I was looking to find,if there were any Clubs in the Cook-DuPage-Lake County
area.
                                           Thank You
 
Kathy Hough wrote:
 
> Garth,
>
> It's always good to hear that somewhere else, yet another beekeeper is
> able to successfully market their honey at a fair price.
>
> In northeastern Mass., USA, we are currently getting $3.00 U. S. per
> lb.(in 1 lb. size) retail and $2.25 per 1 lb. jar wholesale (case lots
> only), though we may soon go up to $3.25 retail to not undercut our
> wholesale customer's prices. Our honey is also what is considered *raw*,
> not overheated (just warmed to ~100F for faster bottling) and not
> micro-filtered.
>
> > <snip>   I sell to diabetics and guarantee no sugar in the honey (for
> > some reeason that is bad), so sell often up to 20 bottles a time.
> > <snip>
>
> Several  people are having  trouble with the <snipped> portion of your
> original post.  I wonder if  you were trying to say that you guaranteed
> your honey to be free of any *added* sugars, sugars that have not been
> inverted by the bees??  If so, then you would be absolutely correct in
> stating that this would be valuable to some diabetics.  Insulin
> dependant diabetics, when they are not (sometimes cannot) controlling
> their blood sugar levels, will feel light headed and weak if they need
> to eat.  While some diabetics in the U.S. will grab for some candy when
> this occurs, both fruit juices and honey are a better choice.  Honey (i
> think) is the best choice because it is metabolized so quickly.
>
> Just a guess, but I'll bet that a 3rd year Biochem/Microbio student at
> Rhodes University knew that honey was ~80-87% sugars :-)
>
> Kathy