Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary
Indigo & Cowrie Freedom Village
Honeycomb BiPOC Digital Archive
Sweet Herbs Herbal
Online Shop & Market Vendor
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Sweet Cause Donation Fund
Bees of the Indigo Ancestral Project
The Legacy Bearers
Dreamers-in-Residency Project
Ase' O community Arts & Wellness Education Program
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Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary LLC is an educational the bridge that brings us all together in building equitable futures for past, present and future generations.
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Elders. Ancestors
Youth. Divine Guides.
Adults. Mama Earth.
The divine creator beyond and within.
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We bridge to ​empower with
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Truth
Justice
Community Care
Intergenerational Bridging
Educational liberation
Creativity
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ecosystem / intergenerational hive
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- Janae' "Jaee" Sumter
Founder
"Creativity can change lives for the better.
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It heals us, inspires us and solves the world's greatest problems."
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ABOUT
Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary LLC is a Black, Black-Indigenous, Indigenous, and Person of Color (BIPOC) led multi-layered educational aid and ecosystem that combats poverty and human rights systemic issues through hands-on education, healing justice + food justice, and the expressive healing arts. We provide creative-centered 'each one, teaching one' pathways that plant solution-based seeds towards world-building, healthier living, global equity, and sustainable justice.
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We believe in getting to the root of systemic injustice by working collectively to rebuild and restore the communities we live, serve, and migrate to by providing foundational solutions to ending personal and societal injustice.
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our Mission
We are a mighty creative Black Indigenous-led community educational aid of one (our founder) with a mission to provide liberational learning programs for youth, adults, and intergenerational exchange. Our programs, digital archive, workshops, community creative projects, and arts wellness educational curricula's goal is to inform each other, uplift our voices, and bridge inequitable gaps within and between communities of color, within and beyond the Afro & Afro-Indigenous Diaspora, locally and internationally.
Rooted
Values
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Ancestral Reverence
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Respect for All Identities, Ages & Backgrounds
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Each One, Teach One
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Youth & Adult Empowerment
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Food, Housing & Health Equity
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Healing through Storytelling
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Community Solution Building
Unity & Power
When personal and collective power is used without overpowering each other, it fosters mindfulness and collaboration that is honest in its expansion towards cultivating change and growth. It reaches the masses and formulates beyond us as individuals and as people.
Education bridges liberation
We believe that education is a powerful pathway towards liberation; a key to connecting people, knowledge, and solutions.
Creativity
Creativity changes the world. It takes creativity to develop a cure that saves millions. It takes creativity to listen to a rhythm and move with its pace. It takes creativity to learn how to develop a new skill, save a life, cure a body or tell a story.
​It takes creativity to build and destroy the world. We challenge ourselves to use creativity to build. Using our creativity as a sociopolitical tool of empowerment, guidance, service, education, equitability, and sustainability in developing a stronger community-governed foundation.
Healing as
Artivism
Healing and Artivism are two concepts and actions that are one and the same. Through healing, we understand the significance of our purpose for advocating and approaching social justice through our own lens and ability(s). Through activism, we heal personally and collectively. Artivism is a form of healing that can merge our experiences with awareness and intentional action.
By understanding our past, present, that builds our future, nourishing a better world that people shouldn’t feel the need to escape; a world that teaches freedom from the viewpoint of personal and collective understanding.
By teaching from an activist approach, we bring trauma and injustice to the brightest light that moves us towards a holistic state of healing. In return, that healing nurtures understanding, forgiveness, new beliefs, and a new awareness that spreads and empowers others in their healing activism.
Rooted
Principals
Collaboration
We believe that collaboration is essential in our personal and collective emancipation.
Collaboration centered on an aligned mission, goal, or vision can build longer-lasting generational change. Collaboration breathes life into our momentum that reaches beyond our own capacities. Effective and mutual effort can act as a guide that inspires unity, care, solution-building, understanding, and execution.
We believe that with the willingness to look within and beyond ourselves in working as a team, we cultivate intentional action(s) that shake or crumble unjust systems while bringing forth greater awareness of our life experiences.
Sankofa
​We honor the nurturer, storyteller, strategist, solution builder, archivist, the legacy bearer, and mama - the Sankofa (go back and get it/learn from the past). The Ghanaian Akan Adrinka Symbol and philosophy that bridges our generations and reminds us that we must go back in order to move forward and plant new seeds as we go. It bridges our ancestral history and generational power.
Through providing need-based resources and introducing or integrating our programs, we work with the communities we serve to build upon new or existing projects that meet the needs of our communities.
We are a traveling community-based ecosystem rooted in liberation, Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous sovereignty, cultural preservation/exchange, healing arts, artivism, intergenerational bridging, and creative solution education.
We believe in bridging with each other to support and empower our generations toward building long-lasting legacies and ending global poverty.
About The Hive
Healing Our Lineages, Ancestral Altar Making Workshop,
San Francisco Public Library - African American Center
Summer 2025
Our Initiatives/ Pathways towards Liberation
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Digital Honeycomb Archive & Sweet Programming
Archived Past Creative Project Collaborations & Projects
2020-2024
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The Honeycomb Archive and Creative Programming highlights the power of our narratives, ancestrally and generationally. The archive features how we (personally and collectively) explore and find safety, freedom, togetherness, and purpose through honoring our creative exploration, inner imagination, and social awareness that guides our stories and provides space to share them honestly and safely.
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Honeycomb Archive provides accessible digital space for BIPOC international creatives to share their stories, learn, and bridge together through creative exploration and support. Archived projects include short-term in-person and virtual events, artist talks, donation drives, digital recipe books, group discussions, affirmative circles, educational workshops, YouTube storytelling series, zines, author book talks, and more...
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We are grateful for all the movement-shaking creative souls/collaborators who've shared themselves with us collectively while also discovering themselves. That is powerful! There is power in our narratives that inspires and activates empowerment and unity.
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As we continue in this nurturing pathway of legacy bridging and building, our programming bridges the fertile healing between our ideas and our experiences that provide liberation and understanding. Together, we produce virtual and in-person events, sustainability classes, creative exploration workshops, artists' talks, healing-based projects, and more...
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We support you with vision development, production outlets, idea mapping/step-by-step planning to execution, archiving, and marketing support!
Collage Made by welder & urban farmer Karina Roca for 1-year anniversary
About the Archive:
Honeycomb Archive began in January 2020, during COVID-19, while our founder taught in Mainland China. Through their personal experiences, detrimental and rewarding, they created a social media hive on Instagram for Queer and non-queer individuals like them to express their individual and collective realities as a result of the pandemic and social injustice.
With the start and continuation of Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary, we develop autonomous spaces for personal connection and collaboration, where creatives can develop soul-based projects that nurture storytelling, healing, and cultural understanding, each one, teach one, and international-intergenerational exchange. Over four years, we've produced over 30 creative healing projects and collaborated with creatives from China, South Africa, France, New York, Georgia, California, and more.... We believe in centering the power of our stories and how we find liberation and healing from them as we find safety in them that promotes mindful inclusivity and exchange with each other.
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Sweet Herbs Online Shop
​​ Sweet Herbs products are intuitively handmade and homegrown with love and care. Our product collection includes vegan nutrition-based, herbal medicine, and home-kitchen spiritual decor care. Our products are prayed over in the highest vibration to support you on your health and spiritual journey of wholistic health and good living! We thank all our amazing customers for your support; we are thankful to serve you during your journey! Our nutritional products and recipe blends derive from the wisdom of our ancestors -- grandmas and grandpas
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From Market and Online sales, a huge portion goes towards our Donation Cause Fund, where we donate ongoing resources to causes and initiatives that uplift and empower BIPOC communities. We honor the roots of our ancestors with guidance, wisdom, and hope.Our handmade products conjure spiritual alignment, empowerment, protection, ancestral connection, purpose, community care, and self/universal love.
All products sold under Sweet Herbs are handcrafted by Janae' "Jaee Honey" Sumter.
Homemade PRODUCTS:
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Peanut Butter, Protection Indigo Bottles, Oat milk, Salsa, Yoni Incense Holders, Herbal Blended Honey, Menstrual Relief Tincture, Herbal Seasonings, Pickled Preserves, Spiritual Brooms and More..
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Check out our Sweet Elders Homegrown Indigo Collection
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Bees of the Indigo Ancestral Sanctuary Project
Bees of the Indigo Sanctuary is a two-fold traveling project under the Bees of the Indigo that manifests as a moving sacred space rooted in ancestral connection with the land. Through the project, we uplift the power of exchange and learning through creating programming that centers on the of sacred medicine of the land, including healing arts, cultural exchange, creativity, community care, and indigenous sovereignty. This is an inclusive space that centers BIPOC folks, locally and internationally to explore themselves, each other and exchange in creative practices that connects us deeper with our ancestral lineage towards liberation. We believe in providing space for BIPOC communities to explore and unlock connective and creative practices that builds or strengthens their relationship with their ancestors and the earth.
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Our Project Mission:
Environmental & Healing Justice
Tourism Issue: Cultural Exchange & Preservation
Poverty Issue: Spiritual & Ancestral Research around State- Drought
Practices around Ancestral & Community Liberation
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Centering Question: How to we create greater access and intentional space for sustainable free food and healing arts through each one, teach one?
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Previous Projects:
Bakersfield, CA
Oaxaca, Mexico
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Gratitude to the ancestors of past, present and future- collective legacy.
Ancestral Centered Workshops + Sacred Gatherings
Unity Community Garden
Rest is a Priority: Short Term Guest Room Rental
The Legacy Bearers Dreamers-in Residence
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Ase' O: Descendants of Roots & Legacy Arts & Wellness Education Program
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Previous Projects: The Ubuntu Cohort Project
Principles: Collaboration, Creativity, Unity & Power, Activism, Healing is Expressive, Education as liberation
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To become a community partner, educator or client, please email us at sweetherbalhoney@gmail.com. Thank you!
​Asé O Descendants of Roots & Legacy our arts and wellness educational initiative that promotes the power of community, the arts, wholistic health, and educational liberation. We ground ourselves in the power of expression that breathes life into learning through creative practice and world-building. Through introducing community arts and wellness, we root our program in the foundation of creative inquiry-based education.
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Our mission or Ase' O is to provide explorative and imaginative learning environments that empower our understanding of the world around us and our role in social change. ​We believe that arts and wellness can ignite the spark of creativity, informing space for critical thought that empowers research, reflection, community solution building, world mapping, and the accessibility of creating an equitable world.
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We offer teaching, coaching, curriculum development, project coordination, and program development services to our community partners and families. Through our program projects and community partnerships, we collaborate and provide teaching opportunities to community facilitators to provide learning experiences that uplift radical healing, skill development, and Indigenous sovereignty.
We fight to make teamwork, the dream work.
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Legacy Bearers Dreamers Residency Project
The Legacy Bearers is a Dreamers-in-Residence is a multi-dimensional and disciplinary experimental archival residency. The LB Dreamers Residency is a think tank that explores dream world-building through rest, playful imagination, creative expression, artivism, service, storytelling, legacy building, solution strategizing, cultural preservation/exchange, and ancestral practice that envisions and builds sustainable foundations toward Indigenous sovereignty and collective liberation.
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The Legacy Bearers DIR project that provides local and international artists of all creative disciplines with inspiring independent time and space to develop new, meaningful, and socially challenging work that fosters personal and collective liberation. Through residency plans, intuitive inspiration, research, and archiving, resident artists will explore any creative form(s) of choice to build artworks, experimental projects, or workshops that bring those dreams to life as a bridge toward personal and collective liberation, intergenerational bridging, activism, and legacy building.
SoulFull Alliance
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The Soulfull Alliance
The Soul Full Alliance (SoulF) is a collective of traveling harmonized community-centered creative businesses, organizations, and creators who build community liberation spaces as an ecosystem network.
The Soul Full Alliance interdependently supports each other, forges together, and partners to produce creative-based fundraisers, events, distribution projects, charity causes, and programs that further build creative solutions that empower our communities toward personal and collective liberation.
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Bees of the Indigo: Bee in Unity Garden Service Project
The Unity Bee Garden is a two-fold traveling project under the Bees of the Indigo that centers on garden landscaping and wellness workshops that empower community action around sustainable garden buildings. We work intuitively with the divine spirits and ancestors to build sustainable gardens that foster freedom, food sovereignty, healing, and justice. We construct side-by-side with the communities we serve through collective support and solution-building.
The Bee Unity Community Garden centers learning, healing, and alternative sacred practice that reconnects us with the land, our ancestors, each other and ultimately empowers us towards personal & collective sovereignty. We believe in food security, equitable global sovereignty, ancestral connection, and creative healing practice that liberates the mind, body, and spirit.
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We believe in fostering learning environments that provide the space to build together as we unpack history, decolonize frameworks, encourage healthier practices, bridge generational understanding, celebrate our collective cultural differences and diversities, and embrace community empowerment perspectives through the practice of our sacred ancestral methods. We develop learning-based programming that center:​
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- Arts Wellness Workshops
- Ancestral Creative Ceremonies - Community Service Projects
- Plant Medicine Research - Solution based Creative Fundraisers
- Garden Community Events
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The Soulfull Alliance
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Sweet Cause Donation Fund
We believe in the donation of community-based systems and collaboration. Through our donation fund, Sweet Cause Donation Fund, we financially support creatives for short-term projects and small charity causes that further uplift global social change and end systemic oppression. ​Incoming proceeds from work, goes directly back into the community through our Sweet Cause Donation Fund.
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Through our Sweet Cause Donation Fund, in 2023, we donated $1,000 in hygiene kits, fresh produce from local schools in Oakland, 100 tampons and 20 community-made letters through Donation Drive & Drop-Off Distribution towards serving our shelter-less communities in the California area.
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We thank our partners for your support and community leadership in bridging and ending systemic injustice! ​​​
Thank you to our donors:
FM Publishing in San Francsico Now Alternative Soultions, and the Oakland, CA community for writing such powerful letters!
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Thank you to our community collaborators through our Ase' O Education Program:
African American Center at the San Francisco Library, Lions Creek Apartments, University of California, Berkeley People of Color (POC) House, Makerz Studio Kids, Community Interventions, and Now Alternative Soulutions in Bakersfield, CA. Collaborations support our further cause and helps us further provide resources for youth, families and groups in underdeveloped communities.
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To Donate: Please email, sweetherbalhoney@gmail.com!
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Indigo & Cowrie Freedom Village
The Indigo & Cowrie Co-Learning, Co-Growing, Co-Living Freedom Village are our privately owned, community-focused farm villages that centers on the freedom of resistance, resilience, restoration, celebration, self-determination, and community cooperation from oppression through each one, teach one. We honor the power of exchange, cultural & historical awareness, creative expression, wholistic hands-on learning, and collective solution building as pathways towards liberation.
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With equitable access to freedom space and whole-person learning, we offer programs that provide ongoing nutritional food, community service opportunities, charitable projects, healing retreats, intergenerational/legacy conversations, and freedom practices. Through freedom practice, we learn & teach how to grow our food, make our own medicine, understand each other, and express ourselves while (re)discovering our purpose and sustainably providing for ourselves, our families, and our communities.
We decolonize our minds, bodies, and spirits here. We advocate for the preservation of our afro-indigenous practices that bridge, restore, and rebuild long-standing legacies for future generations to continue beyond us.
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We advocate for the strength and unity of community. We take a non-traditional approach to education that intertwines spiritual, cultural, and historical preservation with creative liberation, mental health awareness, and personal-communal exploration.​ We use art-making and hands-in-soil investigation as a non-clinical pathway to art as wellness. We center approaches that reduce stress, mental dissociation, and end poverty and forms of violence and addiction. We promote inner child healing, mental & personal growth, sustainable creative solutions, and people power that guides us to justice.
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Opening Late 2026
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Venue & Field Trips
We are also a venue for creators, visioners, healers, educators, schools and activists to hold sacred retreats, camps, field trips, and community-based projects that elevate us towards interconnection, intercultural upliftment, empowerment and liberation.
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The Villages
1. Macon, GA - Freedom Community Garden:
providing free access to nourishment and community service opportunities. Supports 6 families through Family Plot Program & Bulk Food Baskets​​
2. Arizona - Off Grid Campsite & Vacation Rental
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3. Alabama - Off-Grid Freedom Farm School & Retreats:
providing short term and long-term low-cost housing, retreats and community learning camps for BIPOC
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50% of incoming proceeds and rentals goes directly towards our Donation Cause Fund and to sustain the villages.
Jaee Honey Sumter
Check out Jaee Sumter's artist & practitioner offerings
Here you will find Jaee's interdisciplinary community practice and portfolio.
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For collaborating and contracting, email them at jaee.sweetherbalhoney@gmail.com
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educator, instructional coach, creativity coach, independent arts and art literacy currculum developer
energy healing practioner, visual artist, dancer, creative writer and more!
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Partnerships, Collaborations, & Building Together
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1. Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary partners with individuals and organizations by supporting and/or expanding their existing program(s) or programming ideas.
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2. Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary introduces our programs, products, services, and/or projects to your community through short-term or long-term partnerships or sponsorships.
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3. Creatives, Educators, Collectives, and Businesses, collaborating with Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary to produce short-term projects or long-term need-based programs that support the communities we serve. The final proceeds will financially support all parties. Collectively from the final proceeds, a funding portion will support a charity cause or service project.
4. SoulFull (Soulf) Creative Community Business Alliance (Coming Soon)
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