Mad About Mead: Nectar of the Gods
Pamela Spence holds a degree in English with a minor in philosophy from the Pontifical College Josephinium, Columbus, Ohio. Course work in commercial beekeeping at Ohio State University, however led to a chronic bout with "bee fever," an obsessive passion about honeybees for which there is no known or desired cure. In 1986, she founded the American Mead Association (AMA) to stimulate interest in an alternative market for honey. The association, through its publications, the Meadmaker's Journal and Mead Letters, served as a clearinghouse of information for amateur and commercial meadmakers worldwide.<br><br>Spence has contributed articles on beekeeping and meadmaking to the Llewellyn Organic Gardening Almanac and various beekeeping and wine trade publications. During her tenure as AMA director, she conducted numerous workshops, lectures, tastings, and mead judgins. In addition to her mead activities, she is also a poet and storyteller, and currently lives on the banks of a creek in Central Ohio with her husband and their family of children, dogs, and bees.<br>