Selling Honey in Alabama
The passages below are all that I can find about selling honey in Alabama. It does not meet the definition of a cottage food (see this page), the Alabama laws are simply silent about it. It would be wise to:
1. sell only pure honey
2.Label it as described on this page, in other words, label it as if it were a cottage food.
There are over 600 Registered Beekeepers in the State of Alabama. Estimates from previous lists of registered beekeepers show the actual number of beekeepers in the state was once as high as 1,700.
Alabama honey laws
ALA CODE § 2-11-121 : Alabama Code - Section 2-11-121: LABELING REQUIREMENTS:(a) No person shall sell, keep for sale, expose or offer for sale, any article or product in imitation or semblance of honey branded as "honey," "liquid or extracted honey," "strained honey" or "pure honey" which is not pure honey, nor may the label of any such article or product in imitation or semblance of honey, depict thereon a picture or drawing of a bee, beehive or honeycomb. (b) No person, firm, association, company or corporation shall manufacture, sell, expose or offer for sale, any compound or mixture branded or labeled as honey which shall be made up of honey mixed with any other substance or ingredient. (c) Whenever honey is mixed with any other substance or ingredient and the commodity is to be marketed, there shall be printed on the package containing such compound or mixture a statement giving the ingredients of which it is made; if honey is one of such ingredients it shall be so stated in the same size type as are the other ingredients, but it shall not be sold, exposed for sale, or offered for sale as honey; nor shall such compound or mixture be branded or labeled with the word "honey" in any form other than as herein provided; nor shall any product in semblance of honey, whether a mixture or not, be sold, exposed or offered for sale as honey, or branded or labeled with the word "honey," unless such article is pure honey. (Acts 1981, No. 81-373, p. 549, §2.) See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/alcode/2/11/6/2-11-121#sthash.UtpuRYsQ.dpuf
Resources
Great helpful books and guides
The Backyard Beekeeper - Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden, Setting up and caring for your own colonies,practical and nontoxic ways to care for your bees, Swarm control
The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Harvesting, and Cooking with Natural Honeys
Beekeeping For Dummies, very popular
The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook by Kim Flottum