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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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