Aired: July 5, 2017
Host Sister Kathy is joined by Kristen Smith from the Wrigley Taproom, Matt Corbin from The Blue Raven and a few Pikeville Farmers Market Vendors to talk about “Cooking Up Local Food”.
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to Chef William.
were just being installed” said Suzanne.
called me and asked what we had for sale, then he went down the list of what he wanted and how much. He knew what he was looking for” John [Rehmeyer] told me.
t has told us what chefs are looking for when it comes to fresh food”.
Margaret Reid from Reid’s Apiary in Ohio told us all about the importance of queen bees, I also sat in on part of a session on urban agriculture before I had to leave for a while to check on a friend’s farm that had been flooded by all those buckets of rain. I returned in time for a famous Kentucky State Lodge buffet complete with banana pudding. During lunch I got to watch my friend Wayne make a little girl’s day by gifting her with a bee-keepers jacket complete with hat and netting. I wish you could have seen the smile on her face. It was priceless. The event was pretty enjoyable.
t the bottom”, Joni told me, “but that gets pretty hot when you let it loose. Plus, it leaves a pretty good sized hole where it vents. I’d really like a steam whistle on the vent pipe. That would be cool.” The high temperature and sustained pressure cleans wax and debris off the hive pieces, killing mites, insects and bacteria and the wax collects in the bottom. “We can test the wax to see what pathogens were on the hives. That’s all part of the research the university is doing on bees. It is very helpful when the beekeeper tells us what they believe the problem is so we know what to look for” says Joni.
eir clubs. Then the unit could go from one group to the next. “Depending on hive sizes, the sterilizer can hold about 20 hives. Wooden hives only though, the plastic ones warp in the heat” says Joni.
