STARTING out as a beekeeper in 2012 with one hive on a plot of land in Glenasmole, business has been buzzing for Olly’s Farm.
The raw honey producer has won a number of food industry awards, including two gold stars this week from UK’s Great Taste for their summer blossom and heather honey products.
Read More“If you ask ten different beekeepers a question about bees you’ll get ten different answers – and they’ll all be right!” This was just one aspect of the complex and fascinating world of beekeeping explored with Olly from Olly’s Farm in Wicklow during a recent event hosted by Symantec.
Read MoreHave you ever visited someones home and thought “Omg I wish I Lived here”?
Well, that is exactly what happened to me when I arrived at Olly’s Farm.
Tucked away on a quiet country road just twenty minutes outside of the city, you’ll find Olly and his partner Christian’s home nestled in the Dublin mountains.
Read MoreMy name is Olly, I’m a smallholder living up in the Dublin Mountains. In September 2012, after a lot of searching around Dublin, myself and my partner Chris bought a house with some land up in the Dublin mountains in the beautiful valley of Glenasmole and set about making it into a smallholding.
Our goal is to be as self-sufficient as we can, both from a food point of view and energy, and combining it with modern living. It’s a constant work in progress, with trials and errors
Read MoreIn May of this year, Olly’s Farm began the process of making honey on the roof of the Teeling Distillery. The Teeling Bees have been hard at work for the past few months and have successfully produced some delicious honey. We’re delighted to announce that Teeling Honey is now available to buy in the Teeling Distillery Gift Shop! In August of this year, the Distillery Digest was taken over by the man behind the bees, Olly Nolan. Read below as he explains his beekeeping story and how his collaboration with Teeling came about.
Read MoreDublin Food Chain is a collaborative initiative of Local Enterprise Offices in the Dublin area. The Dublin Food Chain is part of an ongoing effort to harness the power of the 'collective', in order to ensure that Co. Dublin's unique food heritage benefits from the attention it deserves.
Read MoreSlow Food Dublin is a community of like-minded people who champion the ethos of good, clean and fair food in Dublin by hosting regular events highlighting food businesses and producers who honour these values, supporting food and community initiatives and celebrating great Irish food with our members and the public.
Read MoreIn this week's Meet the Makers, we are putting the spotlight on great Irish honey producers.
Honey has such versatility as an ingredient, it can be used to glaze a ham, add sweetness to a cake, topping for porridge, even used to make a skin scrub, but can also sooth a tickle in the throat. This ancient form of food production has been used for medicinal purposes to this very day.
Read MoreSo after a break up my heart was hurting and had a lot of questions about my future and life and my solution to that was to run off the the greenest place on earth and get away from everything. Kara Vincent my beautiful funny friend from America's next top model cycle 13 had told me about wwofing and every since I knew I would do it one day. I just didn't know when I was scared to go alone but after the break up I was in need of an adventure and on fire so I put my fears aside and booked a ticket to Ireland.
Read MoreSTARTING out as a beekeeper in 2012 with one hive on a plot of land in Glenasmole, business has been buzzing for Olly’s Farm.
The raw honey producer has won a number of food industry awards, including two gold stars this week from UK’s Great Taste for their summer blossom and heather honey products.
Read MoreHOW amazing does this beautiful rainbow chard look?
This vibrant leafy vegetable is jumping out of the ground up on Olly’s Farm in Glenasmole, where Olly Nolan grows and rears his own food naturally and organically.
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