Killucan Honey

22/06/2026

Spring wildflower honey from Dandelion, Horse chestnut, Hawthorne, sycamore & spring wildflowers now available below.

Retailers restocked
Foxes Fox's Fruit and Veg Mullingar
Tormeys Butchers Harbour shopping centre Mullingar
JJ Quinn Butchers Kinnegad
AJ newsagents Coralstown
Spar Killucan village
Weirs shop Raharney
Mullingar Pewter Cafe
JM fruit & veg Oldcastle
Delighted to be now stocking Kearney's news agents Castlepollard https://www.facebook.com/share/18QYsNBgNN/
At the honesty box N91F620 but please first text 086 300 0401 to check availability.

18/06/2026

Harvesting spring honey 2026. Early on a misty morning the honey is removed off the hives and moved to the honey house. The beeswax sealing the honey is uncapped from the frames. The frames are spun out in the centrifuge and honey is allowed to settle and then jarred up and labeled. Each morning this week I took honey off the hives and all done in a few hours from hive to jar. No heating or fine filtering, just raw honey full of natural enzymes & yeasts and full of local pollen. Out to the shops slowly from the weekend on wards, please bee patience its a mental time.

16/06/2026

Just getting the hedges trimmed.

14/06/2026

Time to harvest some spring honey.

13/06/2026

At long last, EU labeling regulations are changing. While we have full traceability system for our honey & inspections it's disheartening to see a jar of non EU / EU honey with no source country & information if they blend it

08/06/2026

This weather is a disaster. Inspections must go on between showers and over 60% of swarm control is complete. Blackberry is out but ideally need 20°C with high humidity for a good flow. Our native honeybees are out between showers. One hive from a supersedure queen, good docility even in horrible weather, good brood pattern and no sign of varroa or chalk brood.

08/06/2026

Great day out yesterday
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A great turnout in Tullamore today for John Summerville’s Native Irish Honey Bee Society 2026 Queen Rearing and Bee Improvement Day.

It was possibly the greatest gathering of world-class beekeepers in Ireland since the well-remembered meetings at Gormanstown. Not only did we witness this remarkable coming together, but everyone benefitted greatly from the sharing of knowledge, ideas, and experience throughout the day, followed by tea and conversation afterwards.

A special thank you to all our members, new supporters, and the many interested beekeepers who travelled to attend, especially on a day when the weather was threatening to be moist, to say the least!

We are particularly grateful to the many new visitors who came to learn more about the Native Irish Black Honey Bee, Apis mellifera mellifera. We truly appreciate you taking the chance to venture out on what was a very dull day in many parts of Ireland, though thankfully not in the fortunate microclimate of Clonminch Lane.

Thank you all for making a such a memorable and inspiring day.

05/06/2026

We are in now in what beekeepers call the June gap where the spring flowers have finished like Hawthorne and we are waiting for the main summer flow to start. There is little forage out for bees at the moment in the midlands. Hopefully the heat at the end of next week will open the blackberry flower and yield nectar.

29/05/2026

Great service from Peter Nea removing stubborn beeswax and propolis from a dual uncapping tank and for melting beeswax cappings. Good as new, getting ready for harvesting soon.
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28/05/2026

Swarm arriving into some nuc boxes. Rehomed it into a bigger brood box & super.