Let us sell your honey!

Requirements for Guild Consignment:

The Guild maintains the licenses with the City to sell and sample honey. We also provide the tent and other equipment needed for a successful market. We sign up for events and pay vendors fees. We manage the number of beekeepers at each market so everyone who shows will make at least $300 per event.

We do all of this to make it as easy as possible for you to sell your honey at the best possible mark up. These are the rules for selling honey:

• You are a current member at the Hobbyist or Beekeeper levels.
• You are selling honey that your bees have made. No reselling.
• Your honey was extracted and bottled in a certified honey kitchen or other approved facility. More on state regulations here.
• Your label conforms to state labeling guidelines.
• You bring your honey to the events that you sign up for. The Guild will not manage inventory except by prior agreement.
• We manage the number of beekeepers at each event so that everyone who shows up is likely to make $300 or more based on past sales at each event. For example, if we have been running an event for several years and we know that average sales are $1,500 we will sign up 5 beekeepers to sell at that event. A board or events committee member will attend every event and handle checking people out so you can concentrate on selling. For new events we will make our best guess. Everyone can sell at Honey Fest.
• Consignment rates are 20% if you show up and 40% if you don’t. The amount of honey that we sell for folks who don’t show up will be limited.
• Consignment payments are sent by check within 2 weeks of an event. Payments for multiple events will be combined when possible.

Please LOG IN and fill out the form below to let us know that you’d like to consign honey.
If you can see the form then you are logged in and your membership qualifies for honey sales.

Pricing

All sizes are BY WEIGHT. Honey is always sold by weight. These are 2026 prices for the sizes shown. If you plan to sell other sizes let us know in advance so we can enter them into our platform.

Guidelines and Suggestions:

• State Regulations: We are retailing your honey, so it must be packed according to PA State regulations. If you use our honey kitchen you will be in compliance. We really want you to use the honey kitchen if you can!
• If you don’t want to use our honey kitchen you can register your facility (kitchen, garage, basement, etc.) There are a number of publications that cover processing and labeling of honey.
  • ‘Selling Honey in PA‘ is a document from Karen Roccasecca, our State Apiarist. Follow the directions under the heading 2. If honey producer sells off-site of his or her farm. The document also contains labeling guidelines.
  • GUIDELINES FOR HONEY PROCESSORS IN PA is a publication from the PA Dept. of Agriculture. It covers a lot of the same ground as the document above, with more detail on handling and the criteria that the inspector will use to evaluate your honey kitchen.
  • Limited Food Establishments is a PA Dept. of Agriculture page that explains why a honey kitchen is considered ‘limited’ and has a link to the (rather long) form that you need to apply for this type of license.
• Suggestions: We have found certain things to be helpful when selling honey at our events.
  • Location: You have to provide an address and your name on your label. We find that honey that is labeled with the specific location of the apiary, at least at the zip code level, sells better. Part of the appeal of what we’re doing is that the honey is LOCAL, so letting people know where the bees lived helps.
  • Crystallization: crystallized honey, unless it’s creamed honey, does not sell as well as liquid honey. We all know there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s a natural process, etc. We explain that to customers but it doesn’t help much. If your honey is crystallized it probably won’t sell well.
  • Being there: The single most powerful sales tool is to attend the event and talk to customers. If you can make it out to any event to talk to people directly you will sell more honey.
  • Your Story: If you can’t be there the more information you can give us about your honey and your history in beekeeping the better. Our sellers – you guys – do learn each other’s stories and it really helps when we can talk to the customer about what differentiates your product.
  • Jars or Containers: We accept the sizes (by weight) above. Many different jars are available in these sizes and you can use any jar you like as long as it is one of the sizes we list. We haven’t really noticed any advantage or disadvantage to different jars. Remember that honey is 50% heavier than water for the same volume so a pint of honey (volume) will weigh a pound and a half.