Saturday August 17 is National Honey Bee Day. OBBA will once again be participating in this great fun event. Bottle up your honey, make your candles, lip balms and potions and start cooking those delicious jams, jellies and baked goods. We have the Exhibit Hall, Azalea and Rose Rooms at the Extension offices so will have a repeat of our May event. The Honey Queens will put on cooking demos in the Rose Room, J.R. Denamn will show a short documentary and host the "Ask the Beekeeper" forum and we will sell our goods in the Exhibit Hall. Show up at 9:00 a.m. to set up tables. Bring decorations for your own table. As usual, we will be at the Extension offices located at 6021 S. Conway Road, Orlando, the event will be open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Volunteers and exhibitors are to arrive by 9:00 and are expected to help set up and take down. Link to Examples of Cottage Food labels floridabeekeepers.org/CottageFoods.htm This Link goes into great detail about Cottage food. Including both allowed and not allowed freshfromflorida/fs/CottageFoodAdvisoryWithFormNumber.pdf Recommended Prices of Honey 6oz Jars or Bears $5.00 8oz Jars or Bears $6.00 12oz Jars or Bears $8.00 1lb Jars or Bears $10.00 2lb Jars or Bears $20.00 Links for Bottles sailorplastics/ mannlakeltd/ dadant/ LABELS: A local printer, Mike Norman, has made the labels for OBBA honey bears. They are cut with rounded corners and are plastic coated. He can take your artwork and make a label. He already has the Cottage Food label as a template and can print them easily and cheaply. His number is: 407-399-3702. You can sell your honey, jams and jellies, candles, beauty products, etc. at this event. Compliance with the cottage foods rule is mandatory so please review this very simple rule. We look forward to a fun, prosperous event for all.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:46:16 +0000
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