How much are ya'll selling honey for now?

[keljonma]

Another reason why one honey might crystalize before another is that the nectar source was a different flower. We found aster honey crystalizes very easily.


You could seal the jars with that shrink wrap that seals with a hand-held hair dryer. I have seen that on raw, unfiltered honey in our area of the country.


Congratulations on the honey sales, rhoda_bruce!

 

[Icu4dzs]

You are not going to be happy with me but I buy local wildflower honey, raw, for $1.50 per pound.....in a 60 lb, five gallon pail.

I used to pay $6-10 per lb, though, a pound jar at a time.

ya that's how I buy, but I think I pay almost $2/lbs depending on type, buying in bulk is way cheaper, I don't think this person is talking about selling 60 lbs per go though.

I tried to get honey shipped from Waltonfeed.com here but they said the shippers wouldn't handle 5 gallong buckets because they had a tendency to break and spill honey all over their trucks so they will only take 1 gallon containers now. (kills the price advantage to have anything shipped here because they are so expensive with the "fuel surcharge".

Honey up this way costs quite a bit. I've been paying $12.99 for a 3 lb bottle in the stores. It won't cost quite that much from an independent beek but they were hard to find. Now that I have my own hives I'll start getting my own raw honey next year. I'll have to let the ladies make enough food for themselves to survive our 8 month winters up here...well 6 at any rate...

I didn't know you were supposed to "pasteurize honey" so I don't but apparently some folks do. Hmmm, better go ask Keljonma what she thinks...
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[keljonma]

ICU, I am in favor of raw, locally produced. IMO, there is nothing better in the entire world!



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