I'm gonna miss these kids..
The other day we went to Jack Tapp's house. He owns the honey company 'busy bee'. The honey is purchased by buyers around the globe including Thailand, China, Canada, the Bahamas, and of course right here in the lovely usa. They had many types of honey, but I think my favorite was the wildflower honey. They were all delicious though. Considering I'm deathly scared of bees, especially honey bees, I think I did quite well, you can see how close I got to the hives from the pictures I took, no zoom involved.
if you ever want some good honey, which I would highly recommend, as honey is delicious on everything from french toast, to regular toast, to biscuits, to tea, I would recommend busy bee honey, the most fresh and delicious honey in the area. You can buy busy bee honey at weaver street market, and you can also check out their website:
http://www.busybeeofnc.com/
after we checked out the hives, Jack Tapp, his daughter in law, and granddaughter got us the treat of getting to go to the place where busy bee honey is packaged and shipped off, which was amazingly cool. The place we went to was called JFAP. I believe I heard it referred to as a early business incubator, which makes a lot of sense. When businesses are starting out, they can go to JFAP and rent space and use their utilities, which can save a ton of costs. JFAP was only culinary businesses, and I actually saw a few places that I recognized that rent space there which was pretty cool. For example baguettaboutit and luna pops. Baguettabout it is a really cool food truck that I've seen in front of harris teeter in Carrboro, I keep meaning to try it, I'll get around to it eventually. But apparantly they make and package their food at JFAP and then put it in the truck to travel around with. Also Luna Pops, a local popsicle brand, they use only locally found ingredients and their popsicles are delicious, we got to try a free one while we were there. I tried a cookies n cream one. mmm.
This machine below is pretty cool, it can freeze the luna pops in 15 minutes. wow!
In the picture below, the man sitting on the plastic bucket is filling up jars with honey, the honey comes out of a spout in intervals of just the right amount so that they don't waste any. After he finished each jar he would hand it to the man next to him who would put a lid on it and finish packing it up.
Below is one of the luna pop freezers, you can rent freezer or fridge space, or an entire freezer or fridge.
This is really cool, I had no idea this kind of entity - the renting thing - existed. You could do a start-up so easily! Why, oh why, do you have to go to school so much! It takes up so much of your time! But, then again, it's pretty useful (as you have emphatically told me) to know certain dates of historical import, and that certain geometrical shapes have some sort of equations that mean something such that you must have them memorized. :)
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