Pennsylvania Beekeepers

Pennsylvania State
Beekeepers Association

Going powerful since 1904

Every year a Honey Queen is chosen to be the key promoter of Pennsylvania's beekeeping business. The Honey Queen journeys through the entire state speaking at schools, fairs, festivals, beekeeping group meetings, etc. She participates in news interviews and it is constantly ready to promote the beekeeping and honey sectors. The primary focus of the Honey Queen system is education; please ask the woman to give a presentation at your occasion. The Honey Queen in addition presents Pennsylvania each year during the United states Honey Queen competition, held during the American Beekeeping Federation Convention.

2017 PA Honey Queen and Princess revealed

Kayla Fusselman - 2017 PA Honey Queen
Samantha Stouffer - 2017 Honey Princess

Kayla Fusselman had been plumped for to represent PSBA while the 2017 PA Honey Queen, and Samantha Stouffer picked as 2017 PA Honey Princess. Winning prospects had been crowned within annual meeting banquet, on November 11th. Congratulations to both!

2016 PA Honey Queen

Sarah McTish - 2016 PA Honey Queen

The Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Association is happy to announce that Sarah McTish was selected while the 2016 Pennsylvania Honey Queen throughout the organization’s annual conference.

Sarah, 19, could be the child of James and Mary McTish of Mohnton, Pa. She's a graduate of Twin Valley highschool and it is presently a junior at Penn State University, with an Agriculture Sciences major and an Entomology small. Sarah is active using horticulture club, is an investigation associate when you look at the entomology laboratory and is a part of Delta Theta Sigma agriculture fraternity.

Honey Queen vists OABEST Expo

Octorara region class District held its Agriculture, Business, ecological Science and Technology Expo on Summer 4th and our Honey Queen ended up being here! View much more photographs at Honey Queen Facebook page and also at the Department of Agriculture's picture album at Flickr.

PA Honey Queen Report

Hi every person,

September is a fantastic month filled with fairs and festivals. We began the thirty days during the Big Knob Grange Fair. Here, I enjoyed meeting and catching with beekeepers, and dealing with bees with people going to the fair. The best an element of the fair ended up being standing as you're watching observance hive responding to questions about bees. It was extremely enjoyable to see other people getting excited to learn anything brand new about honey bees and beekeeping.

Gratz Fair

Honey Festival

Towards the end of this month, we went to the Gratz Fair and a Honey Festival in Pottstown, PA. At the Gratz Fair, I experienced the satisfaction of assisting regional beekeepers within their on-stage honey extraction demonstration. Those in attendance requested great concerns while the kiddies enjoyed utilizing the extractor. Within Honey Festival listed here time, kiddies made honey bee headbands and discovered why bees are very important for them.