I have been asked a time or two at the farm market about comb honey but have just never seemed to get around to producing any. Well, a couple months ago I thought I would take the plunge and throw on a couple boxes for a lark. I have a yard that consists of almost nothing but swarms, so I put boxes on 2 of them. One has drawn out some and the other nothing. I had a request from someone in the city for comb honey so I pulled
2 frames and gave it a go. Big thanks goes out to Riverbee and her video on how to do it, it was easy after that.
I made up 2 packages, one with 1 kilo (2.2 lbs) as per customers request, and the second contained over 800 grams (1.75 lbs.) and the remaining 4 pieces (ends) I cut and stuffed into 4 jars, added liquid honey and sold it as chunk honey.
I was floored by the response!
1 kilo comb honey went for $30 (customer ordered).
Second comb honey the first person who spotted it bought for $25.
The 4 jars of 500 gram chunk honey sold for $8 each versus $6 for regular honey
Aside from the liquid honey I added to the 4 jars, these
2 frames of comb honey brought in
$87!
I think I'll be looking to put more boxes out next year, I have 12 comb honey supers that I've had sitting around for years.