Click here to check out YYC Beeswax’s Sustainability Profile.Connect with YYC Beeswax on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.Want Lisa involved with your school band’s next fundraiser? Click here. Click here to buy YYC Beeswax products and kits online. These natural candles are hand-poured by our in-house candle experts Tamara and Nada, into a foxandflower local.You can find YYC Beeswax at various markets through this summer, such as the Millarville Farmer’s Market and Calgary Stampede Maker’s Market.“The bees have taught me so much,” she says. Lisa hopes to expand and evolve YYC Beeswax out of her home office and into a showroom – where she hopes to create a space for schools and families to learn about bees. “I know firsthand that music programs in schools don’t always get the funding they need, and I wanted to be able to support the arts myself.” She’s played the flute since she was in junior high – when her tiny country school got its first “real band teacher.” Lisa’s gone on to teach music in Calgary schools and private lessons since and facilitates fundraisers for school band programs through YYC Beeswax, providing lip balms for students to sell. She also sells various kits to teach people how to make their own candles.īesides bees, Lisa’s other passion is music. For example, Lisa created solid lotion bars to combat liquid restrictions in air travel, and beeswax food wraps to replace plastic wrap. 06 Storm / Pom Pom Squad Ow I, like most reasonable people, love soy candles. When formulating new products, Lisa looks at how her bees can help her solve a given problem. Posted: 23rd March, 2021 by The Editor Wax Poetic is Eric Bennett’s bimonthly column where they suggest pairings of various scented candles with a great album or EP. “I try to make all my products as practical as they are beautiful.” “I grew up in a very practical household, having been on a farm,” she says. The fascination with wax products only snowballed from there. It started on a whim when Lisa learned how to make candles from rolled wax sheets from a workshop at University of Calgary’s Women’s Resource Centre, a tradition since the late 80’s in remembrance of the Ecole Polytechnique shooting. Her business – YYC Beeswax – has been her creative outlet for the past three years, raising bees and harvesting their honey and wax to make candles, beauty, and home products. Despite living in Calgary for her adult life, Lisa Graham has always been in touch with her small-town Alberta roots.
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