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Lorrainelovesplants



Joined: 13 Oct 2006
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 08 10:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Actually, I get asked a lot for rape honey. last year I seold 4 jars to one lady alone, and would have sold more if i had it.
This time of year they are collecting from sloe and rape.
tastes nice to me anyway..........

mochyn



Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 08 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I suspect the people asking for specific honeys want something to combat hayfever.

judith



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 08 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Chez wrote:
We sold ours for �3.50 for a 12oz jar last year.


I thought the going rate was 1 pullet per jar

chez



Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 08 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That's a special rate for pullet-pushers

Jb



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 08 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Also it's just part of the general high rate of food price inflation. Even without bee specific problems basic food prices are going up at double digit inflation

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3784919.ece

What I want know is when the government or supermarkets claim that inflation is only a couple of percent what are they including in their basket of goods? Certainly not the basic items that aren't optional.

Last edited by Jb on Mon Apr 21, 08 2:12 pm; edited 1 time in total

Pel



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Location: Sennybridge
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 08 1:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

�2.50 is what dad charged last year, dunno if he is going up in price or not, we'll see when it comes to extracting.

Andy B



Joined: 12 Jan 2005
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 08 1:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jamanda wrote:
It's a supply and demand thing. Because last Summer was so dreadful, many honey makers got far less to sell than usual. So the price of British honey has increased a lot. Heather honey is even more expensive, up to �7 a jar.


Will this cold late start cause problems as well? Theres a snippet in Smallholder mag about bee problems due to Veroa mite and the sudden hive collapse disorder, this late flowering could be the final nail!

Yarrow



Joined: 26 Jun 2006
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Location: Wiltshire
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 08 1:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Talking of a lack of bee produce, have you heard about the Americas? Supposedly mobile radiation may cause Colony Collapse Disorder.
Read this.

yummersetter



Joined: 26 Jan 2008
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Location: Somerset
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 08 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Is there really late flowering? My Bramley apple blossom is just coming out, bang on the average date for the past 20 years I've been keeping records for.

Our bees all died this winter though - as they have every year since we put the hives in a bee-house about five years ago. The beehouse meant we could examine the hive at weekends even if the weather was poor, but hasn't really been successful. Every year we've come up with a different reason for the winter mass suicide; I think they just need more care than we can give them so we're probably not going to restock this year, even at �5 a jar for the honey.

chez



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 08 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We moved our two hives over to Mochyn's a fortnight ago and they'd been really busy for about three weeks before that - one had two full supers and one had one.

We lost two out of our original four colonies over the winter - but we knew that was going to happen because they were very weak (from crazy swarming during the summer) when we shut them down for the autumn - one had no queen despite us trying to requeen it a couple of times and one had a really bad wax-moth infestation. Motto: try not to take on four hives of bees when three months pregnant because you can't look after the bees AND the baby.

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