We Have a Winner of our Bee-Come a Backyard Beekeeper Giveaway!

Emily and Colin McClelland of Alabama are very excited to have won this sweet prize! They are buying farmland this year and had planned to keep honey bees on their new farm. Emily is looking forward to benefits the bees will have on their garden.

The winner of this giveaway was selected randomly. We are so pleased to be able to award this prize to the McClellands and help them in their adventurous new endeavor.

Emily and Colin, we wish you the best of luck, good health (for you and your bees), and prosperity!

Their Prize Package Includes:
A Complete Bee Library (10 books): A Short History of the Honey Bee; Attracting Native Pollinators; Beekeeping; Bees, Wasps, and Ants; Build Your Own Beekeeping Equipment; Hive Management; Homegrown Honey Bees; The Honey Connoisseur; Keeping Bees in Towns and Cities; and Storey’s Guide to Keeping Honey Bees.

Beginner Beekeeping Kit: This kit from GloryBee® Foods includes the following: First Lessons in Beekeeping book, single-story hive complete with top and bottom, frames, foundation, nails, instructions, standard hive tool, smoker, entrance reducer, plastic inside feeder, bee hat, veil, metal top, inner cover, and leather gloves.

GloryBee® Foods has generously donated the beekeeping kit to the prize package. We appreciate their sponsorship and encourage you to visit their website and check out all their great beekeeping supplies.

This giveaway was hosted by Storey Publishing on The Short Storey for June: Backyard and on Storey’s Fresh Picks.

Love honey? 

Check out our upcoming book, The Fresh Honey Cookbook.