Campbell's Honeyhouse store is open for honey sales from Aug 1st, to September 30th each season. We have a special offer that our customers appreciate during that time. When they bring their own containers, we fill them directly out of the honey tank. This is economical for them, as they have no need to buy plastic honey containers, plus, it's good for the environment. We are open for bulk honey sales (by the drum), most of the year, and we have just recently sold the last of the 2008 honey crop.
In years past, the bulk of our product was exported by Truck to the much larger American market. Large 'Product of USA' Honey Packers quite openly desire Canadian honey which, because of its light color and gentle flavor, mixes well with cheaper off-shore honey varieties. At the present time there is a world-wide shortage of honey, due to CCD ( colony collapse disease),several years of unfavourable weather, plus the fact that many beekeepers, both in Canada, and the US, have been unable to cope with low honey prices, and huge honeybee losses due to CCD.
Eating locally is becoming vogue in rural Ontario, and we are already noticing a rise in local demand as the trend grows. The '100 mile diet' is fast becoming fashionable, as people choose to consume food produced within one hundred miles of their homes.
Locally grown food including Honey is being promoted by the Local Fall Fairs as a food product of the '100 mile diet,' and this is encouraging the rise in consumption.
At the present time we are suppliers to a Packer who has a contract to supply local supermarkets and other food stores. We also supply another local Producer / Packer who runs several hundred colonies of his own bees, but who always needs extra honey to fill his contract with a food manufacturing company. Several other smaller Packers, and or Honey Producers, often ask for one of more drums to fill their needs at Fall Fairs and Farmer's Markets. One 45 gal. drum of honey weighs 600 lb. net.
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