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

09/24/2026

📣 laaaassst call! 📣

we’re down to a final few tickets for this Sunday’s Hunee Presents!

enjoy honey-inspired cocktails and bites, a special tasting featuring five raw honeys from around the country, a conversation with renowned honey expert Marina Marchese, and more - all in support of Huneebee’s youth programs. we’ll celebrate honey, beekeeping, community, and the young people at the heart of Huneebee Project!

we are so grateful to our event sponsors honees_candies, Turbine Asset Holdings Group, United Illuminating, and Regional Water Authority for making Hunee Presents possible and for investing in Huneebee’s young people 💛

thank you to GIOIA (JOY-AH) for providing us with an exquisite setting and delicious snacks for pairing with honey-infused cocktails and honey-from-the-jar!

and we are counting our lucky bee buzzes to have Carla Marina Marchese Marina Marchese of Red Bee ® Honey and American Honey Tasting Society leading such a unique sensory experience and tasting 🍯

🐝 visit the link in our profile or huneebeeproject.com/huneepresents to learn more about Sunday’s Hunee Presents and to purchase tickets 🐝

📷 : Amelia Ingraham

09/15/2026

Hunee Presents is our annual celebration of honey, beekeeping, community, and the young people at the heart of Huneebee Project.

this year, we’re inviting you to sponsor a youth ticket so that a young person from our program can join us for the evening - without cost being a barrier.

your sponsorship gives a young person the chance to:

🐝 gather with the Huneebee community
🍯 taste and learn about honey from beekeepers and honey experts
✨ celebrate the work they’ve accomplished
🤝 connect with people who believe in their future

having a seat at a table like this can mean more than just attending an event. it means being welcomed, celebrated, and reminded “ I, too, belong in these spaces.”

sponsor a youth ticket to Hunee Presents and help us make sure every young person who wants to be there has a place.

🎟️ visit the link in our profile or huneebeeproject.com/huneepresents

September 27 • Hunee Presents
An evening benefiting Huneebee Project

09/09/2026

at Hunee Presents on September 27, we’ll taste our way across the country with an immersive guided honey tasting led by honey educator and author Marina Marchese of Red Bee ® Honey and the American Honey Tasting Society.

from floral and fruity to rich and unexpected, each raw honey captures the unique flowers, landscapes, and seasons where the bees foraged. we’ll taste honeys from Half Mad Honey, They Keep Bees, Hood Honey LLC, and hindu hillbilly H O N E Y.

which one will be your favorite?! 🐝

join us at Gioia for an afternoon of honey, learning, good food, and celebration! and as a special gift, all guests will receive a complimentary signed copy of Marina’s most recent book The World Atlas of Honey.

🎟️ tickets are limited. link in bio.

09/06/2026

who better to explain Huneebee than one of our own? Sanai is a BKIR grad, student at Gateway Community College, aspiring healthcare professional, and one of Huneebee’s first Farmers Market Interns. 🎉

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.

09/01/2026

join us at Huneebee’s new Honey House to celebrate the honey harvest and the bees’ labor in creating the sweet stuff! we’ll extract honey from local hives while discussing the tools, harvesting process, and the incredible work bees our city’s bees.

there will be plenty of time for tasting and gathering with fellow bee enthusiasts, and everyone will leave with their own small jar of honey! 🍯

📆 Saturday, September 19th
⏰ 10 AM - 12 PM
📍 269 Peck Street, New Haven CT
🎟️ FREE; space is limited

visit huneebeeproject.com/events or the link in our bio to register

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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Hamden, CT
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203-915-8647

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http://www.huneebeeproject.com/, http://www.huneebeeproject.com/2026update, https://huneebeeprojectv2.as.me/schedule/6ef

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