Honey label supplier's

[pargyle]

What are the laws on me buying honey from other beekeepers in the area and selling it as titterstone Clee honey, because I've had so many inquiries for me to supply honey to different outlets
I've got £6 for mine

If you state or imply on the jar it's from a specific location and you have bought in honey from other sources then you may be infringing the Trade Description Act if it's not proven to be from the same place.

I've never done it and I would worry about what other beekeepers have done prior to putting it in the buckets .. Your name on the jar .. your responsibility and your reputation. Plus - you are required to have to be able to identify the batch and it's provenance with a lot number or similar identifier - how are you going to be able to prove where it came from if you ever have to ? Once you stray from Farm gate sales the authorities are likely to take more interest in your product.

I'm not suggesting that there IS going to be a problem but just look at the number of beekeepers who feed syrup to their bees virtually none stop through the season and then call the resultant stuff 'Honey'.

If you are going to re-sell I would be inclined to have a different label and identify it as something less specific - perhaps even identify it as 'A blend of honeys from South Shropshire Apiaries'. Even then .. I would be worrying that someone had dumped thymol on the colony with supers in place .. you can taste that from outside the jar almost !

 

[Curly green finger's]

I don't think you should even contemplate that. Keep it local, keep it special - a local price for locals. - do you really want to be supplying "everyone else"?

Well well cgf the wife agreed with what you have said Murox my honey from the Clee Hill apiarys is very special.
The only thing I can do is to expand thoughs apairys, she has said keep it local for the local folk. But if I want to expand meaning have more apairys in different county's then we would have to design a different label.. She is right and I do agree I've not spent the last 4 years building colony numbers, breeding, trying different sites on the Clee to change my goal.
#titterstonecleehoneyonly!
Damn she can be a pain some times.
Cheers.

 

[Swarm]

Sometimes even those 'locals' don't deserve it.
...Wife has a message on one of those FB local community sites asking about our honey.
£6 for a 12oz jar would prove too expensive considering the amount they consume!! Currently buying 3.5 lb tubs from a place a few miles away.
Obviously not figuring in the cost of his journey, then.
As a local in our village, we would have delivered, my wife took four jars to a customer last night.
Maybe could have asked if we sold larger size but he sounds a bit like the type who would expect mates rates.
No loss.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Sometimes even those 'locals' don't deserve it.
...Wife has a message on one of those FB local community sites asking about our honey.
£6 for a 12oz jar would prove too expensive considering the amount they consume!!

Yes, the price I charge is not negotiable, nobody has complained or challenged it, I found out last week that one of my retailers actually posts my honey to a person in Bridgend who received a jar of honey bought at their stock feed shop and has asked whether they minded postingit to them (they pay carriage costs obvilously - now, every couple of months, ten jars wing their way via parcelforce.
I did however deliver to a home address this week, person has recently moved in to the valley, took a fancy to our honey and had run out, he'd managed to track me down, but being disabled couldn't get to the house, fair play on him for doing the detective work so as it's on one of my routes I did a contactless delivery - money left on the doorstep, exchanged for honey. Doing quite a bit of that now Brynmair is on a popular exercise route so people call in their order, I leave a paper carrier with their order on the doorstep, they pick up and leave the money.

 

[For want of a better word]

If you state or imply on the jar it's from a specific location and you have bought in honey from other sources then you may be infringing the Trade Description Act if it's not proven to be from the same place.

I've never done it and I would worry about what other beekeepers have done prior to putting it in the buckets .. Your name on the jar .. your responsibility and your reputation. Plus - you are required to have to be able to identify the batch and it's provenance with a lot number or similar identifier - how are you going to be able to prove where it came from if you ever have to ? Once you stray from Farm gate sales the authorities are likely to take more interest in your product.

I'm not suggesting that there IS going to be a problem but just look at the number of beekeepers who feed syrup to their bees virtually none stop through the season and then call the resultant stuff 'Honey'.

If you are going to re-sell I would be inclined to have a different label and identify it as something less specific - perhaps even identify it as 'A blend of honeys from South Shropshire Apiaries'. Even then .. I would be worrying that someone had dumped thymol on the colony with supers in place .. you can taste that from outside the jar almost !

Salutatory tale is of a beekeeper buying in honey from Croatia and selling it as his own... was dibbed in by a jealous neighboring beekeeper to TS who tested the pollen in the honey and found Black Acacia... not at all common in Surrey.

Package your own ... or join the Honey Packers Association and sell it as it is.... EU and non EU blend possibly?????

 

[pargyle]

Package your own ... or join the Honey Packers Association and sell it as it is.... EU and non EU blend possibly?????

Yes .. my sentiments as well. I know what's in my honey, I know where it came from and what I've done with it. I don't think I could look my customers in the eye if I was peddling them honey from someone else's bees. They nearly all ask about my bees and what they are up to when I deliver it.

 

[For want of a better word]

Yes .. my sentiments as well. I know what's in my honey, I know where it came from and what I've done with it. I don't think I could look my customers in the eye if I was peddling them honey from someone else's bees. They nearly all ask about my bees and what they are up to when I deliver it.

Local honey for local people!!

Keep the faith!!

Chons da

 

[Murox]

Well well cgf the wife agreed with what you have said Murox my honey from the Clee Hill apiarys is very special.
The only thing I can do is to expand thoughs apairys, she has said keep it local for the local folk. But if I want to expand meaning have more apairys in different county's then we would have to design a different label.. She is right and I do agree I've not spent the last 4 years building colony numbers, breeding, trying different sites on the Clee to change my goal.
#titterstonecleehoneyonly!
Damn she can be a pain some times.
Cheers.

Yes you need a different label. Have you registered a brand name ? e.g. Clee Hill Honey - that could be a way forwards maybe ?

You only ask £6 for 340g pot ? - and you have nearly exhausted your stocks - when selling to ourselves & locals the association asks £8 - obviously its to help subsidise the assn - nevertheless it always sells out even in a small village/hamlet - less than 10 hives though and there is not always a crop if the weather is wrong.