Hi Waldig:

We sell most of it in barrels to the Alberta Honey Producers Co-op in Spruce 
Grove. Some of it (very little - I am not much of a salesman) we sell in 1 
kg or 3 kg tubs to friends.

It is granulated hard within a month, but we find that if you warm it up in 
hot tap water until it is soft and then stir it thoroughly it will stay soft 
for several weeks. The stirring seems to be the key. If you don't stir, it 
quickly resets itself. The stirring seems to disrupt the intergranular 
bonds.

The co-op, I believe, pasteurizes it as a matter of course. We used to put 
it up in glass jars, liquify it, and sell it to the health food stores, but 
they did not sell very quickly and we had to take them back and reliquify 
them after about three months. It did not seem to be worth the trouble.

We also used to make a lot of comb honey, but it had to be kept frozen until 
use to prevent granulation. We produced some this year as a by-product of 
our drone trapping experiment.


                                    Best regards

                                    Donald Aitken 

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