I've sometimes thought of making bayberry candles. But then I came to my senses. Bayberry is abundant in our seaside dunes. In colonial times, when candles were needed for illumination, families would come to the shore in the fall to set up candle making camp for a couple of weeks. They picked bushels of the berries and boiled them in huge vats for many hours to extract the wax. It takes about 15 lbs of berries to make one pound of wax. Any takers? I'll show you where they grow. What fun!