Hey beekeepers!

[Quillback]

I was in the local Harps today.  They had honeycombs for sale, they were bite sized, maybe an inch and a half square.  They were priced at $7.99 each.  Seems excessive to me.

[BilletHead]

2 hours ago, Quillback said:

I was in the local Harps today.  They had honeycombs for sale, they were bite sized, maybe an inch and a half square.  They were priced at $7.99 each.  Seems excessive to me.

         Dang,

   Very excessive. How many bites do you want next season? 😁 Our bees are doing fantastic. I started adding frames. Swarm traps are ready to start putting out. 

[tjm]

@Quillback I'm pretty sure that I know a beekeeper within miles of you. I've not been over there for a few years, but I've not heard of him passing either, if interested I'll check up on him and get you a phone number.  I want to get some wax anyway. I used to take my own pickle jars and have him fill them with raw honey. There are also some honey producers in the Neosho area that my kids buy from. 

Have you looked at Allen's? they did have local honey, but it might be over priced.

 

[jdmidwest]

It's a niche market.  Most beekeepers extract the honey and use the comb again.  It is an expensive way to make honey when you make comb honey.  But I have seen those little dribbles at Harp's, I toss about $100 of those dribbles on the ground when I work hives and scrape off comb that they have stuffed in cracks and between frames.   Bees clean it up and put it back where it should be.

[Quillback]

8 hours ago, tjm said:

@Quillback I'm pretty sure that I know a beekeeper within miles of you. I've not been over there for a few years, but I've not heard of him passing either, if interested I'll check up on him and get you a phone number.  I want to get some wax anyway. I used to take my own pickle jars and have him fill them with raw honey. There are also some honey producers in the Neosho area that my kids buy from. 

Have you looked at Allen's? they did have local honey, but it might be over priced.

 

Thanks - I was just curious about why those little combs went for so much money; I didn't want to buy any.  

[BilletHead]

10 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

It's a niche market.  Most beekeepers extract the honey and use the comb again.  It is an expensive way to make honey when you make comb honey.  But I have seen those little dribbles at Harp's, I toss about $100 of those dribbles on the ground when I work hives and scrape off comb that they have stuffed in cracks and between frames.   Bees clean it up and put it back where it should be.

Sometimes the bees get it and sometimes I get it. I put it out and when finished it depends on if the bees have found it yet. 

[jdmidwest]

12 hours ago, BilletHead said:

Sometimes the bees get it and sometimes I get it. I put it out and when finished it depends on if the bees have found it yet. 

Brave man, I don't drop my shields until the bees are far away.