1925
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Albert Gibbs keeps bees on the family farm in Dalkeith to supply honey for the family. |
1934
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Albert’s son Michael takes an interest and begins keeping bees and selling honey off the farm and to local stores in the area – eventually building up to 150 colonies. |
1969
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Michael’s son Tim begins working with a commercial beekeeper in Kemptville. Tim starts with 180 colonies. |
1974
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Tim’s brother Peter starts with 50 hives. |
1978
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Tim and Peter join forces to turn Gibbs Honey into a commercial business eventually building up to 1300 colonies. |
2011
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Tim and Peter’s nephew Russell puts 3 colonies on a friend’s rural property outside of Hamilton. Over the next six years he scales up to 30 colonies. Russell starts selling his honey at local farmer’s markets in Hamilton, Burlington and Toronto. |
2017
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Russell and Andrea purchase a farm in Vankleek Hill. |
2018
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Russell and Andrea take over the operation from Tim and Peter. |
