A Time Capsule in a Jar

Photos by Marianne Rothbauer.
Andrea Glenn and Russell Gibbs, top right, the husbandand-wife team behind Gibbs Honey stand in front of a new, purpose-built honey house that stands proudly to the side of the majestic barn. It is here that raw honey becomes liquid gold.
Huge stainless-steel tanks wait to welcome the first harvest, sometime in early July. They will fill the 7,500-pound tank many times during the season, producing between 30,000 and 50,000 pounds of honey.
Gibbs candles are made only from the wax cappings — the tiny bits of wax that bees make to seal off a honey-filled hexagonal cell.
The cappings are then highly refined so that they are clean, producing rich, smooth, dark yellow candles, both dipped and molded, that smell strongly of honey.