Edacious - Food Talk For Gluttons

Bee Work. Welcome to Episode 44 where we meet Bee Charmer and Farmer Amanda Welch of Grubby Girl. Amanda has been a fixture at the Charlottesville City Market for years, selling her all-natural soaps, bath products, and granola, all produced with honey harvested at Meeting House Farm. I've loved her Farmer Person soap for a while. So nice and gentle with a honeysuckle scent that wafts about you without the threat of the plant taking over your entire garden. I could use her Cucumber Mint right now with this heat! So it was a thrill to finally sit down and talk about the triumphs and challenges of running an apiary. I first met Amanda when I took her bee class at the Jefferson School where I learned there's more to running an apiary than meets the eye. It is not a lovely, pastoral Martha Stewart project. This is real farming. To be successful you've got to have some knowledge of working with livestock, picking up on non-verbal cues to prevent the variety of diseases and issues facing our bee population. It's a