Another cock up on the marketing front?

[Newbeeneil]

Whenever I go to RHS Wisley I get dragged through the shop so spend my time looking at the honey products. This time there were plenty of Raw honeys for sale but this label caught my eye.

 

[pargyle]

Whenever I go to RHS Wisley I get dragged through the shop so spend my time looking at the honey products. This time there are plenty of Raw honeys for sale but this label caught my eye.
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I was there a couple of weeks ago ... some extraordinary labels on some of the honey on sale ! I didn't notice that one - must be a new supplier.

Their shop and garden centre is massive since they did all the rebuilding and relocation work. I love the place and it's worth the RHS membership just for the three or four trips we do there each year. I was a bit disapppointed that the old allotment area has gone temporarily and some of the other regular gardens seem to have disappeared pending being established elsewhere in the garden. It should be nice when they have finished ...

 

[Boston Bees]

I think that's quite clever actually ..... implies some personal care and attention, without making silly claims as to the composition of the contents.

 

[Newbeeneil]

I agree Phillip. Each time we go we tend to go to different areas. We went to the arboretum today and had a look at the apiary. I couldn't see that anyone has looked at these for a while as the grass didn't look disturbed at all.

 

[jeff33]

Hand harvested, that's a new one! Have they been using cheap labour to remove honey by hand from individual cells?

 

[Newbeeneil]

I think that's quite clever actually ..... implies some personal care and attention, without making silly claims as to the composition of the contents.

It's the white tailed bumble that caught my eye.

 

[Boston Bees]

It's the white tailed bumble that caught my eye.

Haha, good point!

 

[pargyle]

Haha, good point!

Probably hand harvested in a blend of EU and Non EU countries then ?

 

[Erichalfbee]

It's the white tailed bumble that caught my eye.

It’s quite clever really.
Bumbles are more cuddly than honey bees so perhaps that draws the eye

 

[enrico]

I might use that one along with raw

 

[pargyle]

I might use that one along with raw

Damn ... I've just had a re-print of my Fine Raw Honey labels ... I could have included Hand Harvested as well ...

 

[DaveG23]

I wonder what the trick is to get the bumbles to produce hand harvested honey? A few kind words? Maybe a song.

 

[viridens]

Hand harvested, Perhaps they are milking the little buzzers,
Their site says:

"Hand harvested natural honey from The Secret Herb Garden, Scotland. At The Secret Herb Garden, we are passionate about all things bees, from our bee observatory and school to our 40 hives. We use no chemicals whatsoever on the grounds so this makes the honey made by our bees 100% natural and delicious".
-But it seems that honey is a sideline, and their main product is hand-harvested gin (what?) see here.

 

[GuyNir]

Hand harvested, Perhaps they are milking the little buzzers,
Their site says:

"Hand harvested natural honey from The Secret Herb Garden, Scotland. At The Secret Herb Garden, we are passionate about all things bees, from our bee observatory and school to our 40 hives. We use no chemicals whatsoever on the grounds so this makes the honey made by our bees 100% natural and delicious".
-But it seems that honey is a sideline, and their main product is hand-harvested gin (what?) see here.

Everything is hand harvested. Busy bunch…

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

IMHO The only businesses I can think of that can legitimately claim to use the term 'hand harvested'

Are sperm banks

 

[Frizzaldo]

"We use no chemicals whatsoever in the grounds"....not even soap before the hand harvesting?

 

[madasafish]

"We use no chemicals whatsoever in the grounds"....not even soap before the hand harvesting?

And we run guided tours of the premises - but no hand sanitiser?

 

[blackcloud]

With some of the soap-dodger clientele I saw at the Builth convention Id much prefer honey from a fully automated line.

 

[user 819]

Mines hand harvested ,I'm the one who has to operate the cappings knife and also the switch for the DC E- extractor.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

IMHO The only businesses I can think of that can legitimately claim to use the term 'hand harvested'

Are sperm banks

During a period when I worked for a company called Pozzolanic based in Chester they had offices above a cattle AI company. Apparently they had fibreglass cows back ends with integral Collection vessels and long sleeved rubber gloves. Not sure if that counts as hand harvesting.