New Quay Honey Farm

Gerald & Mariana Cooper established their hives at New Quay, West Wales in 1985, and soon discovered that their hobby was producing the best honey they had ever tasted.

New Quay Honey Farm was started to bring this marvellous honey to a wider public and to share with visitors the extraordinary story of the life of the honeybee.

The farm is open to visitors and has a shop, tea room and live bee exhibition, and travellers from all over the worlds have witnessed one of nature's most fascinating processes and sampled at first hand a wonderful range of natural hive products.

Now the largest in Wales, New Quay Honey Farm attracts over 35,000 visitors a year. In 1999 a meadery was added to produce some delicious honey wines (meads). These have become increasingly popular with visitors and are now sold all over the country.

New Quay Honey Farm has two guiding principles;

Quality, not cost, comes first, and secondly, every product should have a great taste.

The Shop

The shop stocks an extensive range of honey from the farm's hives. The honey produced in this area is of a very high quality due to the abundance of wild flowers and trees that flourish in this unspoilt part of Wales. The shop also stocks an extensive range of honey and beeswax products, including cosmetics, candles, mead, honey beer and polish, as well as books, cards, gifts and beekeeping equipment.

Tea Room

Our tea room produces simple, natural meals using fresh local produce and honey from our bees. We make light meals such as welsh rarebit using Teifi cheese, hummus, home made soups and cream teas, ice cream, delicious cakes baked in our kitchen and our award winning honey Bara Brith.

Meadery

The Meadery is a purpose built building erected in early 1999. Mead, (honey wine) was the chief alcoholic drink of the Welsh nation from Roman times until at least 1200 A.D. and is celebrated in some of the most famous early Welsh poetry. At New Quay Honey Farm a variety of meads are made which are worthy of the praise of the Welsh poets. A small exhibition in the Meadery shows the importance of Mead in Welsh history and lets you see how Mead is made today.

The tea room is open from 10 - 5:30 and there is also an area by a small stream for those who want to picnic.

www.thehoneyfarm.co.uk