On 11-Apr-14, at 10:17 PM, peter wrote:

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> Getting liquid honey from the bars is a pain.  You need a press of  
> some sort but still easy to make from local materials.   But this  
> may actually miss an opportunity.  A bar of honey from a top bar  
> hive is capped comb honey.  There is no wire. So to cutting the  
> comb into squares and put in boxes means that you have a quick and  
> simple product.  Comb honey often commands a great premium price  
> compared with liquid bottled honey. It implies quality to consumers  
> since you cannot adulterate comb.  But that is not selling in the  
> local market down the road, that is shipping the product to the  
> capital city or the nearest large city.  Marketing is going to be  
> just as important as increasing production.

Hi Peter and All

I attended several Top Bar presentations at Apimondia 2005 in Dublin  
Ireland.  I asked one of the presenters, G Solomon of Trinidad &  
Tobago,  if he produced comb honey.  He answered that there was no  
interest in comb honey at home and besides that, there was a very  
good local market for beeswax produced when the combs were crushed to  
extract the honey.

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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