Photos from Olly's Farm's post

Started taking off the first of the late summer #honey this week 🍯🍯🍯 My busy #bees over in Dalkey have been very busy for the last couple of months and looks like a bumper crop, well over 250kg 🐝💤💤💤🍯 Clearing boards went on for a couple of days, these are a wooden board with one directional escapes that the bees go through downwards but can't return to the honey boxes. It's a very efficient way of getting the bees out of the honey boxes. I can then come along and just remove the bee free boxes 😀 The hives were pretty strong and with all them bees they would get pretty packed in just one box so I managed to make up 4 new hives for next year's honey production. I've got some newly mated queen's at home ready to go into these 🐝🐝🐝 ‪I really enjoyed munching on that piece of wild honey comb the bees built on the bottom of a frame‬ too 😋 So a big thanks to these amazing little creatures for making all this honey Oh and it's National Honey Bee Day in the US today too 🐝💤💤💤 @ Dalkey

Teeling Whiskey Distillery

Great to have it back on the shelves! 🍯🍯🍯 The #bees are loving it up there on the roof, they were really loving the new plants up on the balcony when I was in yesterday, especially the lavender flowers 🐝💤💤💤 #IrishHoney #DublinHoney

Photos from Olly's Farm's post

That's the first round of 2019 #honey off the roof of Teeling Whiskey Distillery in D8 all bottled up 🍯🍯🍯 Dropped some off and should be ready in the gift shop right now 🐝💤💤💤 Still have some more to label and drop in this weekend Won't be long until the second round of honey comes off. The #bees have been pretty busy and some of the boxes are pretty heavy 💪💪💪 #DublinHoney #IrishHoney

Timeline Photos

Delighted to be now stocked in my local Pharmacy O Regan in Oldbawn They're stocked with #honey 🍯from my #bees 🐝💤💤💤 living in #Glenasmole #Ballycullen & #Lucan Can't get more local than that Lucan softset on the way too 🍯 More info at www.ollysfarm.ie/stockists

I had Liam Geraghty up at the farm last week talking #bees & #honey 🐝💤💤💤🍯 We had some fun recording a piece for yesterday's episode of RTÉ Radio 1 #TheBusiness that was live from Bloom It was my first few words on national radio 😬 can check it out here https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/#/radio1/21563529 #IrishHoney #DublinHoney

The County Fare

Hope everyone likes it 🍯🍯🍯 spring blossom #honey and more softset on the way too 🐝💤💤💤

Photos from Olly's Farm's post

It was an early start this morning to make it into the The Convention Centre Dublin 🚙 with mum Pauline Grehan I was invited along by ECO-UNESCO for the Youth Environmentalist Awards #YEA19 I prepared my observation beehive yesterday evening to show all the kids and I've been flat out talking all about #bees and how we can all help all our pollinators, not just the honey bee 🐝💤💤💤 I've got tons of info here from Biodiversity Ireland on how we can all do our bit I've been getting the kids to find the queen & the winner have been getting a bee bomb to bring home from Beebombs Ireland It's amazing to see all the different projects that all these kids from schools all over #Ireland have created. The biodiversity section is absolutely amazing. Very positive for our future after seeing this 👍👍👍🐝💤💤💤

Teeling Whiskey Distillery

Happy #WorldBeeDay everyone 🐝💤💤💤 The #bees on the roof of Teeling Whiskey Distillery are doing great! Hoping to harvest the spring #honey 🍯🍯🍯 in the next couple of weeks & should be ready shortly after 😀 Check out the blog post I done last year if you haven't already read it

Photos from Olly's Farm's post

‪Got through the #bees on the allotments in #Ballycullen today. It's getting hard to see them now with the meadow growing. They were very busy, sun was peeping out at times but it was nice & warm! They're starting to cap the honey now & some have added nearly a super in the last 6 days. Maybe another week and then it might be time to start thinking about taking it off and getting it into jars 🐝💤💤💤 It's incredible because when I checked them 2 weeks ago they had eaten a lot of it & I was getting worried there wouldn't be a spring harvest in most of the apiaries 😬😬😬 The cold spell from the middle of April didn't allow them to fly as much & they started to eat into the honey they had collected so far. As the hive increases in number from winter into spring it's a lot of extra mouths to feed and if they can't work because it's too cold they start to eat all their honey reserves 🐝🐝🐝 But now that it's warmed up again they're busy bringing in lots of nectar & pollen. There maybe another week or so left of the whitethorn so hopefully they'll top up the excess honey stores 😀 Made some new hives too by taking some frames of bees from the stronger hives & taking them home 🐝🐝🐝 #irishhoney #dublinhoney‬

SuperValu Ireland

Thanks to SuperValu Ireland and the #FoodAcademy I'm stocked in my two locals, SuperValu Knocklyon and SuperValu, Firhouse. Hoping to increase my number of #beehives again this year (if the weather ever warms up) and adding a couple more stores to the list 🐝💤💤💤🍯 #bees #IrishHoney #DublinHoney

Photos from Olly's Farm's post

First little harvest of pollen from my #bees here at home today 🐝💤💤💤 Goes into the dehydrator to remove the moisture and stop it from going moldy Then it's cleaned by hand to remove bits of #beehive debris and then straight into jars There are lots of articles online about the health benefits of pollen #IrishHoney #DublinHoney

Cara had her calf

Cara had her little calf last night, I saw she was close to calving when I was popping out for a while and I was driving by the fence an hour later and saw two little feet sticking out. By the time I got in the gate and walked over to her he popped out and she was getting up onto her feet again to give him a good lick. I left them to it and went for dinner, but by 9.30 it was dark, raining and cold and when I went up to check him he hadnt had a drink yet so carried him down to the stable while Cara walked behind on a halter. Got him suckling after a while and once his belly was full he was curled up in the corner fast asleep.