‘Lipstick Queen of Farming’ says ‘This is one of those things that you really have to love’
Mother’s Finest got its start about four years ago, but Winship says farming has always been in her blood.
By Robert Lopez
Journal Now
July 30, 2021
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Samantha Foxx Winship is seeking not just to grow kale, okra, and garlic on her 2½-acre farm near Walkertown.
She sees what she’s doing as an educational endeavor and wants to teach people where their food comes from, to teach others about food preservation, to teach up-and-coming Black farmers how to generate bountiful harvests.
“If you can feed yourself and your family, that goes a long way,” she says. “And I feel no traditional classroom can teach you that type of thing, even though it’s one of the most important life skills. Farming provides a lot of character-building skills, not just how to feed yourself, but also how to run a business. And everyone should have access to quality food. It’s not a social status thing or a color thing. Having the ability to grow your food, that’s a powerful thing.”
Winship, aka the Lipstick Queen of Farming, is founder of Mother’s Finest Family Urban Farms. Alongside her husband and kids, she raises a variety of crops on a plot of land populated also by chickens, goats, ducks and bees.
Under the Mother’s Finest label, she makes a line of products that include Scotch Bonnet honey, whipped shea honey butter, elderberry syrup and honey soap. And she is organizing the Aug. 14 Bee Younited Festival, which will feature live music, food trucks and “Goatpolooza” games.
