Smile

What makes Amelia Cripe smile? “The ever-changing seasons of life,” said the 25-year-old, a Noblesville resident. She is found every summer selling honey and pollen at the Noblesville Farmers Market on Saturday mornings at Federal Hill Commons. “We may not know what each day brings but in the honey beesiness, we know that if we work hard and tend to our bees and understand their language, we’re able to keep our bees and harvest the beeautiful liquid gold nature has to offer us which aligns perfectly with our systems.” She said, “I’ve been beekeeping since I was 11 years old, and I do it with my father, just him and I.” Their business, Eagle Creek Apiary, based in Sheridan, packages the honey “seasonally to help with allergies. We’ll always have a spring, summer and fall, that way people who are suffering can get honey from that time period … Because it’s all raw we don’t heat or filter.” She said, “I’m blessed to continue to keep bees with my father and grow our family business while pursuing my other passions of health and coaching and medicinal herbalism as well … If we understand the value of that which nature has to offer us, we can heal.” Eagle Creek Apiary is at Noblesville Farmers Market 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays and also sells honey at Westfield and Carmel markets and also Broad Ripple and Whitestown. She said, “Eagle Creek Apiary is here to provide our local communities with truly local, seasonal and raw honey to aid in allergies and feed your system what it needs.” Amelia always wears her beekeeping veil around her bees. “I don’t want to get stung in the face.” What else? “I love to travel. Nature is my thing. I grew up on the farm. So doing this with my father was really bonding for us. It’s turned into a lifelong passion. It’s really branched me off into so many other avenues that I credit to this business and the bees.”