Galtee Honey Farm is run by the Mac Giolla Codas, a well known beekeeping family in Ireland. Micheál and Aoife are both certified lecturers in beekeeping. Micheál is also a qualified honey judge, having judged in honey competitions and shows both nationally and internationally.
Galtee Honey Farm has about 150 hives of honey bees. These hives are sited in groups called apiaries throughout the Galtee Vee Valley and stretch over the three counties of Cork, Limerick and Tipperary. This ensures that the bees are collecting honey from a wide variety of flora including sycamore and horse chestnut blossom, dandelion, oilseed rape, hawthorn, blackberry blossom, clover and heather. It is all these flowers which gives Galtee honey its complexity of flavour.
Pure Native Black Queens
Micheál and Aoife have both spent many years teaching beekeeping skills to others. They are committed to promoting the conservation of the native honeybees of Ireland, known as ‘Black Bees’. They breed them for their excellent traits in Irish weather conditions. They specialise in rearing and breeding Black Queen Bees for beekeepers around Ireland.
Hello,
Do you supply queens to Scotland?
I am trying to get my bees as pure amm
as possible here on the west coast in Argyll.
Thanks,
Paul
Hi Paul,
Apologies for delay in replying. I do not supply queens outside of Republic of Ireland.
Best Regards
Aoife
Hi Aoife,
many congrats on your blas gong! Well done!
And thank you so much for the lovely comb honey: had it with the porridge this morning: delicious.
Best wishes,
John McKenna
Hi John, Delighted with award. And glad you have been enjoying the honey.
Best Regards
Aoife
Hi
I got some honey from you at Easter 2017, the Ivy honey, unfortunately I got your last jars as you were sold out.
I will get my mother to get more and bring it to me in England at Christmas. Out of interest can you tell me if your honey is raw.
Hi Arthur
Yes our honey is raw. We do not pasteurise it or raise the temperature above 40 degrees. 42 degrees is cut off point for raw honey. Before we fill it into the jars we just gently warm it so that it is decrystalised and will pour.
Best Regards
Aoife