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I put "Wild Flower Honey" on our labels, and tell folks that my bee are free range bees.

Yes dear?

My bees died. Haven’t replaced them yet.

Bought some honey a month ago from another bee keeper here on the island. It was pricey!

This is Okatoma River honey from Seminary MS.

Ronc: I am not much of a honey user but I buy a LOT of it every year for gifts to my relatives and friends for when they come to visit or I visit them.
These friends and relatives absolutely RAVE over how good the local Honey is from here in this high valley (5,200') in the Rocky Mountains.
The "Honey factory" (Beaverhead Honey) is just a couple miles from my home and their prices til very recently were amazingly low (factory sales!).
I paid $2.50 for the 8 ounce squeeze bottle and then $35.00 for one gallon containers and $60.00 for a two gallon container.
Late this summer I bought some of the 8 ounce containers and the new owners had raised the price to $3.00 per 8 ounce container now.
I am not sure as yet how much the 1 and 2 gallon containers of Honey will be.
Interestingly this Honey business packs up all their Bees every late fall into 8 semi-truck loads and takes them to kalifornicationkopia (california) for the winter where they spend that time pollinating Almond trees!
The Bee keeper is under contract to do this and it is my understanding that he is paid very well for this.
Then in early spring he trucks all his hives back to our valley and the Bees easily readjust to pollinating and gathering honey from the clover/alfalfa here.
Bees are amazing creatures.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I charge $20.00 per quart for wildflower organic honey. This year I averaged 60 pounds of honey per hive.

I paid $50(gallon) for mesquite honey. I paid $45 for desert honey ( which is is a lot of mesquite but also has some alfalfa and other blossoms in it). I have tried about every honey I can find including some local varieties to the Arctic this summer. Mesquite is about the best there is. I think my buddy made 800 gallons of honey this year. I tried to get some more but it is sold out.

You can buy honey for cheaper but the pasteurized grocery store honey is not nearly as good as the local raw honey.

used to be able to get orange blossom honey in the Valley, probably not anymore.

Sycamore

I get mine from Neil Taylor in Fayette County .

Orange blossom honey is still easy to come by, it's just not as good as desert honey- especially mesquite.

I think it runs about $40/qt.

I get mine from my old middle school english teacher. I have no idea what kind it is, I'm guessing whatever grows wild in east tn. Its kinda dark and very strong. Delish in oatmeal with a dash of cinnamon.

Somewhere between 10 and 15 bucks here.

here 15 for 2lb of honey