Fair volunteers can sell their own honey this year

[Robert L Mathews]

Hey folks! Didn't volunteer for the county fair yet? How about if you could sell some honey while you're there?

I talked to Jenn, the very nice person who runs the agriculture department booths, and I was mentioning how members used to sell honey at the fair, but fair management got uptight about it after Covid and told us we couldn't sell "food" (unless we signed up as a multi-thousand-dollar food vendor like the bacon-wrapped hotdog people).

Good news! Jenn (being a completely reasonable person) thought that was dumb and gave us permission to sell honey (or other artisanal hive products like soap, lip balm, etc.) from our booth at the fair again this year. You can bring your own honey to sell while you're volunteering in the booth, and you'll have a captive audience. "Can I buy honey here?" is one of the most common questions we get.

Some rules if you sell honey:

• You need to bring your own signs, handle your own payment collection, and so on; the club isn't involved in that.
• You can charge what you want, but it would be nice if you made a donation to the club of at least 10% of your sales (the fair charges a flat fee plus 10% of gross sales if you rent a booth from them).
• Each jar must be labeled as "do not feed to infants under one year" or equivalent. If you don't have it labeled like that, there will be rolls of 100 of those stickers in the booth you can buy for $5.00.
• No honey tasting, unfortunately. It's against the health department rules and the waste would attract bees.
• Don't be aggressive about selling. The focus of the booth is the club and education. Being able to buy honey is just a nice extra thing for people who are interested.
• You probably need to drop off your honey at the booth on a day before the fair opens on Friday, or some other coordinated time when the fair is closed, because otherwise I suspect the security people won't let you bring it in. They're very picky about glass.

In addition to signing up to volunteer, please reply to me privately at webm...@alamedabees.org if you plan to sell honey so I can help you coordinate bringing it. Thanks!

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Robert L Mathews

[Robin Chatham]

Yippee

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