Sir I am not good to speak English language but I understand well I m from Indian side kashmir I'm a beekeeper. but sir 1 word i want to say that best ever knowledgeable video I watched that is your this video sir lots of love to you
Thank you for an informative video. There were a few tips I’d not previously thought of. I sell my honey in our village Post Office, I target local customers, my label has an iconic line drawing of our Parish Church and calls out the village name on the label. At the point of getting into our Post Office they already stocked honey from a nearby Beekeeper but my branding and sales pitch got me in. 👍
Hei Owen! Seen you on TV! I don’t think there are stingless bees! Gallet ti neud yn siwr bod ti’n cael haid sy’n weddol ‘docile’. Wi credu bod pob un sy’n cadw gwenyn yn cael ei bigo cofia. Mae’n inevitable. Wi’n cadw gardd sy’n llawn planhigion mae gwenyn yn hoffi - aconite a crocus yn y gwanwyn wedyn scabiosa, dianthus, snapdragon, delphinium yn yr haf. Sedum, ffarwel haf (aster) a grug porffor yn yr hydref. Mae iorwg hefyd yn late pollinator ac yn bwysig fel blodyn olaf y flwyddyn i roi bwyd i’r gwenyn :)
Very interesting and some very good tips too. From a business perspective it would be interesting to know what you calculate your costs at for say a 12 oz jar? I used to sell my honey some years back when I had a lot more hives than I have today, and seem to remember that the cost of proper jars, lids, and labels alone came somewhere pretty close to £1 a jar (unless you are a very big producer and can order big bulk orders). Add to that all the other relevant costs of producing honey and I would guess that it would not really be worth selling honey at anything less than £5 for a 12 oz jar?
Thats correct, the bigger scale you are you benefit from cheaper labels, jars, lids etc. If you want to be competitive then buying stuff by the pallet is the only way really if you want to sell trade that is. If your selling retail then the price of a jar and label doesn't matter. You should be able to get £7 for 12oz of honey direct to retail. Its selling to trade that makes the margins tight. The longer you can sell to the end customer the better you are. But your growth is limited that way.
Hi, Thank you, We designed them ourselves with the help of our printers. We use a local firm. I would always recommend using a local printers for your labels. Much easier when you can visit them in person. To design you labels you can use free software like Canva.com
How are your quail getting on... Mine are freeloaders No eggs for months now. Brilliant vid by the way, could you cover the lot number issue, as in what does it mean, is it just location of a hive or apairy? 🐝
I am from Zanzibar, Tanzania. I interested doing buy from beekeeper process/Lebel and sell honey. I have learned few things about Pure Honey and their benefits, What should i be careful of ensure i keep getting pure honey from beekeeper. I have learned more from your videos about the size of jar, my market will more more to tourism industry and healthily. Also i will go deep promoting healthy benefit of honey to community for that case i need more knowledge on Beekeeping and Honey i think. Thanks for your video make me more comfortable and happy for what i am about to work on. For my case! any idea on what to do better, will be much appreciated
Hi, glad you found the video useful. 😊 The best thing is knowledge when it comes to buying honey from beekeepers. Do you know them? Are the trustworthy? Have you seen their hives? Another thing you can do to be perfectly safe is to send a sample of the honey off to get tested at a lab.
@@gwenyngruffydd I'm in urban Cardiff so only small gardens in my immediate area! Are you around Swansea area by any chance? I was there last year at one of the farmer markets and picked up some local honey. In fact there's one on tomorrow round here so I may have to see what's going.
No not in swansea, we are in a few shops there as I know our supplier delivers there. But we don’t do anything in person there. Cardiff has a Beekeeing association so may be worth joining as they could have somewhere for you to keep bees or at least have a go.
How many retailers understand that someone starting out may not have a large enough harvest to be a year-round supplier ? Or should a beginner lay by a couple of hundred pounds of honey in reserve before making the first move ?
Great question. I’f your selling into a small community shop then they would totally understand the situation and won’t be an issue. Once you go to larger type shops shelf space is crucial and they need to be full all the time. They can’t afford to be out of anything. As you start off I would suggest picking 1 small shop see how much they sell a month and if you’ve got plenty of stock at that rate then get another shop. Always worth keeping reserve at home! Next year could be a bad year and you’ll be glad of the reserves!!
I have been told that to sell honey to a small local shop you need to be registered with your local council's trading standards and have a food hygiene certificate. Are these necessary? Thanks
Technically yes. Although some councils are more strict than others. My advice would be to get everything in place and you won’t need to worry about it 😊
Good talk but you mist making sure the labels are legal and preparing the Honey properly for sale most new beekeepers haven't got a clue and they don't prepare honey properly you can see bits in it different weights they take crystallized honey that set rock hard or frosted just looks awful it's good for a new beekeeper to enter Honey in a show this helps them understand how to prepare your honey for sale. Good to join a local club they will teach honey extraction and preparing honey for sale.
When I took honey to our local shop to see if he would sell it for us we took 6 jars he said how much is it when we told him the trade price he said no no no no nobody will pay that here this is a local shop he buys honey from bookers at £2 a Jar I said ok I said we will leave you the honey to see if it sells he didn't want to offend us so he said ok because he's our local shop when we went back to the shop 2 Days Later to get a paper he said have you got more of that honey because that you brought sold straight away he's been selling are honey ever since for years.
wowww thank yo for this, first year bee keeper and very, very informative
Sir I am not good to speak English language but I understand well I m from Indian side kashmir I'm a beekeeper. but sir 1 word i want to say that best ever knowledgeable video I watched that is your this video sir lots of love to you
Thank you so much 😊
Good video and good topic to go over, watching in North Carolina.
That’s for watching from so far away and taking the time to comment . Much appreciated 😊
Thank you for an informative video. There were a few tips I’d not previously thought of. I sell my honey in our village Post Office, I target local customers, my label has an iconic line drawing of our Parish Church and calls out the village name on the label. At the point of getting into our Post Office they already stocked honey from a nearby Beekeeper but my branding and sales pitch got me in. 👍
Thanks Pete 😊 glad to hear you got your honey in. A local post office is a great outlet.
You should be a business teacher! Great video, makes me want to start a honey business someday! 😁
😁😁😁 bees go great with gardening!!
@@gwenyngruffydd are there any stingless honey bees? We quite a small garden and have often decided against bees incase we get stung!😃
Hei Owen! Seen you on TV! I don’t think there are stingless bees! Gallet ti neud yn siwr bod ti’n cael haid sy’n weddol ‘docile’. Wi credu bod pob un sy’n cadw gwenyn yn cael ei bigo cofia. Mae’n inevitable. Wi’n cadw gardd sy’n llawn planhigion mae gwenyn yn hoffi - aconite a crocus yn y gwanwyn wedyn scabiosa, dianthus, snapdragon, delphinium yn yr haf. Sedum, ffarwel haf (aster) a grug porffor yn yr hydref. Mae iorwg hefyd yn late pollinator ac yn bwysig fel blodyn olaf y flwyddyn i roi bwyd i’r gwenyn :)
@@Knappa22 do, dwi wedi bod ar Garddio a Mwy yn 2019 a Gardeners' World blwyddyn yma! Diolch am y tips, falle dylai edrych mewn iddo fe bach mwy! :)
Unfortunately no.
Very interesting and some very good tips too. From a business perspective it would be interesting to know what you calculate your costs at for say a 12 oz jar? I used to sell my honey some years back when I had a lot more hives than I have today, and seem to remember that the cost of proper jars, lids, and labels alone came somewhere pretty close to £1 a jar (unless you are a very big producer and can order big bulk orders). Add to that all the other relevant costs of producing honey and I would guess that it would not really be worth selling honey at anything less than £5 for a 12 oz jar?
Thats correct, the bigger scale you are you benefit from cheaper labels, jars, lids etc. If you want to be competitive then buying stuff by the pallet is the only way really if you want to sell trade that is.
If your selling retail then the price of a jar and label doesn't matter. You should be able to get £7 for 12oz of honey direct to retail.
Its selling to trade that makes the margins tight. The longer you can sell to the end customer the better you are. But your growth is limited that way.
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Thanks for the video. I really like your labels, did you design them yourself? Where do you get them from?
Hi,
Thank you, We designed them ourselves with the help of our printers. We use a local firm. I would always recommend using a local printers for your labels. Much easier when you can visit them in person. To design you labels you can use free software like Canva.com
How are your quail getting on...
Mine are freeloaders
No eggs for months now.
Brilliant vid by the way, could you cover the lot number issue, as in what does it mean, is it just location of a hive or apairy? 🐝
Mine are freeloaders at the moment too!! But it is the wrong time of year for eggs. Not enough daylight.
Will do! 😊👍🏻👍🏻
I am from Zanzibar, Tanzania. I interested doing buy from beekeeper process/Lebel and sell honey. I have learned few things about Pure Honey and their benefits, What should i be careful of ensure i keep getting pure honey from beekeeper. I have learned more from your videos about the size of jar, my market will more more to tourism industry and healthily. Also i will go deep promoting healthy benefit of honey to community for that case i need more knowledge on Beekeeping and Honey i think. Thanks for your video make me more comfortable and happy for what i am about to work on.
For my case! any idea on what to do better, will be much appreciated
Hi, glad you found the video useful. 😊
The best thing is knowledge when it comes to buying honey from beekeepers. Do you know them? Are the trustworthy? Have you seen their hives?
Another thing you can do to be perfectly safe is to send a sample of the honey off to get tested at a lab.
Hi mate, quick Q. Just for a bit of beginner hobbyist beekeeping, how much space do I need? Got only a small garden!
You don’t need much land people are the problem. You don’t want anyone getting stung. Do you know anyone with a large garden or a field?
@@gwenyngruffydd I'm in urban Cardiff so only small gardens in my immediate area! Are you around Swansea area by any chance? I was there last year at one of the farmer markets and picked up some local honey. In fact there's one on tomorrow round here so I may have to see what's going.
No not in swansea, we are in a few shops there as I know our supplier delivers there. But we don’t do anything in person there.
Cardiff has a Beekeeing association so may be worth joining as they could have somewhere for you to keep bees or at least have a go.
How many retailers understand that someone starting out may not have a large enough harvest to be a year-round supplier ? Or should a beginner lay by a couple of hundred pounds of honey in reserve before making the first move ?
Great question. I’f your selling into a small community shop then they would totally understand the situation and won’t be an issue.
Once you go to larger type shops shelf space is crucial and they need to be full all the time. They can’t afford to be out of anything.
As you start off I would suggest picking 1 small shop see how much they sell a month and if you’ve got plenty of stock at that rate then get another shop.
Always worth keeping reserve at home! Next year could be a bad year and you’ll be glad of the reserves!!
Can I get access to the Bee Mentorship in Englandshire ? Carmarthen boy see tempted accross the border by a Sais Merch 😉
I don’t think you can through farming connect you’ll need to tempt her back over over the border with you!! 😁😉
@@gwenyngruffydd aye place down near Haveafightwest would suit me lovely !
Nice country that way. Love Pembrokeshire 😊❤️
@@gwenyngruffydd sun,surf and bees 😉
😁😁😁
I have been told that to sell honey to a small local shop you need to be registered with your local council's trading standards and have a food hygiene certificate. Are these necessary? Thanks
Technically yes. Although some councils are more strict than others.
My advice would be to get everything in place and you won’t need to worry about it 😊
I have recently placed honey in a local florist. The florist are taking a 20% commission. What your thoughts o this
20% is fair. Some want 40%
Under 20% is not fair for the shop. Ideal margin for them is 20%-40%
Good talk but you mist making sure the labels are legal and preparing the Honey properly for sale most new beekeepers haven't got a clue and they don't prepare honey properly you can see bits in it different weights they take crystallized honey that set rock hard or frosted just looks awful it's good for a new beekeeper to enter Honey in a show this helps them understand how to prepare your honey for sale. Good to join a local club they will teach honey extraction and preparing honey for sale.
All good points there. 😊👍🏻
When I took honey to our local shop to see if he would sell it for us we took 6 jars he said how much is it when we told him the trade price he said no no no no nobody will pay that here this is a local shop he buys honey from bookers at £2 a Jar I said ok I said we will leave you the honey to see if it sells he didn't want to offend us so he said ok because he's our local shop when we went back to the shop 2 Days Later to get a paper he said have you got more of that honey because that you brought sold straight away he's been selling are honey ever since for years.
Excellent story!! 😊😊 and great for both parties. And the people who buy there!👍🏻👍🏻