At the core of us, we channel and move into action with the wisdom of our elders and the resilient guidance from our ancestors. We honor and integrate the imagination of our youth in building collective practices towards intergenerational understanding that acts as a lit candle towards carrying the collective torch towards liberation and innovating a reimagined world.  

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We use the framework of a honey hive and apothecary of souls--- a hive of bees understanding the collective mission to honor ourselves and community members. As we continue to learn and build together, our honey pours itself over for all to experience as one. As an apothecary of people, we are the healing herbs that heal ourselves and support each other in healing. With that combination of bees, honey, and spices, we create a powerful and integrated blend from Mama Earth that acts as our guide towards personal and collective freedom.

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Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary is a moving ecosystem that bridges people and breathes life into the possibilities towards liberation based on each person who partners, offers, shares through word of mouth, and shares themselves. It's every one of us  -- giving back to ourselves, our communities, and the earth as a village of community care.  

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We believe in the power of creativity and collaboration; our mission is to help bring communities together to bridge intergenerational gaps, develop meaningful connections, inspire positive change and solve problems. Through our creative programming, initiatives and community partnerships, our goal is to build environments where social equity is can thrive through creativity, education, archiving legacy, storytelling, skill development, abundant thinking, social-emotional understanding, agricultural practices, and activism that elevates us as a collective towards solutions that end global poverty, colonized frameworks, cultural, violence and ancestral mystification and community separation. Our community creative agency acts as a community-governing water well. Partnerships, services, and products financially supports organizing producers, makers, collaborating community focused artists, movement healers and educating creators. Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary also donates a substantial portion of our proceeds to under-resourced communities through our Sweet Cause Donation Fund. 

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Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary is founded and nurtured by Janae' "Jaee/Honey" Sumter and the community of people who exchange and build in this work.

HE(ART) OF US:

We bridge and partner with communities with an understanding that collective power, legacy building, and education are our pathways toward liberation, heart-centered social change, and interpersonal connection. Through education, we provide the opportunity to push forward the narrative of "Each One, Teach, One," as our ancestors did - by offering programs for creators to teach what they know and build creative-based sustainable projects that foster change, regardless of age, background, or prior experience. We work with adults and youth to develop creative-based learning environments and programs that foster collective equity sustainability, global sovereignty, generational wealth, professional and personal development, intergenerational bridging, ancestral and multicultural awareness, community care, personal safety, and legacy building. 

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Our education and healing arts center point welcomes liberation through creative freedom and bridges our collective narrative towards emancipation for us, our ancestors, and the generations to continue. We believe in human rights, social and health equity, and community empowerment; we build and create understanding with the communities we serve from the heart. Through the power of connection, developing new foundations, nurturing holistic understanding through creative practice beyond barriers, and honoring cultural exchange, we use our liberation pathways to welcome new ideas, strategies, and opportunities that fuel the fire of world-building and social change.