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Beekeepers can now easily deliver donations of frames full of honey to
Cork Penny Dinners on Little Hanover St.
Lord Mayor of Cork hails initiative to aid honey donations to charity
Members of Glanmire Men's Shed and the North Cork Beekeepers
Association met with the Lord Mayor of Cork, Councillor Kieran
McCarthy, at City Hall recently.
Amy Campbell
AN INITIATIVE by Cork beekeepers and a local Men’s Shed will now allow
apiarists from across the county to bring honey donations to one of the
city’s oldest charities.
Members of the North Cork Beekeepers Association have teamed up with
Glanmire Men’s Shed, coming up with a practical way to help beekeepers
bring deliveries of natural honey to Cork Penny Dinners.
The members of Glanmire Men’s Shed have designed and built portable
frame-holders which will make it easy for beekeepers to transport
frames full of honey.
Beekeepers can now easily deliver donations of frames full of honey to
Cork Penny Dinners on Little Hanover St, where volunteers will be able
to extract the honey from the frames and make sure it goes to good
homes.
Innovation
Independent councillor Kieran McCarthy, Lord Mayor of Cork, recently
hosted members of Glanmire Men’s Shed and the North Cork Beekeepers
Association at Cork City Hall, and he hailed the innovation.
“The Men’s Sheds in the city are going from strength to strength, and
the Glanmire Men’s Shed has taken a very worthy project on board —
making frame-holders to help deliver honey to Penny Dinners, which is a
very worthy cause,” Mr McCarthy said.
“Through their work, the Men’s Sheds are also delving into work that
can help positively influence climate action, while also helping people
in need.
“I was delighted to host Glanmire Men’s Shed and representative of Cork
beekeepers on the steps of City Hall recently, and it was a very
pleasant and informative gathering, while the presence of members of
Cork Penny Dinners helped to highlight the seriousness of the project.”
Bertie Cuffe, who is a beekeeper from Rathcormac with over 20 years of
experience, said the idea had come last year.
User friendly
“The basic idea was that Glanmire Men’s Shed made frame-holders that
facilitated the giving of a frame of honey to Cork Penny Dinners and,
because the North Cork Beekeepers Association sponsored the idea,
Glanmire Men’s Shed gave frame-holders to all of the North Cork
beekeepers.
“Now, if a beekeeper wants to give a frame of honey to Cork Penny
Dinners, having a frame-holder makes it very user friendly.
“If they give a frame of honey, they don’t have to extract it and put
it in jars,” Mr Cuffe said.
“Penny Dinners are familiar with honey and they can cope with
extracting it.”
He added that natural honey is “second to none” and filled with
nutritious goodness.
“And what we’re asking is that local beekeepers think about donating
their ‘sweet 16th frame, meaning that if they have 16 frames of honey,
they consider donating their 16th frame to a very good cause,” said Mr
Cuffe.
Beekeepers who would like to donate a frame of honey to Cork Penny
Dinners may contact North Cork Beekeepers at corkhoneyfarms@gmail.com
or Penny Dinners at mail@corkpennydinners.ie.
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