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Lorrainelovesplants
Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6514
Location: Dordogne
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 Posted: Thu Apr 10, 08 10:42 am Post subject: price of honey |
 
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was in Cornwall farmers at launceston the other day.
They are selling a pound of honey from a local producer for £5.
Dearest honey Ive seen locally.....must increase my prices! |
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judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire
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The price has gone up horrendously. I think the very cheapest I have seen local honey is £3.50, with £4 being more usual. £5 is just unbelievable though.
I really need to overcome my beephobia. |
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LynneA
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Posts: 4893
Location: London N21
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Well, I swapped 10 jerusalem artichoke tubers for a jar of honey a couple of months back. As B&Q were selling 3 tubers for £2.98, that works out at about a tenner!
But a fiver seems steep to me. |
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Jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 34918
Location: Devon
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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. |
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joanne
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7094
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire
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Its due to the awful Summer we had last year - there was so little honey produced that the stocks that are left have rocketed in price
I sold my honey at £3.50 a jar at the garden gate and to friends - Although I didn't really have any spare to sell to anyone else and most of my friends got it for nothing anyway |
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gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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I'd better stock up - honey, including heather honey, is still £3.50 from the chap on our Farmers Market. |
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Jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 34918
Location: Devon
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 08 11:29 am Post subject: |
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| gil wrote: |
| I'd better stock up - honey, including heather honey, is still £3.50 from the chap on our Farmers Market. |
I would. |
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dougal
Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent
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Dunno how widely this was reported...
From yesterday's Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3708819.ece
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The creation of a Dad’s Army-style force to protect honey bees from killer diseases was announced by the Government yesterday.
The plan was included in a new package of measures to save the hives of 200 to 300 commercial beekeepers and an estimated 44,000 hobby owners that are under threat from new pests and infections predicted to hit Britain in the next ten years.
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The strategy, announced by Lord Rooker, Food and Farming Minister, coincides with evidence from the British Bee Keepers’ Association that the country has lost 25 to 30 per cent of its bee colonies in the past year ... |
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twoscoops
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1924
Location: Warwickshire
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 08 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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£4.49 here. |
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mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24569
Location: mid-Wales
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| judith wrote: |
The price has gone up horrendously. I think the very cheapest I have seen local honey is £3.50, with £4 being more usual. £5 is just unbelievable though.
I really need to overcome my beephobia. |
judith: don't forget the bee co-op: I'm sure we (Chez & I) could come to an exchange arrangement with you. What would you like to swap for honey? 
And you could come over to meet the bees one day if you like. All 4 hives doing well. |
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alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 12908
Location: North Devon
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North Devon apairy have just advised its members the price should be £5 a lb |
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Lorrainelovesplants
Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6514
Location: Dordogne
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My bees are away in the rape - so Ill have to harvest early, and Im going for £5 a jar. If they dont like it, they dont need to buy it. |
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Tradbritfowlco
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Posts: 526
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according to the bbc today, bees will be exctinct in 10 years! 
i love honey, £5 a jar is worth it for me, especially borage honey  |
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Tavascarow
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 08 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| Lorrainelovesplants wrote: |
| My bees are away in the rape - so Ill have to harvest early, and Im going for £5 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 £3.50 a jar & will probably keep the price the same this year. |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35904
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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We sold ours for £3.50 for a 12oz jar last year. |
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