Tesco is one supermarket that sells a jar labeled "Honey" and retails around 79 pence, At a guess I'd say a bee has never been near it. Lots of cheap honey is mostly sugar or corn syrup designed to pass the UKs weak quality tests.
I brought two jars of local honey from a beekeeper this morning only use supermarket honey in a glaze on gammon/ham. Isn't there a legal standard for honey?
Drop the price of bulk English honey if you want it on the shelf’s in the supermarket. People who buy honey from you at markets or farm shops at a higher price still will. It’s a completely different market. I would happily sell my honey in barrels
@ if someone offered me £2/lb I would have there arm off. But I think I could still make money at £1.50/lb but would have to increase my numbers as becomes an economy of scale. Let’s be honest we all want as much as possible but the bulk market of any product is a world away from a farmers market price. Plus your business has to be setup to be a bulk producer. We produce spring, summer and borage honey. Keep it simple
@@barbersbees9834 I'll hold you to those prices Joe 😉 Our bread and butter is farmers markets and stockists, I find sticking to this allows us to make a good margin without as you say economy to scale and needing to run "huge" numbers.
@@SimplyBeeutifulHoney when I’m talking bulk price I mean in a barrel 🤣 buckets is a little more per pound. But if you need some honey I can certainly help you out
Why as beekeeper would you want to get it into supermarkets? Better option surely is to go with smaller shops and sell local, less food miles, quality local produce straight to the customer.
We ourselves are not looking to supply supermarkets but I know some bee farmers much bigger than us would happily supply. I was only speaking from the perspective of I'd rather see shelves full of UK honey over Non EU.
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Loving that plasters blade.
OMG that is the best thing ever!
It's a game changer chopping fondant, Remember to tag us 😁
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Due to this autumn weather along with the later flows has led to longer brooding, thinking many many need fondant for most of winter
Agreed, Yet another strange year but another opportunity to learn 😃
Mine have lost weight in last week, too many bees feeding. Got to start fondant earlier than i want to. All the best
Luckily the cold has come this week but the hives are now much lighter than I'd like.
I suppose as a commercial beekeeper you’d loose track of what each hive feels like if you were hefting as you went around your colonies.
Its impossible to remember and I only generally heft a few per site to get an average idea of weight across an apiary.
Didn’t know he was ex forces you must get a military pension that must come in pretty handy.❤
Yes I'm full of little surprises ha 😄
Had idea there was such a thing as fake honey! Surely the supermarkets shouldn't be allowed to do this?
Tesco is one supermarket that sells a jar labeled "Honey" and retails around 79 pence, At a guess I'd say a bee has never been near it.
Lots of cheap honey is mostly sugar or corn syrup designed to pass the UKs weak quality tests.
@SimplyBeeutifulHoney thats disgraceful. But not surprised with Tesco.
I brought two jars of local honey from a beekeeper this morning only use supermarket honey in a glaze on gammon/ham. Isn't there a legal standard for honey?
Yes but these None EU blended honeys are mostly sugar or corn syrups which are designed to pass the UKs weak quality tests.
Drop the price of bulk English honey if you want it on the shelf’s in the supermarket.
People who buy honey from you at markets or farm shops at a higher price still will. It’s a completely different market.
I would happily sell my honey in barrels
What would you consider a fair bulk price?
@ if someone offered me £2/lb I would have there arm off. But I think I could still make money at £1.50/lb but would have to increase my numbers as becomes an economy of scale.
Let’s be honest we all want as much as possible but the bulk market of any product is a world away from a farmers market price. Plus your business has to be setup to be a bulk producer. We produce spring, summer and borage honey. Keep it simple
@@barbersbees9834 I'll hold you to those prices Joe 😉
Our bread and butter is farmers markets and stockists, I find sticking to this allows us to make a good margin without as you say economy to scale and needing to run "huge" numbers.
@@SimplyBeeutifulHoney when I’m talking bulk price I mean in a barrel 🤣 buckets is a little more per pound.
But if you need some honey I can certainly help you out
@@SimplyBeeutifulHoney I’ve a decent surplus of borage available @ £100 for 30lb bucket.
Why as beekeeper would you want to get it into supermarkets? Better option surely is to go with smaller shops and sell local, less food miles, quality local produce straight to the customer.
I agree ☝️
We ourselves are not looking to supply supermarkets but I know some bee farmers much bigger than us would happily supply.
I was only speaking from the perspective of I'd rather see shelves full of UK honey over Non EU.
Can you give bees to much fondant as a nuc has 1kg tud in two weeks
Thanks
No they will only consume what then need, If they keep taking it I would just keep putting more on at this time of year.