Brooklyn Bee Corps

Brooklyn Bee Corps is a paid summer apprenticeship for local youth aged 14-18. The program focuses on apiculture (beekeeping!), urban ecology, and green jobs. Apprentices will work in live hives, go on field trips, and learn to identify native/invasive plants and pollinators.  At the end of the apprenticeship, participants will gain a deep understanding of the connection between pollinators, plants, and the ecosystem benefits that they provide, as well as the practical skills to maintain a healthy honeybee hive.

City Growers’ Brooklyn Bee Corps Apprentices will:
– apprentice in beekeeping with a certified beekeeper
– gain green job skills in native plant conservation and restoration
– have the opportunity to extend their beekeeping work through honey/wax business planning
– explore opportunities in green jobs through field trips

The program runs from July 20th – August 18th. Apply now!

Today’s young people are tomorrow’s leaders, and it is our responsibility to equip them with the tools they need to create a greener and healthier future. Reversing the course of environmental degradation can only happen if it starts now, with informed, aware, environmentally literate and skilled young people. City Growers’ Brooklyn Bee Corps cultivates such leaders.