. The winter of 1955 was very hard and all one hundred beehives perished. But Athole did not give up and the business somehow survived the catastrophe. The Scottish 'elements' remain a constant challenge for today’s beekeepers as they endeavour to bring you the exclusive flavours of Heather Hills Honey. Fifty years on some 1300 beehives are still moved seasonally around the Perthshire countryside to gather honey from Scotland’s nectar-yielding flowers, from willow trees in April to Ling heather in August. Perthshire’s soft fruit farms have always provided Heather Hills with valued sources of nectar. Now Heather Hills Preserves provide additional mouth-watering flavours for customers to enjoy. For fifty years Heather Hills has continued to provide high quality Scottish honey that has been savoured by generations around the world. That really is something to celebrate ...and we hope to keep up the good work for another fifty years to come!