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Promoting equitable employment, pollinator appreciation + awareness, and environmental conservation. https://www.thegreatgive.org/organizations/huneebee-project

08/15/2026

🐝 honey, healing, & an afternoon in support of Huneebee 🐝

join us for Hunee Presents!

this annual celebration and fundraiser brings together the people who believe in creating more equitable opportunities for young people and a healthier environment in New Haven and Bridgeport.

on Sunday, September 27th, we’ll gather at GIOIA (JOY-AH) for an afternoon of honey, connection, and kinship - including a honey-forward cocktail, delicious bites, silent auction, and a guided tasting of five distinct honeys with Marina Marchese of Red Bee ® Honey honey and Carla Marina Marchese

but the evening is about more than honey. it’s about investing in young people with foster care and systems involvement, creating pathways to meaningful work, and using beekeeping and agriculture as tools for healing, connection, and environmental stewardship.

come celebrate what’s possible when young people, community, and the natural world are given room, and the resources, to thrive!

visit huneebeeproject/huneepresents or the link in our bio to learn more & purchase tickets

📆 Sunday, September 27th
⏰ 3 - 5:30 PM
📍 Gioia’s rooftop, New Haven CT
🎟️ tickets are limited

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08/12/2026

calling all BKIR youth alumni and mentors! once a month, we bring Huneebee alumni together for dinner, good conversation, and a chance to connect with the people who get it. we’ll have guest speakers, familiar faces, new people to meet, opportunities to learn about jobs and other resources, and plenty of time to just hang out and catch up.

good food, good people, and a space where you can keep growing. 🚀

register at huneebeeproject.com/events

📅 third Tuesday of every month
⏰ 6-7:30pm
📍 269 Peck Street, New Haven

📷 : Grey Kenna

08/05/2026

shout out to Green Village Initiative CT for their partnership and support this year. we’re also excited to share that our partnership is growing!

did you know that Huneebee has had a Bridgeport apiary at GVI’s Reservoir Community Farm since 2022? what began as a shared space for honey bees has grown into something much bigger - and moving forward Huneebee and GVI are deepening our collaboration with a shared commitment to:

🐝 expand the size of our Bridgeport apiary at Reservoir Farm
🌿 create nature-based therapeutic workshops for community members
🌱 bring beekeeping education and wellness to youth participating in GVI’s summer Youth Leadership Program
🍯 strengthen a shared farm-to-market model, with honey from the Reservoir Farm apiary available for sale at GVI’s Saturday markets.

come experience our apiary and GVI’s Reservoir Community Farm yourself!

SUIT UP & OPEN A BEEHIVE on Saturday, August 22nd

this is a FREE workshop. no beekeeping experience necessary - just curiosity! participants will have the opportunity to learn about honey bee biology and the importance of pollinators. we’ll suit up, open a honey bee hive together, and sample some local honey.

📆 August 22nd
⏰ 11 AM - 12:30 PM
📍 1469 Reservoir Ave, Bridgeport CT
🎟️ FREE

sign up through the link in our bio or at huneebeeproject.com/events

07/31/2026

meet this year’s Farmers Market Interns, alongside Board Chair (and beekeeper, advisor and foreign policy expert, devoted mother… basically an all-around force of nature!) Sophia Lafargue! 🌱🐝💛

as we’ve spent the past year reimagining Huneebee Project’s youth workforce model, one thing has become increasingly clear: entrepreneurship is a powerful pathway to opportunity.

this season, our Farmers Market Interns are getting to experience that pathway firsthand - learning how an idea becomes a product, how a product becomes a business, and how a business can create positive change. from merchandising, marketing, talking with customers, managing inventory, and making sales, they’re gaining real-world experience while helping bring our team’s and our fuzzy bodied honey bees’ hard work to the community.

we’re so proud of these two young entrepreneurs, and thrilled to get to witness them building skills, confidence, and professional experience that they can carry far bee-yond the farmers market!

come say hi on Sundays from 10am - 1pm at the CitySeed Edgewood Park Farmers Market 👏

📷 : Teddy

07/10/2026

all Huneebee honey is raw - straight from hive to harvest, with no heat, no additives, and no outside supply mixed in. and apparently it’s quite delicious!

we are SOLD OUT of 6 and 12 oz honey jars, with a restock coming next week! if we can entice you with the most adorable 2 and 3 oz jars and you’re local, head on over to the Edgewood Park Farmers Market this Sunday between 10am-1pm. they’re perfect for sampling, gifts, and to get us through the next 7 days 🤩

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07/07/2026

youth alumni and friends convened for the first Alumni Dinner & Speaker Series of 2026 in June, and we’re excited to do it again!

July’s dinner will feature speaker Kevin Paulin from . he’ll cover key topics on financial literacy from Winning Way’s Money Talk™ program, including money tracking, saving, debt and credit, and banking options, with time built in for discussion.

if you are a Huneebee youth alum or youth mentor - this evening is for you! register at www.huneebeeproject.com through the events calendar.

📅 July 21, 2026
⏰ 6-7:30pm
📍 269 Peck Street, New Haven

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06/30/2026

if you’ve stopped by our gardens or our farmers market over the years, chances are you’ve met Jim. And if you haven’t, we’d like to change that!

Jim has been a Board member and Huneebee volunteer for years, and he’s the heart behind our flower beds. a true dahlia connoisseur, he spends hours cultivating blooms across our two growing flower sites in New Haven. he spreadsheets and plans, he plants and stakes, he weeds and cuts, and he arranges each bouquet with, in his favorite scenario, unsuspecting recipients in mind. this year, Jim helped us plant nearly 20 varieties of dahlias!

we’re also excited to be back at the Sunday Farmers Market after our first market of the season on June 28! as the summer unfolds, you’ll see more and more of Jim’s flowers making their way to our market stand alongside our local honey and other Huneebee goods.

so if you see Jim in the field or at the market, be sure to say hello. don’t be shy, and ask him about dahlias. you might learn more than you expected. his generosity, knowledge, and steady commitment have helped our gardens grow in size and color, and we’re grateful to have him as part of the Huneebee family.

🌼 see you Sundays. the dahlias are on their way. 🌼

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06/16/2026

insights from Jamie, a BKIR grad, beekeeping apprentice, and, most recently, community beekeeper at Huneebee’s garden in Fair Haven.

BKIR (Beekeepers in Residence) is Huneebee’s signature therapeutic and workforce development program for teens and young adults who are systems impacted. participants learn the art and science of beekeeping while developing meaningful connections, mindfulness strategies, leadership, resilience, and transferable job skills - facilitating healing and preparing them for future successes far beyond the hive.

06/02/2026

visit Huneebee Project at the Edgewood Park farmers market in New Haven this summer! shop our raw local honey, seasonal cut flowers, and other hive-inspired products while supporting meaningful real-world experience for youth and young adults in a supportive, community-centered environment!

📆 Sundays, June 28 - November 22
⏰ 10 AM - 1 PM
📍 Edgewood Park, at the corner of West Rock and Whalley

05/07/2026

huneebee, this is what it’s all about! empowering our most resilient teens and young adults - often coming to us with histories of foster care, systems involvement, and compounding mental health needs - to discover and be appreciated for their invaluable talents and possibilities.

because of you, we’ve raised over $17,500 across nearly 90 donors - and there’s still time to give!!! giving ends tonight at 8pm EST. can we make it to $20,000 across 100+ donors!?!

thanks to all of you for bee-ing a voice, an instigator of ongoing change, and a champion for Huneebee youth past and present! 🔥🐝

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Hamden, CT
06511

Telephone

203-915-8647

Website

http://www.huneebeeproject.com/, http://www.huneebeeproject.com/2026update, https://www.huneebeeproject.com/events/488xm

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