Honey pricing

[alclosier]

I would have taken a picture of the label but I was scarred I might drop it and have to pay for it!

[lindsay s]

Last year when I was selling my honey for £4.50 a jar I felt a bit guilty about the price but after coming across this in the Daily Mail it looks like mine was far too cheap. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/fo...price-tag.html
So following the example of the Tregothnan Cornish Floral Manuka Honey here’s how I intend to market mine this year (that’s if I get any).
I will start with a base price of £4.95 for a 12oz jar.
Add £5.00 because it’s from Orkney.
Add £5.00 because it’s from Varroa free bees.
Add £5.00 for the type of honey, it will be called Curly Dodie (Orcadian words for wild clover).
Add £5.00 because my bees will be working the same flowers as the very rare Great Yellow Bumble Bees.
That comes to only £24.95 for a jar of my honey. Oh I almost forgot the retailer still has to add their mark up. Please let me know if I have missed anything out.

Sorry about the link right click it and select open.

[gavin]

Add £5 because the bees are close to Apis mellifera mellifera, the native honeybee of Scotland (£10 if you'd documented that well)

Add £15 because the bees have been discussed on the foremost bee forum around, SBAi!

£45 and counting .......

[fatshark]

organic … pick a number, a large number

[Calum]

add 5 pounds because you do not gas your bees with cyanide or slaughter the drones in the autumn (FOE)
add 5 pounds bacause the atlantic air is free of fine particle polutants (therefore so is the honey)
add 5 pounds because of the naturally added sea salt from the briney air
add 25 pounds because they are the foraging bees of neolithic orkneys UNESCO site (if they are within 20 miles of it on a windy day)

[alclosier]

I think we are going around selling honey the wrong way! It must sell at that price in St Andrew's.