How Much Should You Sell Creamed Honey For? (2026 Pricing Guide)

You already sell plain honey, and one jar in the pantry turned solid and smooth instead of grainy. A customer tasted it on a cracker and asked if you sell "the spreadable kind." Now you have to decide what a jar of it is worth.

A search for this question on September 25, 2026 returned shopping pages from Walmart, Amazon, Cox's Honey and Harvest Barn, each listing one store price at a time. None of them tell you what a small honey vendor should write on the tag. This guide builds that number from prices checked the day it was written: what creamed honey sells for, how much more honey farms charge for it than for plain honey from the same hives, what a jar costs you, and what fees and wholesale take out.

How Much Should You Sell Creamed Honey For?

Sell a half-pint jar of plain creamed honey for $14, a 4-ounce jar for $8, and a flavored half-pint for $16. Those prices work whether you use your own honey or buy it, though buying honey cuts what you keep by about $2.79 a jar on your first batch and about $2.65 after that, and in some states, like Wisconsin, selling honey you bought from other beekeepers takes a license, so check first. The anchor is simple: take whatever you charge for the same jar of plain honey and add $1 to $2.

Here is the starting price ladder:

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The ladder is our recommendation, built on prices loaded September 25, 2026: Cox's Honey sells 11 ounces of creamed honey for $16 and 24 ounces for $25, and Savannah Bee Company sells 12 ounces of whipped honey for $19. Jar weights use USDA FoodData Central's figure of 339 grams for a cup of honey.

Three numbers back the $14 half-pint:

• Your plain jar. Our honey guide prices small jars of plain local honey at about $1 an ounce, so about $12 for 12 ounces. In Homegrown's catalog on September 25, 2026, plain honey sold by stated weight ran 51 cents to $1.19 an ounce, apart from one 4-ounce jar at $2.50. Creamed at $14 is $2 above a $12 plain jar.
• The farms that sell both. Cox's Honey and Savannah Bee Company each charge $1 more for creamed than for plain honey in an 11 or 12 ounce jar, as the table further down shows.
• Your supplies. Creamed honey uses the same honey, jar and label as plain. At $14 you keep about $8.71 on a half-pint of home-harvested honey after supplies, the card fee and paying yourself $20 an hour.

How to make it, what to flavor it with and where to sell it are covered in the companion guide on how to sell whipped honey and creamed honey from home. This page stays on the price.

What Does Creamed Honey Sell for Online and in Stores?

On September 25, 2026, creamed honey ran from 36 cents to $2.67 an ounce across the stores and honey farms in this guide. The cheap end is bulk: 5-pound and 12-pound buckets, and a 22-ounce grocery jar. The expensive end is small gift jars of 3 to 5.5 ounces. Half-pint sized jars from honey farms cluster between $1.45 and $2.08 an ounce.

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Every price was loaded on the listed page on September 25, 2026. Prices are before shipping and tax. "Marketplace" means an outside company sells through Walmart.com rather than Walmart itself.

What the spread tells you:

• The grocery jar is not your competition. Madhava's 22-ounce jar at 50 cents an ounce is a pantry staple for people who want the cheapest spread. Your customer is standing at your table because they want local.
• Honey farms selling online charge $1.45 to $2.08 an ounce for a jar near 12 ounces, before shipping. Cox's Honey lists its creamed honey in seven sizes, from an 11-ounce glass jar at $16 to a 12-pound bucket at $69.
• Small jars carry the highest price per ounce. A 3-ounce jar at $8 is $2.67 an ounce because the shopper is paying for the gift, the jar and the label as much as the honey.

A local $14 half-pint, at $1.17 an ounce, sits below every farm-direct 11 to 12 ounce jar in the table and well above the grocery shelf. Your customer also skips the shipping those websites charge.

How Much More Do Honey Farms Charge for Creamed Honey Than Plain?

Two honey farms that sell both kinds charge $0 to $4 more for creamed honey than for plain honey in the same container, a premium of 9 percent at most. That small premium was the most useful number found while checking prices for this guide. The one bigger gap is Cox's Honey's 5-pound size, where the creamed bucket costs $7 more than the plain jug, about 23 percent.

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Both columns come from each farm's own website, loaded September 25, 2026. Savannah Bee Company calls its creamed honey "whipped honey." The 5-pound pair is the one row where the containers differ: plain comes in a jug and creamed in a bucket.

There are good reasons the gap stays small:

• It is the same honey. Creamed honey is plain honey that crystallized in a controlled way, with fine crystals instead of coarse ones. Customers who know that will not pay double for it.
• Shoppers see both jars side by side. On a farm website or at your table, the plain and creamed jars sit next to each other, so the price gap is obvious.
• The extra cost is time and space, not ingredients. No extra honey, jar or label goes into a creamed jar. What you add is a few minutes of stirring and two weeks on a cool shelf.

Savannah Bee Company's Whipped Honey Original is a good example of a national brand pricing this way. It sells for $19 in a 12-ounce jar, one dollar above the same company's 12-ounce wildflower honey.

When Can You Charge More Than $2 Over Plain?

You can push creamed honey $3 or more above your plain jar when you are the only vendor at your market selling it, when it is flavored, or when it goes in a small gift jar. The $1 to $2 rule comes from websites where shoppers can compare everything. A Saturday market is different, because there may be no other creamed honey anywhere in the market.

Situations where a bigger premium holds up:

• You are the only creamed honey at the market. Shoppers have nothing to compare it to except your own plain jar, and a taste on a cracker does most of the selling.
• It is flavored. Cox's Honey charges $2 more for chocolate creamed honey than for plain creamed, and Savannah Bee charges $3 more for pumpkin spice in the 12-ounce size.
• It is in a 4-ounce jar. Small jars sell as gifts and stocking stuffers, and per-ounce prices climb fast. The farm prices above run $2.18 to $2.67 an ounce for jars under 6 ounces.
• It is the holiday season. A creamed honey gift jar competes with candles and cookies, not with a bear bottle of honey.

The flip side: if a larger honey farm at your market already sells creamed honey, price within a dollar of theirs, since their shoppers will compare.

What Does a Jar of Creamed Honey Cost You to Make?

A half-pint jar of creamed honey costs about $2.92 in supplies from your own honey, or about $5.71 if you buy retail honey and a store jar of creamed honey for seed. Seed honey is the finished creamed honey you stir into liquid honey so the whole batch sets with fine crystals. Most of the gap between the two columns is the honey itself.

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Supply prices loaded on Walmart.com on September 25, 2026: Ball 8-ounce jars at $11.98 for 12, Avery 2-inch round labels at $9.97 for 120, Fischers raw honey at $14.97 for 40 ounces, and Madhava creamed honey at $10.97 for 22 ounces. The $2.45 a pound is the 2025 co-op and private price in the USDA honey report released March 13, 2026. The split of 1 part seed to 10 parts honey is the ratio in our how-to guide. Totals are figured before rounding. After the first batch, seed held back from your own bought-honey batch costs about 41 cents a jar instead of 55, so later jars of bought honey cost about $5.57.

Why value your own honey at $2.45 a pound instead of zero? The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service reported that honey sold through co-ops and private buyers averaged $2.45 a pound in 2025, against $7.15 a pound at retail. That $2.45 is what the honey would bring if you sold it by the bucket. Pricing it at zero hides the fact that every jar of creamed honey is honey you could have sold plain.

A few things this table leaves out, and why:

• Booth fees. A market booth costs the same whether you bring creamed honey or not, so spread it across everything on your table.
• Your time. It gets its own line in the profit table below.
• Flavorings. A teaspoon of cinnamon per pound adds only a few cents a jar. Cocoa, vanilla or freeze-dried fruit cost more, which is part of why flavored jars carry the extra $2.

How Much Does the Seed Honey Add?

Seed honey adds about 17 cents a jar when it comes from your own last batch, and about 55 cents a jar for your very first batch if you buy a store jar to start. You only buy seed once. After that, you hold back a little of each batch to seed the next.

Here is the math on a first batch. A 22-ounce jar of Madhava creamed honey cost $10.97 on Walmart.com on September 25, 2026. At 1 part seed to 10 parts honey, 22 ounces of seed can set about 220 ounces of liquid honey, enough for about 20 half-pint jars. That puts the seed at about 55 cents a jar for batch one.

After the first batch, the math changes:

• Hold back two jars per batch. A 24-jar batch needs about 26 ounces of seed, so keep two half-pints of your best, smoothest batch unlabeled. Together they seed about 22 jars of the next batch. To seed the other 2, mix each batch about 3 tablespoons larger than its 24 jars need and keep that extra in a small covered cup with the two held-back jars, so the 22 jars you sell still go out full.
• Pick your finest batch for seed. The crystals in the seed set the texture of the next batch. Grainy seed gives you grainy honey.
• Count the held-back jars at what their honey is worth. Each new jar carries about 1.1 ounces of seed, and at $2.45 a pound that is the 17 cents a jar in the cost table.

What Are Two Weeks in a Cool Room Worth?

Creamed honey needs about one to two weeks on a shelf near 57 degrees to set, so the real cost is the shelf space and the wait, plus about two hours of hands-on work per batch. Honey crystallizes best at that temperature. The UF/IFAS guide to honey and its uses gives 57°F as the optimum crystallizing temperature, and Smiley Honey describes chilling its jars "at 57 degrees for a week or so."

That wait matters for price in three ways. You cannot make creamed honey the night before a market. You need a basement, cellar or cool closet that holds near 57 degrees. And jars that are setting are not jars you can sell.

A batch of 24 half-pints, which uses 18 pounds of finished honey, looks like this:

• Day 1, about an hour. Warm the liquid honey gently if it has started to crystallize, stir in the seed until it disappears, and pour the jars.
• Day 1, about 30 minutes. Cap, label and carry the jars to your cool spot.
• Days 2 to 14. Leave them alone. Check a jar at the end of the first week by tipping it; set honey does not move.
• Day 14, about 30 minutes. Wipe the jars, check every lid, and move them to room temperature for sale.

We use 2 hours of work per 24-jar batch in the numbers below. That is our assumption, not a measurement, so time your own first batch and swap in your number. At $20 an hour, 2 hours spread over 24 jars comes to about $1.67 a jar.

The wait also changes how you plan:

• Start holiday batches by early November. A two-week set plus labeling means jars for a December market need to be poured weeks ahead.
• Pour two batches in one afternoon. You set up, warm the honey and clean up once instead of twice, as long as your cool spot has room for 48 jars.
• Do not rush it in a warm kitchen. Honey left in a warm room may set slowly or unevenly, and a jar that feels gritty is hard to sell at $14.

What Does One Jar Earn at $12, $14 and $16?

At $14, a half-pint of creamed honey from your own hives leaves you about $8.71 after supplies, the card fee and your time, against $6.77 at $12. If you buy your honey, the same jar leaves $5.92 at $14 and only $3.98 at $12. That is why $12 is too low for anyone buying their honey.

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Supplies are $2.92 a jar from your own honey and $5.71 from bought honey on a first batch, from the cost table above; on later batches bought honey costs about $5.57, which adds about 14 cents to each bought-honey column. Time is 2 hours per 24 jars at $20 an hour, about $1.67 a jar, our assumption. The card fee is Homegrown's 2.9% plus 30 cents, checked on findhomegrown.com/signup on September 25, 2026. Booth fees and the monthly plan are not included.

Three things stand out:

• Creamed honey earns almost the full premium. If your plain half-pint sells for $12 and creamed sells for $14, the $2 difference costs you only the extra minutes of work and 6 cents of card fee.
• Buying honey makes the low price painful. At $12 with bought honey you keep $3.98 a jar after paying yourself, which leaves little room for a jar that breaks or a slow market.
• Two dollars is about 22 percent more profit. Moving from $14 to $16 on a flavored jar adds $1.94 to what you keep before the cost of the flavoring, since the card fee only rises 6 cents.

Which Jar Sizes Work Best for Creamed Honey?

Sell creamed honey in wide-mouth or short jars in two sizes, a 4-ounce jar at $8 and a half-pint at $14, and add a pint only if customers ask for it. Creamed honey is scooped with a knife or spoon, not squeezed, so a tall bottle or a squeeze bear does not work.

Honey is heavy, and a jar's size is measured in liquid ounces while honey is sold by weight. USDA FoodData Central lists a cup of honey at 339 grams, just under 12 ounces by weight. So a half-pint jar, which holds one cup, carries about 12 ounces of creamed honey, and a 4-ounce jar carries about 6.

The sizes, and who buys them:

• 4-ounce jar, about 6 ounces of honey, $8. Gifts, first-time tasters and kids spending their own money. At $1.33 an ounce it is your highest per-ounce price.
• Half-pint, about 12 ounces, $14. The everyday jar and the one most of your regulars will reorder.
• Pint, about 24 ounces, $24. For families who go through it fast. Cox's Honey sells 24 ounces for $25, so $24 holds up.

Jar shape matters too. Short, wide jars let a customer reach the bottom with a butter knife, and they photograph better on a storefront than a tall narrow jar.

How Much Extra Should Flavored Creamed Honey Cost?

Charge $2 more for a flavored half-pint of creamed honey than a plain one, so $16, and $1 more on a 4-ounce jar, so $9. Those are our picks, not what every farm charges: the honey farms in this guide charge nothing extra for some flavors and $2 to $3 for others, and Savannah Bee charges the same $8 for every 3-ounce flavor as for its original. Cox's Honey sells an 11-ounce chocolate creamed honey for $18 against $16 for plain creamed. Savannah Bee charges $22 for 12 ounces of pumpkin spice whipped honey against $19 for its original.

Not every flavor earns the same bump. Savannah Bee sells its cinnamon, lemon and chocolate whipped honeys at the same $19 as its original, and charges more only for pumpkin spice. A useful way to set your own:

• Spices, $1 to $2 more. Cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice costs you a few cents a jar, so the extra price is for the novelty, not the ingredient.
• Chocolate or vanilla bean, $2 to $3 more. Cocoa and real vanilla cost more, and they read as a treat.
• Seasonal or limited flavors, $3 more. A flavor you only make in November can carry a higher tag because it will not be on the table in March.

If you are also thinking about hot honey, it follows different math: chili adds a heating step, and the jar needs its own price. The sibling guide on what to charge for hot honey works that out at $15 a half-pint.

Adding a flavor can also change which food rules cover your honey, which the next section covers. Check that before you print flavored labels.

Does the Way You Cream It Change Whether You Can Sell It?

In some states, yes: letting your own honey crystallize keeps it under the simple honey rules, while whipping air into it or adding a flavor can require a food license. Two state pages show where the line falls, both loaded September 25, 2026.

What that means for your price:

• Plain creamed honey made by stirring in seed from your own honey, with no whipping machine, stays under Wisconsin's no-license rule, and Texas treats letting your own raw honey crystallize as a farm activity as long as there is no other processing beyond packaging and labeling. The Texas page does not mention seeding, and blending in honey that is no longer raw needs a food manufacturer's license there. Your costs stay the same as plain honey.
• Flavored or air-whipped honey can move you into a license or a cottage food program, which can mean a fee, a sales cap, or selling only inside your state.
• A license fee belongs in your price. If a flavored line needs a license, divide the fee by the flavored jars you expect to sell in a year and add it to each jar. As an example of the math, a $100 fee spread over 50 flavored jars adds $2 a jar.

The full state-by-state picture for honey, including the Ohio and New York rules, is in the guide on whether you can sell homemade honey.

What Do Card Fees Take From a $14 Jar?

Fees take 51 cents to $1.78 from a $14 jar of creamed honey, depending on how your customer pays. A card reader at your table is cheapest per jar. Etsy is the most expensive, before you pay to ship a glass jar.

Here is the full fee stack on one $14 jar, and on a month of 50 jars:

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We checked every fee on each company's own page (findhomegrown.com/signup, Square's fee help page and pricing page, and Etsy's Fees and Payments Policy and Etsy Payments Policy) on September 25, 2026. Card processing is figured on the $14 price; charged on a total that includes tax or shipping it runs a few cents higher, and Etsy's 6.5% also applies to what you charge for shipping. The Square card reader row assumes you already own a reader. Etsy advertising fees are not included.

Ways to keep fees small on a $14 jar:

• Sell two sizes together. The fixed part of a card fee, 15 or 30 cents, is charged once per payment, so a half-pint and a 4-ounce jar on one payment cost you that part once.
• Take cash at the table too. Cash has no fee. Keep a reader for everyone else, because losing a $14 sale costs far more than 51 cents.
• Skip shipping glass unless it pays. A heavy jar in a padded box can cost more to ship than the honey inside, and Etsy's 6.5% applies to the shipping charge as well.

How Do You Sell a Batch Before It Finishes Setting?

Take creamed honey orders the day you pour the batch, so every jar on the cool shelf already has a name on it by the time it sets. The two-week wait is the hard part of pricing creamed honey. If you guess wrong, you either sell out in an hour or carry 15 jars home, and neither helps your price.

Homegrown gives you an online storefront where your regulars order and pay for creamed honey before it is ready. It costs $10 a month billed annually ($12.50 month to month), with no percentage fees beyond standard payment processing of 2.9% plus 30 cents, which you pay and your customer does not. You list the half-pint at $14, the 4-ounce jar at $8 and each flavor as its own product, and customers pick up at your market table, your house or your farm stand. When the order count tells you 30 people want cinnamon and 8 want plain, you pour the next batch to match.

Compare that to the usual ways honey vendors take pre-orders:

• Square's online checkout costs nothing a month but charges 3.3% plus 30 cents per online payment, 76 cents on a $14 jar against Homegrown's 71 cents plus the plan.
• Etsy reaches shoppers in other states, but at $1.78 in fees on a $14 jar plus the cost of shipping glass, it fits honey you mail, not honey your neighbors pick up.
• Texts and Facebook messages cost nothing but your evenings, and a two-week lead time means keeping track of who asked for what for two weeks.

Homegrown does not make your honey, check your state's honey rules or print your labels. Customers create a Homegrown account to place their first order. Your storefront is listed on Homegrown's marketplace, but plan on most orders coming from people you send your link to, like the regulars who already buy your plain honey. There is no timed drop or countdown release. If you want your next creamed honey batch spoken for while it sits on the cool shelf, you can set up a Homegrown storefront for your creamed honey in about 15 minutes.

What Should You Charge Shops for Creamed Honey?

Charge a shop 50 to 60 percent of your retail price, so $7 to $8.40 for a half-pint you sell for $14. The shop marks it back up to $14 on its shelf. From your own honey, $7 leaves you about $4.08 a jar after supplies, and $8.40 leaves about $5.48, before your time.

Wholesale works for creamed honey when:

• You have more honey than market days. A gift shop or coffee shop moves jars in the weeks you are not at a market.
• You can deliver set jars on a schedule. A shop wants 12 jars on the first of the month, which means pouring two weeks before that.
• You use your own honey. With bought honey at $5.57 to $5.71 a jar, a $7 wholesale price leaves you $1.29 to $1.43 before time, which is not worth the drive.

Restaurants and bakeries that want creamed honey for toast or biscuits are a harder sale. They can buy it in bulk tubs: Cox's Honey sells a 5-pound bucket for $38, or 48 cents an ounce, which is far below what a half-pint earns you. Offer a food business a pint jar at your wholesale price instead of trying to match a bucket.

The general rules for setting a shop price, including how to put terms and minimums on a price sheet, are in the guide to wholesale pricing for food products.

How Much Can You Make From Creamed Honey in a Season?

One 24-jar batch of creamed honey at $14 leaves you about $228 after supplies and card fees from your own honey, once two jars go back on the shelf to seed the next batch, and ten batches leave about $2,283. Those 24 jars use 18 pounds of honey that would bring about $44 sold in bulk at $2.45 a pound.

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Supplies at $2.92 per jar of home-harvested honey and Homegrown's card fee of 2.9% plus 30 cents, both checked September 25, 2026. Hours are our 2-hours-per-batch assumption. Each batch pours 24 jars and sells 22, since two go back on the shelf to seed the next batch; supplies are counted on the 22 jars sold, and the honey in the two held-back jars is charged to the next batch as seed. Booth fees and the monthly plan are not included.

Ten batches is 180 pounds of honey. The USDA put 2025 yield at 48.0 pounds per colony, so that is nearly four hives' worth of honey going into creamed jars instead of plain ones. With a few hives and plain honey still on the table, one to four batches is a more realistic target.

A realistic way to grow into it:

• Start with one batch before the holidays. Twenty-four jars is enough to learn how your honey sets and how fast it sells.
• Keep plain honey on the table too. Creamed honey is easier to sell at $14 next to a $12 plain jar, where the $2 difference looks small.
• Add a flavor only after plain sells out. A second flavor splits the same customers unless your market is busy.

What Pricing Mistakes Do New Creamed Honey Vendors Make?

The most common mistake is pricing creamed honey the same as plain, which gives away $1 to $2 on every jar for no reason. The second is going the other way and charging double, which the farm prices in this guide do not support.

Other mistakes to avoid:

• Treating your own honey as free. Honey you could sell by the bucket at $2.45 a pound is a cost. Leave it out and you will price too low.
• Buying seed every batch. One 22-ounce store jar seeds a first batch of about 20 half-pints, or buy two for a full 24. After that, hold back jars of your own, which costs you about 17 cents of honey per half-pint instead of 55.
• Forgetting the two-week wait. A vendor who starts a holiday batch in mid-December sells nothing that season.
• Labeling by jar size instead of weight. A half-pint jar holds about 12 ounces by weight. Weigh jars and label the net weight.
• Undercutting the farm next to you. If another vendor sells creamed honey at your market, price within a dollar of them and compete on flavor and taste.
• Ignoring card fees on small jars. On an $8 jar, the 30-cent part of Homegrown's fee is almost 4 percent by itself. Nudge customers toward two jars per payment.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does creamed honey sell for?

Creamed honey sold for 36 cents to $2.67 an ounce across the stores and farms checked on September 25, 2026. Bulk buckets and grocery jars sit at the bottom, near 50 cents an ounce, and small gift jars at the top. A farm-direct jar of 11 to 12 ounces costs $16 to $25, and a local half-pint at a farmers market fits well at $14.

Is creamed honey more expensive than regular honey?

Usually a little. Cox's Honey charges $1 more for 11 ounces of creamed than of clover honey, and Savannah Bee Company charges $19 for 12 ounces of whipped honey against $18 for 12 ounces of wildflower. That is a premium of about 6 to 7 percent in those jars, and no more than 9 percent in any matching pair of jars from those two farms, not double.

How much should I charge for an 8-ounce jar of creamed honey?

An 8-ounce jar, meaning a half-pint mason jar, holds about 12 ounces of creamed honey by weight. Charge $14 for it plain and $16 flavored. If your jar holds 8 ounces by weight, a price near $9 to $10 keeps you at about the same per-ounce rate.

How much does it cost to make a jar of creamed honey?

A half-pint jar of creamed honey costs about $2.92 in supplies from your own honey, counting the honey at the $2.45 a pound bulk buyers paid in 2025, plus a $1 jar and an 8-cent label. With retail honey and a store jar for seed, the same jar costs about $5.71.

Is selling creamed honey profitable?

Yes, if you already have the honey. At $14 a half-pint from your own hives, you keep about $8.71 a jar after supplies, card fees and $20 an hour for your time. The extra profit over plain honey is small per jar but costs you almost nothing beyond two weeks of cool shelf space.

Why is whipped honey so expensive at some stores?

Small gift jars drive the high per-ounce prices. A 3-ounce jar of whipped honey at $8 works out to $2.67 an ounce because the jar, label and packing cost nearly as much for 3 ounces as for 12. Bought in a 12-ounce jar, the same brand costs $1.58 an ounce.

Related Reading

More on making, pricing and selling honey:

• How to Sell Whipped Honey and Creamed Honey From Home: the seed method, flavors, labels and where creamed honey sells best.
• How to Sell Honey (Without Starting a Business): plain honey jar sizes and prices, and getting to your first market.
• Can You Sell Homemade Honey? Rules, Permits, and How to Start: the honey rules in Wisconsin, Ohio, New York and more, from each state's own page.
• How Much Should You Sell Hot Honey For?: the cost build and price for honey with chili in it.
• How to Price Honey, Jams, and Baked Goods at a Farm Stand: setting prices when honey shares a table with other products.
• Where to Sell Honey: 7 Places That Actually Work: seven places to sell honey and what each one costs you per jar.

Price It Like the Jar Next to It, Plus a Little

Creamed honey is your plain honey with more care and more patience, so price it $1 to $2 above the plain jar and $2 more again for flavors. That keeps you in line with what established honey farms charge, and it keeps the jar within easy reach of the regular who already buys your plain honey.

Your checklist for the first batch:

• Set the prices before you pour. $8 for a 4-ounce jar, $14 for a half-pint, $16 for a flavored half-pint.
• Pour two weeks ahead. Count back 14 days from the market you want the jars for, and find your cool spot first.
• Keep two jars back. Your best jars seed the next batch and save you the 55 cents a jar that store seed costs.
• Check your state's rules. Especially before you add a flavor or use a whipping machine.

Let the order count tell you how much to pour next time. When you are ready for regulars to reserve jars before they set, open your Homegrown storefront and share the link at your next market.