Meet our Stallholders - Honey Festival 2024

We are delighted to welcome back our Stallholders to the Honey Festival at the Heritage Centre and Parish Grounds on September 21st 2024. Their beautiful artisanal products perfectly complement the ethos of our Honey Festival - we hope you find something lovely to bring home with you along with the honey on the day!

Michelle Sheane is a professional baker / cake artist based in Wicklow town. She specialises in bespoke wedding cakes, occasion cakes and cupcakes which are available in a number of styles, colours and flavours. You can find her on instagram and FB @theflourpot.ie

Hollywood Farmhouse Cheese is an award winning creamery based in Hollywood, Co. Wicklow. They make a variety of raw milk goats cheeses by the milk of their own flock! We are delighted to welcome them to the Honey Festival for the first time this year.

Colleen Doyle is an independent consultant for Neal’s Yard Organic remedies and a great supporter of the Festival since it started. Her range includes skincare and body oils, room sprays and lots more.

See Rob's handmade wooden bat boxes, bird houses, bee hotels, & garden trugs and Lorraine's lovely fabric items for pets https://www.instagram.com/redmeadowwoodworkery/

Val Reid is the owner of Dalkey Handmade Soaps. “I make my soap as simply as possible, using only natural oils, butters, colours and pure essential oils -making them in small batches and curing them for 4 to 6 weeks”. You can choose your favourite at the festival. www.dalkeyhandmadesoaps.ie

Jane Sellers joins us to demonstrate the wonderful art of skep making. She will make skeps to order from wheat or oat grass, or from a native Irish grass known as Purple Moor Grass , Molinia caerulea www.janesbees.ie

án Design is a small workshop sustainably crafting wooden products, using hand tools and traditional techniques. Ciarán & Claire are at the beginning of their journey to BeeCrafty in everything they make https://www.instagram.com/ciarandesign/

Elena Manta brings her collection of deliciously scented soya based candles to the Festival this year for the first time.

Visit the ‘Heritage & Biodiversity’ stand for Wicklow County Council to discover the action and biodiversity plans. Learn about the fantastic Barn Owl Project and how you can help. Read all about it here