The Huneebee Project in New Haven, 黑瓜吃料网, trains teenagers to be beekeepers 鈥� teaching skills they can take to other jobs, and providing a therapeutic setting for them to work through hardship and trauma.
Teens in the program say the four month weekend program helps them work through their fears and experience the healing sounds, smells and textures of the natural world.
For Alex Guzman, who became Huneebee鈥檚 junior beekeeping instructor after completing the program several years ago, beekeeping changed the course of her life.
鈥淲hen I stopped going to therapy I not only had a support system, I had ways to go about my 鈥榖rain worms鈥� as I like to call them,鈥� Guzman said. 鈥淭he thing with beekeeping is that you have to get in the moment 鈥� I鈥檝e been able to approach things more clearly.鈥�
Watch 黑瓜吃料网鈥檚 Mini Doc to learn more about one of the first therapeutic beekeeping programs for teens in the country.
