Voluntering for the love of honey !

By Sylvain Gardier

Dear readers,

We all know honey for its sweet taste and for its therapeutic effect. Honey is described as "the nectar of the gods, symbol of sweetness, love, happiness or longevity". I' m writing to share my experience in Sweet Beginning,  an experience sensitizing.


Let me introduce Sweet Beginning a West Side Company that extract honey from urban  hive. I think it has been the second time that I have a approached a hive from so close in my entire life .

They have 20 hive that can host 300 bees and let you calculate how much bees it could have in summer

The honey extracted is done with a delicate manner and is respectful of the environment.



Did I make your mouth watered ?

This is how honey is made: extraction of wax and then they break the holes and leave the honey flow ( this is a sentence that you can say in family dinner)


Here is the incredible aspect of Sweet Beginning. This company offers a great opportunity for area residents who have difficulties to find a first job. the company don't any backgrounds it just wan't to help people. We have the opportunities to met bees keeper and and to learn about their experiences in Sweet Beginning. They have all the same goal: make themselves a productive member of the society. Inside the company the team spirit could not be better, it is a full job program where they try the best to be ready to rework. The program is 90 days formation adapted where they learn many tasks such as extraction, labeling and production. Where maintaining is present: the sharing of knowledge and abilities and skills.  Therefore this program make them a multi-taskers and they are able to choose many works after their experience in Sweet Beginning: one Bee Keeper told me that she wanted to open her own business in the cooking area.

Where is volunteering acting in this business ?

Volunteering has many benefits:

•  Solve Problems: Sweet Beginning goal is to make fall social barriers to those who's background is issuing to find a job
• Improve Lives: One Bee Keeper said " I never thought working with bees but when I tell to friends they found it exciting". Most of the Bee Keeper have motivation for the future. Sweet beginning make them change their lives. 
• Connect to Others: thanks to Sweet Beginnings Business, many partnership are made with the fruit of it production, especially with restaurant that purchase their honey. The team effort is also reward by other company. For instance Sweet Beginning received a big check from the Bank of America for their work. Thanks to this money Sweet Beginning will be able to improve their place, to develop their professionalism and buy more equipment.  
• Transform Our Own Lives: the founder of this association Brenda Palms Barber might is satisfied of herself about the cause she is fighting for so it the other members of the team.

I hope you all understand the purpose of this article, by volunteering you can achieve amazing things. It opens you many doors and it is a key of succeeding in USA.
Dear readers I got to leave you, toasts or ready and I have to taste the honey given from Sweet Beginning.

Love, tenderness  and honey