Local urban farmer featured on ‘Kelly Clarkson Show’
She plans to expand beehives around the Winston-Salem area and set up virtual classes and educational opportunities to let more people know about the benefits of apiaries, collections of beehives.
By Tim Clodfelter
Winston-Salem Journal
July 8, 2020
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Foxx, a former celebrity makeup artist, is the founder of Mother’s Finest Urban Farm, a 2½-acre farm in Winston-Salem that serves the local community. She became interested in urban farming after taking a class at the Cooperative Extension Service, telling the Journal last year that “I really love the freedom. This gives me the flexibility for raising my kids, and it’s something I can do with my family.”
She grows vegetables and herbs, raises chickens, keeps bees, and makes products that are sold at farmer’s markets, including elderberry syrup, fire tonic, handmade soap, tea, and more.
In the episode, Clarkson talked with Foxx and her son and assistant, Kingston, who is 6 years old, by video. Foxx discussed the importance of reconnecting to the earth, healing through the soil and keeping balance. “We’ve been able to build our own beauty,” she tells Clarkson, “And we absolutely, positively think that more people in the world need to have this same attitude, and create their own beauty and sustain their families with growing food and keeping the bees and being stewards to this land.”
