Local Honey Fermanagh

Fermanagh Beekeepers Association is a beekeeping organisation based in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, that keeps bees and produces local honey. The association maintains its own apiary, managed by apiary manager Niall Lundy, who is credited with successfully overwintering the association's honeybee colonies and achieving an early season honey harvest in 2025. The association's bees forage on a rich variety of local flora including sycamore, blackthorn, hawthorn, chestnut, fruit trees and spring bulbs, giving Fermanagh honey its distinctive local character. The association holds regular meetings featuring educational talks — for example, a presentation on swarming by Mark Wallace — and organises practical apiary work days including seasonal clean-ups and equipment inventories. Members actively manage colonies for low swarming tendency using queens bred from proven strains. Fermanagh honey is noted as being always in demand when the association attends fairs and events across the county. The association also monitors and reports on local beekeeping conditions, including weather impacts on forage and colony development.