It's going to be a late one

[Curly green finger's]

Labeling these jars for orders tomorrow and next week.
I feel a bit frazzled already.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Are you diversifying?

 

[Curly green finger's]

Are you diversifying?
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Nope that's works stock, they have the best stabilisers in the country as well as some rare bread sheep.
Trust you dani

 

[bobba]

They look amazing, great work m8.

 

[Curly green finger's]

They look amazing, great work m8.

Thank the bees as always, they are the ones that have done all the hard work.
The rest is nothing in comparison

 

[The Poot]

Thank the bees as always, they are the ones that have done all the hard work.
The rest is nothing in comparison

Nice variety of honey types. Really looking good Curly

 

[Curly green finger's]

Nice variety of honey types. Really looking good Curly

7 types in total Mr Poot, wouldn't of had the variety if I hadn't extracted each super to a bucket, some might say a pita,we have 7 different labels.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Lime, blend, dandelion, spring, summer mix, Heather, softset.

 

[Curly green finger's]

My favourite would probably be the Heather then lime

 

[Nannysbees]

Labeling these jars for orders tomorrow and next week. View attachment 29427View attachment 29428
I feel a bit frazzled already.

Wow what a fantastic photograph, you must be delighted. How fascinating are bees

 

[Curly green finger's]

Wow what a fantastic photograph, you must be delighted. How fascinating are bees

Very proud of my girls, I would hate to think of the air miles they have done just to collect those jars.

 

[rolande]

7 labels? Amazing. Although (here it comes!....) I reckon you're making work for yourself while potentially creating customer preferences that, in all honesty, they don't need to have. Not nitpicking for the sake of it, this is meant to be constructive!

 

[Arfermo]

7 labels? Amazing. Although (here it comes!....) I reckon you're making work for yourself while potentially creating customer preferences that, in all honesty, they don't need to have. Not nitpicking for the sake of it, this is meant to be constructive!

As someone (undoubtedly a Welsh Marshes oik) once said, no harm in scratching your bum but no point in breaking the skin!!

 

[Erichalfbee]

My only concern would be labelling the honeys as mono floral. But then If nobody bothers the supermarkets for their labelling I wound hazard that a small producer is safe.
They do look pretty
It would take me a week to label those

 

[Curly green finger's]

7 labels? Amazing. Although (here it comes!....) I reckon you're making work for yourself while potentially creating customer preferences that, in all honesty, they don't need to have. Not nitpicking for the sake of it, this is meant to be constructive!

Fair point and your not the only one to say that mate, most people haven't really a clue what type of honey they are unless there a beekeeper and in the no.

Tbf all of the above are selling for the same price except the Heather,
And subsequent years will probably just have three or four labels.
I've only ordered enough labels to cover the amount we have in stock.
Interesting next season will be different know dowt so keeping labels to just a few will be better.

 

[Curly green finger's]

You will all point me in the right direction in the end

 

[rolande]

You will all point me in the right direction in the end

Others can only give us pointers, it's up to us to find the improvements that'll push us a little further.

One little example of what I wrote earlier; a relatively small percentage of our bees are on portland - mainly the place is used for Queen rearing. A long time ago I made the mistake of offering a Dorset label and a portland label. Of course, the natives wanted the portland label but before I knew what was going on the word had somehow spread and I was finding that shops with absolutely no connection to the island were insisting on portland Honey rather than the Dorset Honey because they saw it as being different to everyone else's. Magnify that situation to a shop that starts to insist on lime honey or dandelion honey.... You'll soon find yourself back at square one trying to persuade them to take a different label even though they 'know' that one will sell better than the other.

Edit : you're also getting a slower return on the money spent on labels unless you have enough of each type to fill regular orders until that batch of labels is fully used.

 

[Murox]

what a lovely sight Curly, fantastic effort

 

[Arfermo]

what a lovely sight Curly, fantastic effort

Scratching bum and maybe drawing some blood methinks!!

 

[Swarm]

Others can only give us pointers, it's up to us to find the improvements that'll push us a little further.

One little example of what I wrote earlier; a relatively small percentage of our bees are on portland - mainly the place is used for Queen rearing. A long time ago I made the mistake of offering a Dorset label and a portland label. Of course, the natives wanted the portland label but before I knew what was going on the word had somehow spread and I was finding that shops with absolutely no connection to the island were insisting on portland Honey rather than the Dorset Honey because they saw it as being different to everyone else's. Magnify that situation to a shop that starts to insist on lime honey or dandelion honey.... You'll soon find yourself back at square one trying to persuade them to take a different label even though they 'know' that one will sell better than the other.

Edit : you're also getting a slower return on the money spent on labels unless you have enough of each type to fill regular orders until that batch of labels is fully used.

This would be my concern. It's far easier to explain that one batch can be different from another and it's part of the wonderful mystery of keeping bees.
Much easier to call it 'Raw' ....