About us at Anglesey Bees

Anglesey Bees takes home Great Taste 2024 Award for its Anglesey Summer Wildflower Honey.

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About us at Anglesey Bees

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My name is Dafydd and with my wife, Dawn, we manage Anglesey Bees from our small holding in Llanddaniel, Anglesey.

After reading ecology, soil science and entomology for my honours degree at The University of London, I started my career and gained my Ph.D as an Environmental Research Scientist at the world leading Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth. For the following 20 years I worked as a teacher of biology.

Dawn, on the other hand has an honours degree in biochemistry from Liverpool university. After a period in the pharmaceutical industry, she qualified as a teacher and became an advisory teacher in north-east Wales. She has learnt Welsh as an adult and has experience of teaching all ages from 5 to 18 through the medium of Welsh and English as well as contributing to postgraduate teacher's training courses. 

We are passionate about biodiversity, sustainability, science education and connecting with nature. In 2020 we decided to combine our experience in teaching  with a life-long interest in beekeeping and launched Anglesey Bees to provide beekeeping training and experiences of a consistently high standard. 


By now, with many out-apiaries across the south of Anglesey, we produce a significant quantity of award-winning Anglesey wildflower honey. We pride ourselves on the superior quality of our honey. Even after scaling up production, we retain the greatest respect for the honey, our bees and our environment. All the honey that we sell is our own award-winning raw honey, from the current season. It  is a premium product, handled in small batches, with its taste and aroma rooted in the unique "terroir" of the UNESCO Global Geopark of Anglesey.


Even with a considerable number of hives, we don't regard ourselves as bee farmers. We have barely changed the traditional management practices that we adopted as hobby beekeepers decades ago. We are professional beekeepers!


At our apiaries, our bees have access to some of the most ecologically-rich habitats on Anglesey. At our home apiary, our bees benefit from diverse managed habitats, including a honeybee friendly deciduous woodland, planted in 2019, a spring-fed lake and clover pastures grazed by our closed flock of traditional pedigree Shropshire sheep - all of which contributes to the terroir of our honey.

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