Bees

Ireland has 102 different species of bee, the majority of which are wild and live in our natural landscape. Ireland has only one honey bee - Apis mellifera mellifera

Ireland has one of the largest and purest genetic strains of Apis mellifera mellifera, also known as the European Dark honey. This once prolific bee, is now limited to a few geographic locations, Ireland being one of them. We are working hard to conserve our native honey bee. With your support we can continue to help our native bee thrive.

You can see more about the scientific research going on here.

Buy Honey

You can purchase honey directly from us on our online Shop.

You can also purchase our honey in the following stores:

Dublin

• Avoca (Various locations)

• Bread 41 (Pearse St, Dublin 2)

• Cavistons Food Emporium (Glasthule, Co. Dublin)

• Morton’s (Ranelagh, Dublin 6)

• Park Lane Deli (Chapelizod, Dublin 20)

• Partners at Law (Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin)

• The Devlin Hotel (Ranelagh, Dublin 6)

• The Hopsack (Rathmines, Dublin 6)

• The Punnet Health Store (Glasthule, Co. Dublin)

• Windyridge Nurseries & Garden Centre (Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin)

• 64 Wine (Glasthule, Co. Dublin)

Wicklow

• Avoca (Various loacations)

• Abercorn Farm (Greystones)

• Arboretum (Kilquade)

• Conlon’s Wine Bar (Bray)

• Cullens Butchers (Wicklow Town)

• Eleven Deli (Greystones)

• Kelly’s Fruit & Veg (Wicklow Town)

• Scéal Bakery (Greystones)

• The Craft Butcher (Rathdrum)

• The Good Life (Wicklow Town)

• The Happy Pear (Greystones)

• The Wicklow Wine Company (Wicklow Town)

Galway

• Ard Bia (Spanish Arch, Galway city)

• Coyle’s of Connemara (Clifden, Co. Galway)

• Gran Grans Foods (Kilcolgan, Co. Galway)

• Hapi Bakery (Sea Road, Galway city)

• KAI (Sea Road, Galway city)

• My Little Flower (Oughterard, Co. Galway)

• Plámás Café (Dominick St, Galway city)

• The Dean Galway (Prospect Hill, Galway city)

• The Lán Kitchen (Monivea, Co. Galway)

• Wild Beans (Kinvara, Co. Galway)

Further afield

• &Open (online gifts website)

• Evenstone (online gifts website)

• Flout Pizza (Newtownards Road, Belfast)

• One19 Coffee (Templemore, Tipperary)
  

Process

We extract our local honey ourselves and jar it all in our honey house, adhering to the latest honey requirements from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We screen-print our jars to eliminate the need for single-use plastic labelling and our the jars can be returned for future reuse.

OpenHive bees can be found in 26 apiaries across Dublin, Wicklow & Galway.

We keep our Irish black bees naturally, with as few interventions as possible.