Pollen – benefits for bees and humans
Pollen is an extremely important part of honeybee nutrition and provides bees with proteins, vitamins, lipids, and minerals.
September 17, 2021
— Our Product Range —
— Featured Products —
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Medium Gift Box
€79.34 -
Bread Wrap
€16.00 -
Large Kitchen Pack
€20.00 -
Hanna’s Bees Wildflower Honey
€6.50 – €8.00 -
Large Beeswax Pillar Candle
€27.00 – €52.00
Honeybees are amazing!
Not only do they make honey and beeswax, but they are also utterly captivating little creatures and wonderful to work with.
Read more about our bees.
My Story
I have the best job in the world! This thought runs through my head every single time I put on my bee suit, and it makes me feel incredibly lucky and happy. After nearly twenty years of designing and making wedding dresses, I took the plunge and became a full-time beekeeper. It has been a steep learning curve, not without complications and lots of hard work, but it’s a job so rewarding that I look forward to going out to work every single day.
About Our Business
Hanna’s Bees is run by Hanna Bäckmo, a Cork-based beekeeper with a relentless passion for edible gardening, nature, and sustainability.
A hive-to-home business, Hanna’s Bees has several apiaries in East and South Cork with 50 honeybee colonies producing honey, beeswax and propolis for our unique range of products.
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Feeding bees, why do we do it?
Early on in my beekeeping days I received a text-message from an acquaintance who had bought a year’s supply of honey from me. It went something like this:
‘Hanna, can you swear, hand on heart, that your honey is not just sugar water that you have fed to your bees?’
March 27, 2021
Fake honey
There is a lot of talk about fake honey and adulteration of honey. And for good reasons too. Honey is one of the most faked foods in the world, often making it to the top ten of the common food fraud lists. You will find reports about fake imported ‘honey’ made up from syrup with added colourants and hear about honeybees kept in enclosed environments and fed syrup to invert into honey.
March 25, 2021
What is soft set honey and how is it made?
It is often said that the Irish prefer clear, runny honey, and while this may be true, many of us foreigners prefer granulated or soft set honey. It might be a cultural thing, influenced by the type of forage available and the cuisine of different parts of the world, but there is definitely a growing taste for ‘different’ honey here, including soft set honey be it multi- or monofloral.
March 24, 2021
