Bumblebee Flower Farm Ireland

Bumblebee Flower Farm Ireland Saving our pollinators by lovingly cultivating beautiful nectar rich blooms for bouquets, weddings/e

02/06/2026

This week's offerings! A little yummy me thinks🥰
Available in and direct from the farm
All bee friendly and everything grown here in West Cork.

Bee kind Mags xx 🐜 🦋 🐦 🐰 🐝 🐌 🕷🐞🐝🐝🐝

Conventional is defined as following what's traditional or to follow what's considered acceptable and normal. If you thi...
30/05/2026

Conventional is defined as following what's traditional or to follow what's considered acceptable and normal. If you think producing poisoned drugged plants only fit to feed insects and disease is conventional, then tomorrow's live probably isn't for you. On the other hand, if you'd like to know more about the direct correlation between soil health and human health, then do join me tomorrow at 11 am.

Bee kind Mags xx 🐜 🦋 🐦 🐰 🐝 🐌🐞🕷🐝🐝🐝

Aileen from collecting edible flowers for a wedding cake today 😋 looking forward to seeing the final creation 😀 Bee ki...
30/05/2026

Aileen from collecting edible flowers for a wedding cake today 😋 looking forward to seeing the final creation 😀

Bee kind Mags xx 🐜 🦋 🐦 🐰 🐝 🕷🐞🐌🐝🐝🐝

I promised this over 2 years ago, but life got in the way🙈 there's a direct link between soil and human health. If the s...
25/05/2026

I promised this over 2 years ago, but life got in the way🙈 there's a direct link between soil and human health. If the soil system is broken, then our health is broken too. This is all too evident with type 2 diabetes(used to be called adult onset but because do many children suffer from it now, they changed the name) autoimmune diseases, allergies, cancer, and the list goes on. We haven't made improvements we've just replaced infectious diseases with the modern set.
If you'd like to take back control of your health then join me on Sunday morning, where I'll shed some light on the underlying problem and hopefully you'll be able to stop chasing symptoms and get a handle on the root cause.
See you Sunday

Bee kind Mags xx 🐝 🐞 🐌 🕷 🐜🦋🐦🐰🐝🐝🐝

23/05/2026

No, I haven't lost the plot. I'm curious to get your thoughts, and yes, when you look at an ecosystem, they are indicators of the quality of plants, soil, and produce. I will develop food as medicine and how similar our gut function is to soil function. It's too big a topic for a post. It will need an Instagram live at the very least. So humor me and share your thoughts 🙏

Bee kind Mags xx 🐝 🐞 🐌 🕷 🐜🦋🐦🐰🐝🐝🐝

16/05/2026

Watch closely with sound on. What a treat to see this. I was working in my food tunnel and knew the Robins had fledged because of the noise but didn't expect to get a birds eye view. This is the Robin that's been my constant companion the last few weeks. He has a white feather on his left side, so it is easy to recognise him. The amount of insects that fed I chip is unbelievable, so multiply by all the fledglings here it really does help keep balance 🙌

Bee kind Mags xx 🐦🐦🐦🦋🐜🕷🐌🐞🐝🐝🐝

13/05/2026

We know more about the moon than we do about the incredible world beneath our feet!
Generally, I don't check a new pile until around day 15, but something told me to take a look today, and I wasn't disappointed. Loads of different arthropods busy munching away generating plant available nutrients, some were springtails who incidentally love to chow down on powdery mildew. If that's not a case for ditching 'icides'
A few busy nematodes, protozoa like arcella flageletes, cercazoa, and some beautiful higher functioning fungi already. All trophic levels are present in abundance. Can't wait to see what's there when it returns to ambient temperatures again. It's on its final heating cycle, and all sections have been through the hot middle.
I will do a live when it's ready to be fully assessed.
Ecosystem functioning.

Bee kind Mags xx
🐝🐝🐝🐞🐌🕷🐜🦋🐦

The first rose bouquet of the season! I think Cathy likes it 🥰 it's been over 7 months since I ve seen a rose, but boy,...
13/05/2026

The first rose bouquet of the season! I think Cathy likes it 🥰 it's been over 7 months since I ve seen a rose, but boy, is it worth the wait! This beauty is Rachel de Theme, an absolute stunner in every aspect. From scent edible quality and, of course, when it fully opens, the pollinators have a feast 😋 almost forgot it's an incredible cut flower 🙈 🐝 Mags xx 🐦🦋🐜🕷🐌🐞🐝🐝

This is so true, especially in my case. Part of my salad contains alfalfa, which I have from mid February to the end of ...
10/05/2026

This is so true, especially in my case. Part of my salad contains alfalfa, which I have from mid February to the end of November. So what you say. Wee roll back to 2022, my health deteriorated, and by October 2023, I could hardly put 1 foot in front of the other. Got bloods done, and among other things, B12 was shot. Did a course of injections. There was some improvement, but I still struggled. I decided to investigate how B12 was produced for injections, and sadly, so much I'd genetically modified. I knew my alfalfa was high in nitrogen because I use it as my high N source for biological compost. Nitrogen fixation needs cobalt to happen, and here's the kicker cobalt is the vital constituent of cobalamin, otherwise known as vitamin B12. So now I make sure I eat it every day, it's made a huge difference 🙌
As a side note, vitamin B12 deficiencies are seriously on the rise here in Ireland, from a Trinity college study, it affects 1 in 8 people.

Is it B12, or is it cobalt?

It's estimated that our bodies are now made up around 50% haber bosch artificial nitrogen, which our bodies are not designed to utilise. Nitrogen fixation will not occur when artificial nitrogen is applied. You end up with j***y plants that won't or can't make B12. If you're growing legumes then check for nodulation, split open one & if it's blood red then nitrogen fixation is working or like me test it as your hi n in compost, probably a better choice because free living bacteria also do the job. Mother Nature always has a backup plan.

On compost update, I turned yesterday because I couldn't get it to cool down. After the turn, it was 32 degrees. At 6 am this morning, it was up to 67 again. Thankfully, it has stayed around this, my next turn will be on Tuesday morning 🌄

In a nutshell, we are a holobiont just like plants, we can not thrive without our microbial partners. Yes, we can be kept alive with drugs & the proverbial IV, but that's not living it's just taking longer to die. Plants are no different artificial fertilisers are the IV drip, & the consequences are incomplete proteins, poor nutrition, & the massive increase in autoimmune diseases.

The food I grow is my medicine

01/05/2026

It's hard to see what is going on, but this is nectar robbing. White tailed bumblebees are famous for it! Other bumblebees will follow their lead and do the same. Easy nectar for them but not so good for pollination. It won't affect the broad bean because its self fertile, but other plants aren't so lucky. Gotta admire their ingenuity all the same.

Bee kind Mags xx 🐝🐝🐝🐞🐌🕷🐜🦋🐦

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