Legendary University of Tennessee Football Coach Phillip Fulmer on the importance of honey bees.

by Amy Campbell


S10:E31. 8/5/2023

Legendary University of Tennessee Football Coach Phillip Fulmer raises bees and is my guest on this episode. Coach Fulmer is passionate about raising awareness for honey bees and was generous with his time to record this story in order to advocate for the importance of these bees. He does NOT sell his honey. This is a fun hobby for him. The main message of this show is awareness of pollinators to our survival.

Links: Coach Phillip Fulmer: https://www.phillipfulmer.com/

Blount County Beekeepers Association: https://blountbees.wordpress.com/

Emi sunshine (sing our theme song when she was 9 years old!): https://theemisunshine.com/

Resources of honey, beekeeping, and how to become a beekeeper: https://www.tennesseefarmtable.com/bee-keeping-local-honey

Coach Phillip Fulmer with a jar of his honey. Photo: Amy Campbell 2023.


Mead from Flora De Mel Meadery, Rossville Georgia.

by Amy Campbell


S10:E11. 03/18/2023

Flora De Mel. Meadery, Rossville Georgia.

Today, we are setting the table with Mead. My guest is Jay Martin, Co-Owner of Flora De Mel, a Meadery and full-service restaurant located in Rossville, GA, just over the state line of TN from downtown Chattanooga. Jay is a proponent of urban beekeeping. This business sprang out of his and his business partner and wife Stephanie’s beekeeping. And in this show, Jay will answer the question of …What a demijohn is. In Fred Sauceman’s Potluck Radio Series, he features the last surviving Blue Circle restaurant in Bristol, Tennessee.

Flora De Mel, Meadery https://www.florademel.com/

Fred Sauceman https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman

Emi sunshine (sings our theme song) https://theemisunshine.com/

Jay Martin photographed inside Flora De Mel with dimijohns fermenting with mead. Photo: Amy Campbell, 2021.

Flora De Mel, Rossville, Georgia. Photo: Amy Campbell, 2021.

Jay Martin sits at the bar in Flora De Mel. Bar stools in Flora De Mel made by chair maker Tyler Rogers, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Photo: Amy Campbell, 2021.