Once you’ve extracted your honey, you need to bottle it to sell or share with friends and family. We have your honey bottling supplies covered, from filter kits to bottling tanks, valves, bottles, and lids. We carry bottles in differing sizes, quantities, and capacities, and lids in different colors as well. For larger quantities we also sell buckets and drums.

What are the” Cottage Food Laws”

In 2011, the Florida Legislature enacted HB 7209 (now Section 500.80, Florida Statutes) (http://leg.state.fl.us/statutes/) allowing individuals to manufacture, sell, and store certain types of “cottage foods” (including honey) in an unlicensed kitchen. “Cottage food operations,” as they are called, require no licensing or permitting from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) and are not inspected by any other state government entity.

Here is a link that will spell it out for you .edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in918