{"id":149071,"date":"2023-06-01T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/?p=149071"},"modified":"2024-07-30T11:50:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:50:02","slug":"teens-beekeeping-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2023\/06\/teens-beekeeping-program\/","title":{"rendered":"For These Teens, a Unique Beekeeping Program Teaches About Much More Than Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spending 15 weeks surrounded by bees wasn&#8217;t Maria Roman&#8217;s plan for the summer. The New Haven, Connecticut-based teenager was going through a lot when a family friend suggested she participate in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huneebeeproject.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Huneebee Project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a beekeeper-in-residence program that offers young people the chance to interact with bees while learning essential life skills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roman had recently entered the foster care system and found herself drifting away from things she once loved, such as spending time outside. She recalls thinking, &#8220;You seriously want me to be around bees? Definitely not.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With no prior pollinator experience, Roman was apprehensive. &#8220;I knew they stung and to get away from them if they&#8217;re close to you.&#8221; But by her fifth week in the program, Roman had warmed up to the bees, finding them therapeutic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The sound of the bees is really relaxing,&#8221; says Roman. &#8220;It&#8217;s calming.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149088\" style=\"width: 346px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-149088 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-005-2-346x346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-005-2-346x346.jpg 346w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-005-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-005-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-005-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-005-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-005-2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-005-2-1000x1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-005-2-scaled.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New students don&#8217;t get into a bee suit for weeks. First, they work on social and emotional skills. (<\/span>Photo: Grey Kenna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Started by clinical social worker Sarah Taylor in 2018, the Huneebee Project is a therapeutic job skills training program that has graduated 25 cohorts, including Roman, from the 15-week program over the past five years. It\u2019s also installed roughly 30 honey bee colonies across seven sites in the greater New Haven area, planted pollinator-friendly garden plots and launched an online marketplace that sells honey made from the hives, candles and a curated selection of other artisan products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants range in age from 15 to 23, and the project prioritizes enrolling children and young adults with past or present child protective and foster care involvement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taylor had long dreamed of creating a nonprofit for youth who are aging out of the foster care system. But it wasn\u2019t until she took time for herself that she realized the therapeutic potential of beekeeping. Burnt out and disheartened with the foster care and child protective services systems, Taylor started keeping her own bees while working and attending a fellowship program in New Haven.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;After a day of work, the only place I wanted to be was with my bees,&#8221; says Taylor. &#8220;It became a meditative practice for me. They&#8217;re their own form of therapy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Huneebee Project became Taylor&#8217;s opportunity to combine her love of beekeeping with her professional background.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The students are responsible for about 30 hives, although they are working on expanding to 50 hives by the end of summer 2023 across seven official garden sites in New Haven neighborhoods where the youth live. They also now have community hive checks where locals can join in checking on and learning about bees. It&#8217;s one more place to create a network and sense of community for the teens and the bees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It was really important to have the gardens where youth live so they would be accessible and create spaces where they can have a sense of ownership,&#8221; says Taylor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149093\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-149093 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-100-519x346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-100-519x346.jpg 519w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-100-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-100-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-100-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-100-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-100-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HBP-ArthurStreet-100-scaled.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students are responsible for taking care of 30 bee hives throughout the greater New Haven area. (Photo: Grey Kenna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the years, the programming has evolved as participating youth have given feedback. The program runs each summer and is purposefully small, with about six students taking part. The students must attend at least 75 percent of the workshops to graduate and are matched with a mentor who provides encouragement throughout the program and helps with practicalities such as transportation and breakfast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;These are kids that are often not going to school or are struggling to get out of bed or are extremely socially anxious. The mentors encourage them, they help with transportation and even get them something to eat. The intensive individual attention is so important,&#8221; says Taylor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students don&#8217;t even get into a bee suit for the first weeks; instead, according to Taylor, they spend time forming relationships, understanding their feelings and their body&#8217;s responses to emotions, such as fear, and identifying what they need to regain a sense of control.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We have these 15-, 16-year-olds who are used to pretending to be tough, but it&#8217;s hard to pretend to be tough around the bees, and it allows for more authentic conversations around fear,&#8221; says Taylor. \u201cWhen someone with a trauma history has that fear response activated but can regain a sense of control, I believe that is healing.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since starting the project, Taylor has watched students heal, graduate with professional skills they take with them to college or new jobs and blossom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Alex Guzman, who graduated from the program in 2019 and continues to work at the Huneebee Project as junior bee instructor while attending college, the experience helped teach her skills she continues to use today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve learned how to socialize in a more professional setting, and I&#8217;ve also gathered a lot more patience,&#8221; says Guzman. &#8220;I have been handling my mental health, learning when to set a boundary or take a break when I need to and take a breather.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149090\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149090\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-149090 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/july2022-maria-huneebeeproject-1-1-231x346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/july2022-maria-huneebeeproject-1-1-231x346.jpg 231w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/july2022-maria-huneebeeproject-1-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/july2022-maria-huneebeeproject-1-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/july2022-maria-huneebeeproject-1-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/july2022-maria-huneebeeproject-1-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/july2022-maria-huneebeeproject-1-1-667x1000.jpg 667w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/july2022-maria-huneebeeproject-1-1-scaled.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After participating in the program, Maria Roman hopes to keep her own bees one day. (Photo: Grey Kenna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They&#8217;re skills she&#8217;s learned from interacting with others in the program and the bees themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;You have to be really patient when you approach bees and to take your time,&#8221; says Guzman, &#8220;kind of like when you&#8217;re dealing with any living thing. Everything I&#8217;ve been doing with the bees has contributed to developing those [socialization and patience] skills.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students also learn practical office skills, such as using a printer or a coffee maker, that are easy to take for granted but intimidating if you&#8217;ve never used\u00a0 them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I look at myself now and, sometimes, I feel like I&#8217;m ready to be a boss,&#8221; says Roman, who adds that she would someday like to have her own house with bees that she could take care of and eventually, if she has children, teach her kids about.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spending 15 weeks surrounded by bees wasn&#8217;t Maria Roman&#8217;s plan for the summer. 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