Galtee Honey Farm Feirm Meala na nGailte Céad míle fáilte One hundred thousand welcomes Location and History Galtee Honey Farm is situated at the foot of the Galtee Mountains in the beautiful Galtee/Vee valley it is our home and bee breeding apiary and is based at Glengarra Wood beside the main Cork/Dublin road, mid way between Mitchelstown and Cahir.

The proprietors of this small beekeeping enterprise are Micheál and Joan Mac Giolla Coda and they have lived at this location for the past 30 years keeping bees first as a hobby and then producing honey for sale as a sideline.

Micheál has been a member of the South Tipperary Beekeepers Association and the Federation of Irish Bee keepers Associations for most of that time.

Joan is mainly involved in handling, processing, packaging and marketing of honey and dealing with orders for queen honey bees and dispatch of our Dark Galtee Queens.

Micheál has been involved with the management of the honey production colonies while at the same time accumulating a vast knowledge of the theory and practice of beekeeping.

Having attended beekeeping courses at home and abroad he has taken all grades of beekeeping examinations at the Federation's annual Summer Course Gormanston College in Co. Meath. Having passed his Senior Beemaster's and Lecturer's examinations he undertook a programme of research into the conservation, breeding and improvement of local strains of The Dark European Honeybee (Apis mellifera mellifera). This resulted in his being conferred with the National Diploma in Science in Apiculture at the Cork Institute of Technology.

A long standing and successful exhibitor at Honey Shows including the Irish and British National Honey Shows, Micheál has also passed the Senior Honey Judge's examinations of the Irish and British Beekeepers Associations and is regularly invited to judge at major honey shows in these islands.

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Will give you details of Galtee Honey and Dark Galtee queens, along with order forms for these Galtee honey farm products, as well as an insight into many aspects of beekeeping, including how to gain training and education in beekeeping and detailed instructions on both queen finding and queen introduction. Micheál also gives an introduction to the world of honey judging and showing.

Further to all of this there is a comprehensive set of links to beekeeping organisations and resources as well as breeding groups. The Galtee Bee Breeding Group features quite strongly as it was founded due to Micheál's ideas formed while he researched for his NatDipSc(Apic) Micheál himself has been chairman of the group since it's inception.

Each year there are a number of visits to Galtee Honey Farm from international beekeeping tours, these come from Great Britain and the continent of Europe and need to be booked well in advance of the intended visit. The tours include the developing bee garden.

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