- My next guest is a model
for thinking globally while acting locally.
She's a bee keeper and founder
of Mother's Finest Urban Farms,
where she helps inspire and educate her community
to look after the earth.
She's also today's rad human.
(upbeat music)
So let's bring in Samantha Winship
and her little assistant, her son Kingston.
Hey guys, what's up?
- Hey Kelly!
- Oh my gosh, hey Kingston.
- Hey.
- Hey, oh you're so cute.
Well Samantha first of all explain
and tell everybody what Mother's Finest Urban Farm is.
- So Kelly, Mother's Finest Urban Farm is a 2.5 acre farm.
And we raise bees, we have chickens.
We also have worms here.
We grow a lot of produce here.
And we have full retail line.
We have elder berry syrup that we sell.
Fire tonic, honey soaps, infused honey.
And also we provide for our community
at a local farmers market and we like to connect
people with healthy food options
and educate them on wellness
and also help build our local economy.
- Amen.
Especially right now.
That's more important than ever.
And what a great business.
Like and all those things that you make.
That's incredible.
And this is a big shift because before becoming
a master beekeeper you were a makeup artist, right?
- Yes so I was a makeup artist in Chicago.
And I had a big clientele, some celebrities.
And then I ended up taking an urban farm class
and I didn't know what it was gonna be like
because I didn't wanna sweat my edges out, Kelly,
and my lipstick and my makeup be ruined.
And I'm like, I don't know what's gonna happen.
But I went for it and I found out
that I love every single thing about it.
And I ended up moving back to North Carolina
to start a family farm.
- Kingston, I hear you do a lot of the work on the farm.
What do you do?
- So I go in the beehive, I hold frames.
And I teach kids about bees.
- [Kelly] Oh that's so cool.
- [Kingston] And my least favorite job
is cleaning out the chicken coop.
It smells like a public bathroom.
(laughing)
- We have a chicken coop, so I'm with you,
it does not smell great.
It's amazing the stuff you're learning right now.
You don't even know it yet,
but you have a great mama.
And actually Samantha, you have an approach to life
you call, Back To Earth.
What does that mean to you?
- So Back To Earth, the Back To Earth approach
is about reconnecting to the earth.
It's about healing through the soul.
It's about keeping balance.
And it's been so detrimental to keeping us together
as a family and creating our own beauty
we've been able to sustain through all of this.
And we've been able to build our own beauty
and we absolutely positively think
that more people in the world need to have
the same attitude and create their own beauty
and sustain their families with growing food
and keeping the bees and being stewards to this land.
- Yes, we're just borrowing it, it's not ours.
Yup, I agree.
Well we have some good news for you, Samantha.
I know you're hoping to expand your beekeeping operation.
And we reached out to the Bayer Bee Care Program,
which was established to find solutions
to bee health challenges and provide resources
to make a difference in the lives of honey bees,
which are very important.
Monarchs and other pollinators as well.
And they are gonna give you
$5000 to help you expand your business.
- What?
Oh my god!
Kingston, can you believe that?
- $5000.
- $5000!
- He said $5000.
(laughing)
It's amazing what you're doing.
I know at a global scale you're creating
and amazing domino effect,
but at the same time locally you're doing so much
for your local economy and that's really important
and we really wanna support
these family owned and small businesses.
So hey, congratulations on that five grand
and you make something out of it, all right?
- We appreciate it so much.
Thank you so much.
- Yeah of course.
Well thank you Kingston for joining us today.
- You're welcome.
- Okay.