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alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 12918
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 08 7:40 pm Post subject:
North Devon apairy have just advised its members the price should be ï¿½5 a lb

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 3:54 am Post subject:
My bees are away in the rape - so Ill have to harvest early, and Im going for ï¿½5 a jar. If they dont like it, they dont need to buy it.

Tradbritfowlco

Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Posts: 526

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 5:32 am Post subject:
according to the bbc today, bees will be exctinct in 10 years! i love honey, ï¿½5 a jar is worth it for me, especially borage honey

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 6:19 am Post subject:

Lorrainelovesplants wrote:

My bees are away in the rape - so Ill have to harvest early, and Im going for ï¿½5 a jar. If they dont like it, they dont need to buy it.

No offence but I wouldn't give a pound a jar for rape honey.
I thought most producers sold it on for processing.
I've been selling my mixed flower honey for ï¿½3.50 a jar & will probably keep the price the same this year.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 9:07 am Post subject:
We sold ours for ï¿½3.50 for a 12oz jar last year.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 10:03 am Post subject:
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
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 10:06 am Post subject:
I suspect the people asking for specific honeys want something to combat hayfever.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 10:13 am Post subject:

Chez wrote:

We sold ours for ï¿½3.50 for a 12oz jar last year.

I thought the going rate was 1 pullet per jar

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 10:13 am Post subject:
That's a special rate for pullet-pushers

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7761
Location: 91ï¿½ N

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 10:22 am Post subject:

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.

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Pel

Joined: 29 Mar 2008
Posts: 2366
Location: Sennybridge

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 1:01 pm Post subject:
ï¿½2.50 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
Posts: 3920
Location: Brum

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 1:05 pm Post subject:

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 ï¿½7 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
Posts: 463
Location: Wiltshire

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 1:45 pm Post subject:
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
Posts: 3241
Location: Somerset

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 2:07 pm Post subject:

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 ï¿½5 a jar for the honey.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 2:12 pm Post subject:

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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