| Large beekeepers can not turn a profit if they | | | | parallel with the container's base. Do not authorize |
| limit their market to their local community. | | | | a label if the design does not incorporate your |
| Beekeepers who have several colonies must be | | | | name (or your farm's name) and your address. If |
| able to sell their product at larger grocery stores | | | | you use a packing or distribution company their |
| and supermarkets if they want to remain | | | | name and address must also be included on the |
| financially solvent. | | | | label. The final thing that needs to be clearly |
| In order for beekeepers to sell their honey to a | | | | printed on the label is the net weight of the |
| larger market their packaging must meet certain | | | | honey. If the honey you are marketing weighs |
| USDA standards. | | | | between one to four pounds then the weight has |
| The first thing beekeepers have to decide is what | | | | to be written in both pounds and ounces. The |
| kind of container they want to use to hold their | | | | print size used to show the net weight is not |
| honey. The standard size of containers used to | | | | random, the font size is determined by the size |
| sell honey are measured in pounds. The typical | | | | and shape of the container. |
| amount of honey offered to the customers can | | | | If you are a beekeeper who harvests your |
| be as small an amount as a half pound or as large | | | | honey more then once a season you might be |
| as five pounds of honey. Some stores perfect to | | | | able to write what flavor of honey you are selling. |
| sell honey that is measured in gallons, these | | | | You might have honey that is flavored with |
| stores offer their customers the option of | | | | clover, alfalfa, or apple blossoms. |
| purchasing a container of honey as small as a half | | | | Labels that have words such as unfiltered, natural, |
| pint or as large as one gallon. If, as a beekeeper, | | | | raw, and areanic refer to honey that has not |
| you are attracted to novelty containers you can | | | | been processed. |
| choose from a variety of fun containers such as | | | | Beekeepers who have USDA (United States |
| skeps, bears, and plastic squeeze bottles. | | | | Department of Agriculture) grades printed on the |
| Once you have settled on the perfect bottle for | | | | label have passed a set of USDA grade standards. |
| your honey you have to design an equally perfect | | | | Honey that has a USDA grade of A has passed |
| label. Before you start designing a label for your | | | | the exacting government standards. Honey that |
| honey check with your state government, most | | | | has a USDA grade of D has passed only a bare |
| states have several laws and requirements about | | | | minimum of standards. The USDA grades honey |
| how labels appear on products. Make sure that | | | | based on the amount of moisture in the honey, |
| the word honey is written in bold letters across | | | | clarity, flavor quality, and defects. |
| the label. The word should stand out and really | | | | Information on honey bee hive can be found at |
| catch the casual shopper's eye. Most graphic | | | | the Bee Facts site. |
| designers recommend that the honey should run | | | | |