Selling Honey Selling Beeswax Selling Candles Selling Polishes Selling Sundry Products Book Keeping		"A-Z" INDEX &   SEARCH Selling Produce and Products of the Bee Hive Most beekeepers are adept in producing honey, but they find difficulty in marketing and selling the finished article. There are also many other products of the bee hive that are under exploited by most beekeepers for the same reasons. I hope to show, here and in the list of links at left, how a beekeeper may improve his (or her) product range and market the items successfully. The last item will show you how to keep the necessary financial records that may help reduce your taxation burden.

Try to find some different products that will make you "unique".  I managed this by developing the range of Cutting Compounds. But be careful not to fall foul of the Trading Standards Legislation.

Think up ways to "add value", fancy packing may not be essential, but it raises the price that can be obtained for the honey involved. You can make quite an attractive little pack of five candles, each of which is made from a half a sheet of B.S. deep foundation (different colours). The packaging being made from inexpensive clear plastic foil that is intended for wrapping bunches of flowers.

Products like flavoured honey, for instance, come into the category of "manufactured foodstuffs" and require specially equipped premises. The standards to which these premises have to be kept are different from those associated with hobby level honey extraction.

Written... During 2000, Revised... Sometime in 2001, Upgraded... 12 September 2006,