I am Selena Rampolla, the 2023 American Honey Queen. I am from Florida, and I graduated Summa Cum Laude with my bachelor's degree in Psychology from University of South Florida. I enjoy learning about the world and spend my spare time studying topics that fascinate me. I like to travel, SCUBA dive, play 8-ball pool, deep-sea fish, and do nature photography.
Where in America is Queen Selena?
January 25-31 – Wisconsin – Annual Training and school visits
February 9 – Florida – Beekeepers meeting
February 9-10 & 17-18 – Florida – State Fair
February 16 – Florida – Newspaper Interview
March 8-12 – Kentucky – Bluegrass Beekeepers School & community presentations
March 16-19 – Florida – Florida Bee College
April 5-6 – Florida – school presentations
April 11 – Nevada – school presentation
April 14 – Florida – school presentations
April 20 – Florida – school presentations
April 28 – Florida – school presentation
May 4-7 – California – California Honey Festival
May 8-15 – California – Los Angeles County Fair
May 16 – Florida- school presentation
May 17 – Florida – County Board Meeting
May 19 – Florida – school presentation
June 11-18 – Connecticut – Lyman Orchards Strawberry Festival & community presentations
It was a real pleasure meeting you today at the Clark County Fair. We met briefly while you were making a presentation to a group of people at the Bee Barn. I learned quite a few things from you regarding bees and how important they are. I mentioned to you that my grandfather was a bee keeper in the old country. I have a picture of him from the early 1930's standing in his grove of bee hives. I believe that bee keeping was a generational profession as the hives were on the land of my forbears. I think he also tended all the hives throughout the village fields. I visited the village 2 years ago and the hives are still there as well as the ones scattered throughout the fields of wheat and sunflowers. I can only imagine that these hives had been there for hundreds of years. I suspect that I have beekeeping in my genes because of my interest in them even though I've never tended bees. I have a strange attraction to them. Have you ever tasted linden honey? It's the most wonderful honey that you can find in the world. It is found in Ukraine and is the lightest yellow honey you have ever seen. It is almost colorless. Thanks again for the time answering all my questions. Had I not had to leave with my friends, I would have had a hundred more question to ask you about bees. I think your story about becoming the American Honey Queen is fantastic. Your curiosity and passion for the subject is inspiring. Maybe, I hope, I will find the time to start raising bees just as my grandfather once did. Thank You!
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