Category Archives: Community

Inspiring Stories: Savannah of Huneebee Project

Huneebee Project is a venture based in New Haven, CT that provides transferable job skills training and employment opportunities to youth ages 15-23 with past or present child protective or foster care involvement. Youth are trained in beekeeping – they install and maintain beehives in community gardens within under-resourced neighborhoods – and power an online marketplace. Huneebee Project seeks to […]

How To Incorporate IPM (Integrated Pest Management) in your Garden or Beekeeping Practice

If I walked up to a hive the same way I walked into a greenhouse when I was an IPM specialist for an ornamental horticulture company, I’d be expecting to have to look a lot harder for bugs. I’d walk between the rows of plants—or frames of bees—finding, identifying and noting down any insects, diseases […]

Inspiring Stories: Hives for Heroes

Hives for Heroes is a national military veteran non-profit organization focusing on honey bee conservation, suicide prevention, and a healthy transition from service. Through the national network of beekeepers and veterans we provide purpose, education, and healthy relationships fostering a lifelong hobby in beekeeping. NewBEE veterans and Mentors enjoy the therapeutic process of beekeeping and […]