ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kim Lehman has worked for more than twenty-five years as a honeybee educator, teacher, professional storyteller, musician, and author. She has presented hundreds of programs and workshops at schools, libraries, museums, nature centers, and festivals.

As part of her children’s column for Bee Culture magazine, Kim began the Bee Buddies club that now has more than 1,300 members in every state and two countries. She also founded the American Beekeeping Federation’s Kids and Bees Program and directed this educational service about honeybees for the public at their annual conferences for seventeen years.

Besides being a hobby beekeeper with an interest in the therapeutic uses of bee products, Kim takes pleasure in gardening, travel adventures, collecting family stories, and creating with clay, metal, tile, found objects, and of course, beeswax. Visit her at www.kimlehman.com or www.beeprograms.com.