Doorstep honey sales

[MuswellMetro]

I sell "at the garden Gate of my house and at a local fete, and get £5 for 340g jars but if i sell to a shop then i get a lot less so try to maximise garden gate sales

parents of local school kids walking by my house to the school are my main buyers

 

[the beehive lodge]

Wife doesnt sell

my wife gets me to take the sign down outside our house in the week as she not keen on people knocking on.
Word of mouth is the the best advert

 

[Little John]

And if you're going from door to door, you're not a street trader, so you don't need a licence from the local authority.

Unless of course you're working from a 3-wheeled van with a slightly dippy younger brother who has an O level in woodwork ...

 

[MuswellMetro]

Are the doorstep sales allowed by law in your country?
Are the small beekeepers satisfied with the production and sales that way?
Possible to live with honey production?

Are there many honey buyers/distributors and what are the prices they offer?

re reading you post, are you saying that you are wanting to bring honey from croatia and sell it door to door

if so, then...post on here suggest it is legal to sell honey by going door to door

price

well most jars sold in shops are 340grams ( 12ouncs) or 227grams (half a pound weight)

beekepers also sell honey in one pound weight jars ( 454grams) which is about 1/2 kilo

you would need to comply with UK jar labelling law and EU regulations....

what would you get for your honey

english honey in london is at least £15 per kilo but in small 340gram or 227/250g jars but some honey sells for much more

outside london then £9 per kilo is more the price

croatian honey, well greek honey sells for £4 per 340g so i would say minimum of £3 per 340g for croatian honey or £10 per kilo but in smaller jars than a kilo

would you make a living selling honey dor to door, well maybe but it would need to be lalbled pure or farm honey or croation Mountain honey...something to make it diffent as import non EU honey can sell for £3 per kilo

 

[Amari]

I think I'd get fed up of answering the door

I have a Tupperware plastic box screwed on to a pole stuck in the grass verge outside our house. On the box is written 'Please put the money down the pipe' - a length of drain pipe goes through the hedge and the coins fall with a satisfying tinkle into a chamber pot. I restock with about four jars. When we changed to this method from selling at the door our sales quadrupled, no kidding, so we sell out in a couple of months. We very rarely get thefts or small-domination foreign coins.
An article in Beecaft some time ago stated that jars sold at the door do not need to comply with full labelling rules i.e. no need for batch number etc.

 

[psafloyd]

My youngest customer is 6 years old and has it with his porridge every morning, but he doesn't like it on his toast..........yet

Mine is les than three. He loves a little comb honey on his yoghurt.

 

[Moggs]

An article in Beecaft some time ago stated that jars sold at the door do not need to comply with full labelling rules i.e. no need for batch number etc.

Point of order! Such sales most certainly do need to comply with Regulations but the Regs allow certain exemptions. I know that this may appear to be a play on words. My point is that the Regs are no less stringent when it comes to matters protecting the public.

 

[alanf]

An article in Beecaft some time ago stated that jars sold at the door do not need to comply with full labelling rules i.e. no need for batch number etc.

Point of order! Such sales most certainly do need to comply with Regulations but the Regs allow certain exemptions. I know that this may appear to be a play on words. My point is that the Regs are no less stringent when it comes to matters protecting the public.

I find it mystifying how various guides to labelling get to publication in Beecraft and BBKA leaflets. They pass on assertions from previous generations of similar leaflets without quoting the actual legislation or government publications where it comes from. Net result is that these 'guides' have nothing to distinguish actual regulations from the obsolete, misquoted and opinion.

Lot numbers are covered by the "The Food (Lot Marking) Regulations 1996" http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1502/made

There is no lot marking exemption based on where they are sold. Any packaged goods sold to the public must carry a lot number, for example jars of honey sold at the gate or anywhere else.

There is an exception in para 4(g) that a "durability" date is acceptable as a substitute for a lot mark. Other official advice such as the "Lot Marking Regulations Guidance Notes" point out that relying on the date as a lot mark can mean large batches are withdrawn if a recall is necessary.