How Much Should You Charge For Your Honey? | Business of Beekeeping & Selling Honey
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- How much should you charge for your honey? Pricing your honey can be tricky. You don't want to be the cheapest honey on the block, but if its too high, you might not sell any! Here's some tips for figuring out what to price your honey at and how I got started.
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Very useful video. Thank you. Here in the boroughs of NYC, there are many “backyard” beekeepers and local honey is at a premium - for whatever reason. I have 12 oz jars that I try to sell for $15 wholesale, $20 retail. To private customers, it’s always $15. Your ideas have given me food for thought. It’s all about the location of your market. I can travel a mile or two in any direction and I know I’ll need to adjust my pricing. In Queens that same bottle would have to be priced at $12 retail - selling it on the street. In Brooklyn, it can sell for $20 retail. Location, location, location.
Thanks for the very useful video! I'm a Dutch beekeeper, living in France (Normandy). I'm just starting with beekeeping, and there's already quite a lot of interest. There are a couple of small, local shops which are happy to sell honey. And there is the possibility to sell honey at the shop of the castle nearby. And, last but not least, we have a small campsite and 2 holiday homes. Guests are also very interested. So I'm hopeful! And this video is really inspiring for me.
Thank you. Your voice is organic honey👍😊
Where are you?
I'm on the Big Island :)
Your videos are so helpful- thank you!
Glad you like them!
I sell by word of mouth. Friends of friends. Pints and quarts. $10 and $20. Or barter for services with it. Great for cat sitting payments.
You have good topics for your videos, hitting the business end.
Thanks.
thanks! Working in marketing and advertising for 15 years before starting the bee farm gives me a different perspective than most, I think :)
I've been doing 12.50/lb for raw wildflower honey in a semi touristy area in southern Washington. I'm playing around with comb honey this year and plan on making some cream honey to sell as a value added product. The thing that's driving me nuts is shipping prices on distinctive jars that set my brand apart.
Shipping also drove me nuts. Almost every package I shipped was going overseas. Luckily, I use a hex jar which very rarely breaks in shipping.
we sell our honey for $6 per pound and $20 for comb honey ( Hogg half comb ) Boise Idaho. USA
we have not set it up yet to sell from internet orders. but we are working that way.
Wow! That's quite a price difference. Thanks for the comment. It's such a shame that honey is priced so low. It makes it so difficult to have a successful business as a beekeeper unless you have thousands of hives.
@@BeekeepingMadeSimple we have about 50 hives.
Most of our money will come from pollination in California. We have more mint around here.
@@deepeterson7973 Interesting! Do the bees get much nectar from the mint? Personally, I didn't wan to have a farm with thousands of hives. I worked for a place with 4,000 hives. The trucks and the employees and the equipment. It looked like too much, but from what I've seen, it's hard to make much of a profit with under 1,000 hives selling honey. That's nice you can make money from pollination services. Here, most people make their income from selling queen bees. No one pays for pollination.
If I could offer some advice about selling online, don't make a website of your own unless you already have a lot of customers you're already selling to through other avenues who would go to your website. Otherwise, your website is just one more honey website among the thousands on the internet. If you're not continuing to update it, you won't get many visitors.
@@BeekeepingMadeSimple do you sell queens?
👍👌🎈 from Greece !!!
Aloha! What's beekeeping like in Greece? Maybe similar to us in Hawaii? Is the Langstroth hive the standard equipment you use as well?
@@BeekeepingMadeSimpleLangstroth not Most are Dadant hives
@@pepperKingdom Interesting!
$10 Australian per kg Coffs Harbour Australia
$12 a lb here in East Central alabama
Not bad!
I have honey but I don't have market
Sounds like you're going to have to find stores to sell to.
The price of honey has a lot to do with branding, as in the case with the rare Hawaiian Honey. It is all about the story.
Going to the store and comparing prices is a sure way to make $2. an hour. The farmers market is where the best prices can be achieved.
Most hobby beekeepers make less than $10. an hour. Most are oblivious to the time and money they are putting in. They rationalize the hard work and expense as trying to save the bees.
Making money is all about MARKETING and the story. I know a successful beekeeper who sells honey as "medicine." Medicine is expensive.
True! Most farmers I know have a part-time job working for someone else AND run their farm. It's such a shame the price that honey goes for in the U.S.
@@BeekeepingMadeSimple It will bee interesting to see if the mainstream corporate scheme of shadiness could drive the price up naturally for the 'real thing' though.
For example; Impossible Foods and lab grown meat, disgust a lot of people.
Honey isn't that route yet. But you are starting to see the stuff in the stores mixed with corn syrup(?) in certain places already.
@@noahriding5780 I think it already has! Otherwise, I don't think people would make the extra effort to go to a farmer's market or that little health food store or even buy organic when there's a huge grocery store right down the street selling variations of real food for much less. Unfortunately, a lot of people are too busy or don't have the money or for whatever reason just want to buy the cheapest option than pay the premium cost for the real stuff. I get frustrated when I hear people complain about how expensive raw honey or organic products are but then they spend $5 on a bag of chips that's mostly air or $7 on a Starbucks coffee! Being sick and missing work because your body isn't getting good nutrition is expensive too.
Thanks for the comment! You can also make money by doing the complete opposite. Some apiaries have thousands of hives and sell their honey by the barrel and bucket. I, personally, hate sitting at the market. I don't want to give up my weekend and sit in the hot sun all day. To sell wholesale and make a profit, you really have to get to the point that you can buy some bottling equipment. Once you have a machine pouring the exact amount into a jar for you, things go a lot faster and the profit goes up.
Hello
I have some natural honey . I brought from Kyrgyzstan to show our good honey . But I didn't fine person or company who will work with me
Hiii
Little help....
We buy Manuka Honey her ın kuwait around 150$🫣
Wow! I have tried the manuka honey. It is really gross tasting. Do you use it for medicinal purposes?