> Mark B. asks $8.00 to produce a lb of honey?  Yes!

I, too, charge $8 a pint at a local fleamarket . I live in Brooklyn NY in an 
urban brownsone neighborhood  and have only three hives on my roof.  I sell 
it as a novelty item. (Brooklyn honey????!!!) and people are enchanted by it 
both before they try it and especially after they try it. It gets raves.I 
am a beekeeper strictly for love and used to sell it more cheaply, but when 
I discovered that Manhattan honey  ("New York Rooftop Honey") was going for 
$8 the *1/2 pint* at a Manhattan  greenmarket I decided to raise my rates. I 
am semi-retired and have small pension, so my honey business keeps me in 
pocket money.
John Howe
The Brooklyn Bee.

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