We love heather honey - it’s a real delicacy. The heather in the Wicklow mountains only flowers for roughly 2-3 weeks per year so its always very reliant on getting good weather for that window. Our bees have recently moved to the mountains to forage on this year’s crop. We are hoping the weather will be good to us and we can have a harvest like last year!

Heather honey has been recently studied by Trinity and DCU (2018) to show its comparable health benefits to Manuka honey. Many people pay a lot of money for a honey that is flown across the world when heather is available on your doorstep…

Heather is generally located in remote hard to reach areas of the mountains which can be difficult to access. The honey is also known as a thixotropic honey, meaning it is like a gel rather than a liquid, and therefore, can not be spun out like regular honey. We either produce it as cut comb or crush it out of the comb and filter it into jars.

OpenHive Heather honey, cut straight from the comb, won bronze at the Blas na hEireann awards last summer.