Meet Our Queens
2011 Honey Queen, Caroline Adams
2011 Collin County Honey Queen, Caroline Adams is the daughter of Ned and Caryl Adams. She is a senior in high school and has been homeschooled along with her brother and sister. Caroline became involved in beekeeping after her sister received a youth scholarship from the Collin County Hobby Beekeepers Association. She and her family currently keep four beehives in Parker, TX. Along with beekeeping, Caroline enjoys playing classical and traditional Irish music on her violin and mandolin, teaching violin lessons to children, volunteering at a local nature museum, cooking, sewing, and spending time with her family.
2011 Honey Princesses, Shelby Kilpatrick and Shannon LaGrave
2011 Honey Princess, Shelby Kilpatrick is the seventeen-year-old daughter of Scott and Susan Kilpatrick. She is a junior in high school and is homeschooled along with her two younger sisters. She began beekeeping in 2007 when she received a Youth Beekeeping Scholarship from the Collin County Hobby Beekeepers Association. Since then, beekeeping has become a family project. In addition to beekeeping, Shelby is an active Denton County 4-H member participating in many project areas including entomology, wildlife habitat evaluation, horticulture, citizenship, leadership and community service. At home she enjoys reading, cooking, beekeeping, working on 4-H projects and spending time with her family.
2011 Honey Princess, Shannon LaGrave was accepted into the youth scholarship program to study the art of beekeeping in 2007. Her first introduction to beekeeping was in 2005 she was welcomed into a beekeepers home for an educational event that included an observation hive, honey tasting, trying on the beekeeper’s suit and other activities. She lives in Farmersville, TX with her parents and four sisters. Her hobbies include raising goats and other small farm animals, cooking, gardening, ballet and history. She has five active hives and finds the time spent with the bees to be very satisfying.