Milestones Icon: Madhava Honey

Madhava Honey began as a concept at the original Rainbow Gathering in Colorado in 1972. Bart Utley, who sold honey from the back of a van in Boulder Canyon, planned to use his honey business to fund a commune. The commune didn’t last, but the honey business did.

Utley was friends with University of Colorado graduate Craig Gerbore, who had a degree in business management.

“Bart met me and said, ‘Here’s the honey and a list of accounts, and here are the keys. Good luck,'” Gerbore recalled. “I found myself alone on a five-acre farm south of Longmont with a honey business…