Well too start with,
read this! There's a lot too it, but it's worth the effort. Hell, even the recipe in chapter 6 i.e. Joe's Ancient Orange, is worth making. Just use a gallon of store bought spring water, take half out, mix up the other ingredients, then top it up to 3/4's full with some of the water removed, change the cap for a balloon with some pin holes in it and off you go.
Just keep the recipe as close to the original as possible, and then after 3 weeks or so, top it up to about an inch below the neck of the fermenter/water bottle, then wait for the fruit to drop to the bottom. It'll take about 3 months or so.
Once that's happened, you can drink it, but if you follow the guidance on "racking" you'll be able to siphon off the cleared brew gently, into bottles and stopper them and keep it for 6 months and it's even better.
Your existing batch ? Just keep it in the fridge, but loosen the cap once a week or so to make sure that any build up of pressure is released. Then just leave it alone until the sediment drops down to the bottom of the bottle. Which it will do, though it may take some time.
Also, any slight alcohol hot sort of taste that can be found in young meads will mellow. Just don't expect it to drop out in a few days.
Meads can be quite easy to make, but there's nothing quick about them.
The honey from the local bloke is likely to be better than the stuff from wherever it was that you bought it. Especially if it's raw and completely unprocessed. If it did have any wax or even bits of dead bee in it, those will either come out at racking time or float and be able to be spooned out (if you can get a spoon into the top of the fermenter). Raw, unprocessed honey, especially if there's no single type of plant grown in bulk locally, which would possibly give it a "varietal character", just means it'd be considered "wild flower" honey.
People bang on about varietals, but the only reason why they tend to be available is that it's general practice with US farming techniques, to have massive areas of a single crop type - think oranges and Florida, so that they move the hives around on trucks/trains at certain times to get bee pollination of a given crop, and bingo, varietal honey. Naturally, honey would be of a mixed plant nectar type, so if the local bloke just has his hives among a variety of different crops/plant sources, it'll likely just be wild flower type and if it tastes good then go for it.