Cold-extracted clover honey and raw hive apothecary goods.

Wind River sweet clover honey is our flagship single-origin varietal. Sourced from sub-irrigated valley floor meadows along the Upper Wind River between July 10 and August 15, the bees forage primarily on white sweet clover (Melilotus albus) and yellow sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis). The high altitude and cool mountain nights slow nectar secretion, concentrating floral invertase and delicate vanillin esters.

We spin the cedar supers in an unheated stainless radial extractor. The honey leaves the combs at room temperature and passes through a surgical 400-micron mesh sieve. We reject diatomaceous earth filtering and high-pressure heating pads. The finished honey retains its natural microscopic pollen grains, enzymes, and micro-bubbles, yielding a water-white to extra-light amber clarity.

Laboratory refractometer testing verifies moisture levels strictly between 16.4% and 17.2%, guaranteeing clean room-temperature shelf stability without pasteurisation. Jars are sealed immediately in 6 oz and 12 oz heavy flint glass with airtight tin caps.

Cut comb honey represents the purest possible presentation of hive goods. Our comb honey is produced in dedicated shallow cedar supers fitted with ultrathin, unbleached beeswax starter foundation. During the late summer alpine bloom, honeybees draw pure virgin hexagonal cells, filling each chamber with dense nectar from wild alfalfa, mountain lupine, and yellow rabbitbrush.

Once the bees cap the cells with snow-white wax, we transfer the frames to our Dubois workshop. Apiary specialists slice the combs by hand using a stainless steel honey comb cutter without heat. The comb is cut into rectangular 10–12 oz blocks, drained briefly on stainless racks to shed superficial cell drip, and seated into rigid, transparent food-grade presentation containers.

Eating cut comb honey provides the full botanical spectrum: raw liquid honey, delicate beeswax cappings that chew like natural gum, and concentrated pockets of fermented bee bread pollen. Because it is never extracted through pipes or pumps, it touches nothing but the bees and the stainless cutting blade.

Worker bees returning to the hive carry multi-coloured pollen pellets gathered from mountain wildflowers across the Absaroka foothills. We install bottom-mounted stainless pollen traps for forty-eight hours at a time, collecting fresh granules without depriving the colonies of essential protein stores. The raw pellets are immediately sorted by hand to eliminate stray leaf specks or hive debris.

To preserve delicate heat-sensitive bio-flavonoids, rutin, and raw amino acids, we dry our bee pollen in a dedicated dehumidified chamber kept strictly below 85°F. Industrial packers bake pollen at 130°F, caramelising sugars and denaturing active protein enzymes. Our dried pollen granules retain their crisp texture, earthy floral bouquet, and vibrant golden, crimson, and ochre hues. Available in 3 oz and 6 oz glass apothecary jars from $9 to $16.

Our high-concentrate propolis extract is produced from raw hive propolis resin scraped from hive inner covers. We macerate the crude resin at a 1:5 ratio in certified organic grape spirit for sixty days in complete darkness, shaking the glass demijohns daily. The tincture is cold-filtered through paper to eliminate wax solids, resulting in a dark amber extract containing over 20% bio-active phenolic resin, bottled in 1 fl oz amber dropper bottles for $18.

Beeswax is produced exclusively by worker bees from eight abdominal wax glands. To create one pound of wax, bees consume approximately eight pounds of honey. During our summer extraction, we collect the fresh wax cappings sliced from honeycombs. We place these cappings inside an outdoor solar wax melter on our Dubois workshop deck.

The solar rays gently melt the cappings at natural temperature without scorching or bleaching. We run the golden liquid wax through natural cotton filters, removing fine debris while retaining the honeyed fragrance and natural yellow pigments derived from wildflower pollen oil. We never add paraffin, synthetic stearic acid, or chemical bleaches.

We cast the rendered wax into 4 oz craft blocks for woodworking, leather waterproofing, and apothecary balms, and hand-pour classic 8-inch table tapers fitted with braided unbleached square cotton wicks. Pure beeswax tapers burn cleanly with virtually zero soot, releasing negative ions and a subtle honey aroma. Pricing starts at $10 per twin taper pair or 4 oz wax block.