Hi Fred, your quote “I am noticing a lot more plastics making it’s way into the beekeeping industry”. The flow frames are classic examples. I’ve never been a fan of plastic frames or plastic foundation. I find the bees prefer wax foundation in wooden frames.
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Hiya ffffffffred, your honey looks great, do you filter it and do you print your own labels?
@Numbatino thanks for the offer but like to keep the jars I sell uniform, they’re the ones with the red and white check lids. If you want to bring one of your jars over I’ll fill it for ya for nix and can have a bee chat.
@JeffH single use plastic bags, my old bin liners, are banned here in the West now which is a win for the supermarkets as they charge for bags now yet all plastic wrappings on food remains. Deposits on bottles and cans has been thrown around but it goes quiet quickly.
Great, now I’m ranting!
Soz for going off topic Terry. 
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I consider it unfiltered as I just pass it through a funnel with a ‘built in coarse strainer’, the holes are the size of fat tooth pick - it’s more to keep inquisitive bees out when I rob the hive…
yes, the funnel is plastic… I blame the wife, she bought it 
We’ve yet to print any labels, but my mother in law owns a signage business so we have access to printing equipment… otherwise we were just going to print onto some Avery labels we have lying around. We’re not planning on selling at this stage - we’re stocktaking as gifts at the moment. Things might change next season.
Just add the word ‘hills’ to keep on track 
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They banned single use plastic bags here as well, I also miss them. It’s probably a blessing in disguise because the thicker bags don’t break so easy when I freeze bread in them. I buy them new from the place you get Chinese take-away containers from.
On the issue of honey containers, take-away food containers are a cost effective way to package honey. You can pay a bit more & get tamper evident plastic containers that are air tight & work very well. They cost around 50c. & hold about 750g of honey.
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We are also giving everyone honey this year.
We have made up 60 x 130 gram tubs to give to everyone at our church, it is nice share our bounty and to be able to pass on a small blessing to others.
The rest of the harvest has gone into 500 gram to 1 Kilogram tubs for family and neighbors, some are straight honey, others are cut comb and honey.
We have only kept about 500 grams for our own use to see us through to the next harvest which at this rate wont be too far away.
We have decided to go with food grade reusable plastic containers, mainly due to the failure of people to return jars for refills.
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I think that is a sensible choice Terry. It’s amazing how much honey can be harvested from a couple of hives.
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@numbatino, i had a similar feeling when I first had only a full flow super. I got around it initially by getting a half depth super… and ended up with over 8kg of fresh cut comb in a single season. I then got a hybrid flow and have been using that (it also assists with cycling frames).
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There’s apparently a place (charity?) in Vic Pk that gives away jars. Unfortunately I can’t recall the name (and I’ve never been…)
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Thanks for that. I never heard of it. I think empty jars are quite easy to acquire if you look out for them.
I would never, ever buy an empty jar… with so many perfectly fine jars going to the landfill. It kills me. Who cares if they’re not exactly the same? I’m not Capilano.
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