Before you dismiss as rubbish and misinformation I suggest you ring your home insurance companies and ask them. Get some informed opinion rather than list misinformation. No-one will, but if anyone does it would be good if they could let us know what they say.
Currently you seem to be armchair refereeing over matters you have no knowledge about.
We had to change out insurance to business class because we run a business. If you are only selling honey from home then it appears that you are classed (by insurance companies) as running a business.
As it turned out the original posters problem was solved by them agreeing (Saga Insurance)to add that he was a beekeeper selling small amounts of Honey and no increase in premium.
This was not a wind up.
The telegraph came to his house to take photographs and was supposed to run an article about it last Saturday. I couldn't find anything on the online edition. Perhaps someone saw it?
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