Lauren Zaira visits with Franca Franzoni at her home and honey laboratory in the hills just outside Florence.
Wearing her white lab coat, Franca was busy scraping wax from the wooden frames, readying them to put into the centrifuge that separates the honey from the wax, before putting the honey in a holding tank for 20 days. In the lab are stacks of colorful bee hives. Franca tells me she decorates them so the bees can recognize them.
What a lovely day! My translator, Anna Mignani picked me up from my rented apartment in Florence and drove me up and through the hills of Florence, passing through the small town of Grassina leading through hillsides filled with olive trees. Passing an old large church, we came upon Franca’s rented home, a simple stone-built home with space for her laboratory.
