🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[5Australorpasaures]

Might be wrong but I believe the plastic containers such as the honey bears cost less than quart jars.

They are less expensive. But for me, Get ready..........THEY'RE PLASTIC! 

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Whatever the grocery stores are charging, you can charge higher for local honey especially if it meets the qualifications to be sold as raw honey.

Honey is normally sold by weight, not volume. A 12 oz. honey bear will hold 12 oz. of honey or 8 oz. of water.

Here local honey has $1 to $2 mark up in the local grocery stores. People pay for the convenience of grabbing as they shop.

 

[R2elk]

Pints only roughly a pound +.

Pints hold 16 oz. of water. They should hold 24 oz. (1 .5 lbs.) of honey.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Pints hold 16 oz. of water. They should hold 24 oz. (1 .5 lbs.) of honey.

Spring Honey here is lighter in weight and color than fall by .75 to 1 ozs on average per pt. In a Mason pt jar after a tare, by volume is still maybe 17 ozs. If I weighed out 16 ozs in a Mason and sold that way folks would think I had my finger on the scale. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4d/6f/cf/4d6fcf825063f1abdb39d5622631c3b7.jpg

 

[5Australorpasaures]

That's always the way it works...lol

Yep

 

[Sally PB]

but I'm still in the hole, sorta like what your first egg costs

Or, I could figure my first egg cost $3000. And then the rest are just the cost of food and other upkeep.

So our first harvest of honey cost us about $1400.

They are less expensive. But for me, Get ready..........THEY'RE PLASTIC!

Yeah, we don't want to store honey in plastic, so that's why we're going with mason jars.

 

[R2elk]

Yeah, we don't want to store honey in plastic,

I have had zero issues with storing honey in plastic.