Our Mission
Long Garden Bees strive to share the incredible story of the Native Irish Honeybee and the lessons we can learn from them.
As a Social Enterprise, we strongly advocate for biodiversity in our environment and endeavor to improve sustainability within our community. As we share our insights into the world of the honeybee, it is our hope that we can cultivate a passion and awareness of the honeybee and our Irish pollinators through our corporate beekeeping packages, beginner courses and, of course, honey!
For such a small creature, the honeybee has an incredible impact on its environment. We hope to share this impact with you, so that we too may learn from the honeybee, improving everything that we interact with, and in turn, making our world a more beautiful place to live.
What do we do?
Corporate Hive Packages
We install and maintain beehives for Ireland's leading organisations in Corporate Social Responsibility, whilst supporting the Native Irish Honeybee population and providing unique engagement and education opportunities for members.
Beekeeping Courses
Long Garden Bees provide courses for individuals, families and groups who wish to learn more about promoting, supporting and keeping the Native Irish Honeybee.
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What people have to say!
Tom T
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I participated in the bee keeping class that Long Garden Bees offered... Daphne was the BEST teacher! Well-organized, able to communicate the important information about raising bees, and personable. I highly recommend Long Garden Bees... whether you are an aspiring apiarist or interested in honey! Longford is lucky to have such experts!
Book nowDarragh Q.
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My Daughter and I did the bee keeping course with Long Garden and couldn't recommend enough .. insightful and interesting as well as fun .. my 7 year old future bee keeper is even more enthusiastic since.
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I have just completed an amazing 6 week online beekeeping course with Daphne. I've had bees with a year and wondered how much could I learn from this course and wow, I wasn't disappointed. It was packed full of things I needed to know and delivered by Daphne who was so enthusiastic and passionate about the information she was sharing. If a follow up course was launched I would do it in a heartbeat. Very reasonable price for the course I did too. 🙌
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Thanks so much to Daphne and her family for this course. It was brilliant. I really enjoyed it. We're hoping to get bees on foot of it. I'd absolutely love to do a practical one with ye some day. Thanks very much 🐝
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Excellent bee keeping courses. A wealth of knowledge & experience. Excellent delivery of lessons/module - I would highly recommend this well presented material - thank you.
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Hoping to get my first hive and colony of bees in Spring 2021. For me this was an excellent course and I feel my expectations as a beginner bee keeper have been really well managed . The course was extremely informative and interactive and the pace was really well managed. Lots of questions are encouraged which really adds to the learning experience. Overall a really enjoyable and highly recommended course for anyone interested in pollinators, beekeeping and biodiversity.
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I participated in a course via zoom hosted by Long Garden Bees. It was excellent. The host is a national school teacher by profession and has a gift with the way she presented the course. Everything was explained in a simplistic manner suitable for children but at the same time it was enthralling for us adults. Any questions presented were answered with ease. The enthusiasm with which the entire course was presented was so obvious together with a pure love of bees passed from previous generations. If you wish to learn about bees I would not hesitate in recommending this course.
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The course provided by Long Garden Bees was absolutely fantastic. Daphne was a brilliant and informative teacher. She explained everything in a clear manner and her passion for beekeeping is infectious. Having taken the course, I now feel confident enough to take on a hive of bees. The course is great value for money and I would highly recommend it for anyone considering taking up beekeeping as a hobby
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Really enjoyed the course. Very informative. Provided a great insight to beekeeping. The course was packed full of excellent information delivered in a friendly and relax way. I would definitely recommend the course as Daphne is hugely knowledgeable and experienced.
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