Vermont HoneyLights is a family-owned business located in the scenic hills of Bristol, Vermont. With delicate craftmanship, the four owners continue the long-time tradition of designing and producing high quality candles from beeswax. Each person who steps through the gift shop and studio doors can see one of the artists creating a unique hand-rolled or poured candle. They can witness the piece taking shape into a sculptured and decorative beeswax candle.

Our Store (located at 9 Main Street in Bristol, Vermont)

Along with the beeswax candles, Vermont HoneyLights retail shop also features custom pieces designed and made here, including table linens, footstools & bags. Depending on the time of year the variation changes but all are wonderful additions. A wide selection of functional antiques and vintage pieces are available along with visual inspiration on how to incorporate them into your home.

This concept of using beeswax and shaping it into unique and interesting designs began about seven years ago. During that time, through trial and error, we developed our own mold making process. We now design and modify recognizable shapes, create the mold, and the most challenging part, release the candle.

Each of the artists that cooperatively own Vermont HoneyLights, Inc. bring their varied backgrounds in fine woodworking, visual merchandising, pewter production, quilt making, textile design and business management to allow a synergistic approach to creating and selling our work.

We strive to create the benchmark for beeswax candles. Only the highest quality of beeswax and 100 percent cotton wicks are used. This philosophy is continued in our retail store, where only American-made products are sold. We are proud of our work and our business is based on these same high standards of quality and exceptional customer service.

About our Beekeepers

George Paulovicks began beekeeping about 1959 as a 4-H project in Wheeling, West Virginia by receiving a hive of bees as a gift from a neighbor who had become allergic to bee stings. He soon moved the hive to his grandmother's farm in West Liberty, West Virginia, and then bought 5 more hives from another beekeeper.

Thus began Locust Grove Apiaries, named because of a grove of locust trees located on his grandmother's farm, Brookview Farm. After growing his beekeeping business and marrying, George and his wife, Jane, began refining beewax by melting it and pumping it through a filter press in order to clean it and remove the brown and yellow stains that accumulate when the bees store honey and pollen in their honeycomb. When the wax is very clean, it burns in candles with no sputtering or smoking.

The Paulovicks have provided their beeswax to candlemakers and herbal salve makers since 1989. Demand has long since exceeded what they collect from their own hives and they have supplemented production by buying wax from their beekeeping friends in New York, Florida and a few states in between.