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06/15/2023 SOURCE: modernfarmer.com

For These Teens, a Unique Beekeeping Program Teaches About Much More Than Honey

Spending 15 weeks surrounded by bees wasn't Maria Roman'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 Huneebee Project, a beekeeper-in-residence program that offers young people the chance to interact with bees while learning essential life skills.  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, 'You seriously want me to be around bees? Definitely not.' With no prior pollinator experience, Roman was apprehensive. 'I knew they stung

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06/15/2023 SOURCE: www.msn.com

Creamery Brook Bison holds Festival at the Farm on Connecticut Open House Day

Among the many activities available to Connecticut residents on this year’s Open House Day (June 10) was a visit to Creamery Brook Bison, in Brooklyn. Creamery Brook’s Festival on the Farm offered a craft fair, donkey rides, food, ice cream, wagon rides out to the farm’s bison pastures, a 4-H club bake sale, and more. Since it is still officially spring, there were quite a few babies to see ...

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