Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary
Indigo & Cowrie Freedom Village Project
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 OUR
Community(s).
Elders.
Youth. Ancestors.
Adults. Mama Earth.
The source beyond and within.
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We bridge to empower with
Truth, Community Care, Intergenerational Bridging,
Food Justice, Education as liberation & Creativity
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"Creativity can change lives for the better.
It heals us, inspires us and solves the world's greatest problems."
- Janae' Jaee" Sumter, Founder
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Rooted Values
Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary LLC is a Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) led multi-layered educational based business 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.
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. We bridge through building and collaborating with organizations and individuals through educational programs, intergenerational and healing arts workshops, artist residences, service projects, curriculum development, handmade products, digital archive, healing services, events, and ancestral ceremonies that foster agriculture, holistic health (mentally, emotionally spiritually, and physically), creative research/solutions that bridges storytelling, expression, and development (personal, professional, and skill).
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 envision ourselves as 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.
Starting in February 2020, Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary LLC developed as a BIPOC community digital platform that bridged people together in connection and healing to uplift creativity through bridging healing practices of exchange, care, learning, and strategizing through virtual creative projects.
During the beginning of COVID-19, when our founder Jaee Sumter was teaching in China, shortly after began the passing of their elders with the realities of teaching aboard during the global pandemic. With the high realities many families and individuals were experiencing globally, Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary started with people sharing the truth of their and bridging together to heal and honor each experience through virtual creative outlets, such as conversations, recipe books, workshops, and artist and poets talks, ancestral sessions, zines, and self-love projects, ultimately providing virtual and physical space to connect and build as a community.
Over time, Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary LLC grounds itself in the soul-heart of the community, growing with community. We are a multilayered educational business that supports and uplifts our communities through arts and wellness-based learning initiatives, such as traveling-based programs, projects, products, services, and service projects, and now a permanent community village that will open in Macon, GA, 2026. Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary is an extension of Jaee’s mission to build with community by providing accessible fundraisers, programs, gatherings, healing events, and projects for communities of color to learn, create, grow, express, and build upon resources our communities need.
Through their personal experiences from victim to survivor, Jaee bridges creative forms of liberation to uplift empowering communities, building stronger foundations together that nurture social change and community sustainment through healing, equity, empowerment, and the arts.
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About The Hive
Bees of the Indigo
Travel Service Project - Ancestral Home Sanctuary & Sustainable Garden Building
Past Service Locations - Bakersfield, CA (July 2023-Feburary 2024) , Oaxaca, Mexico (March 2024- August 2024)
Bees of the Indigo is a two-fold traveling project 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.
Garden Building Mission Projects:
We bridge through building and collaborating with organizations and individuals. From all community collaborations, partnerships, and pathways under Sweet Herbal Honey, 50 % of our proceeds go back to our communities through our Sweet Cause Fund, where we distribute need-based items and resources to the low-income communities we serve and care for. Gratefully, we donated over a thousand dollars through donation drop-offs in 2023 to our unhoused community in California.
Spring and Summer of 2024, we gratefully built and started a sustainable garden in Oaxaca, Mexico. The Bees of Indigo Unity Garden was donated to a beautiful family, Chela and Camila in Oaxaca to continue maintaining the ancestral garden to provide accessible food for their family and local families in the area.
We support through mission projects where we support our low-income families and communities in need without any charge, only love.
Garden Development & Support:
Community Gardens, Schools, Restorative Gardens, Private Gardens, Urban Gardens
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After - August 2024
Through our pathways of liberation, we centralize alternative routes towards the vital accessibility towards holistic health, nutrition, and equity and believe it takes a village to empower our generations toward building long-lasting legacies that end global poverty. We travel in the US and internationally to support our communities hands-on and side-by-side.
Project Programming:
Ancestral workshops, Community Events, Workshops, Creative Fundraisers, and Group community service on the garden. Project duration is dependent on clients' or community needs.
Before - March 2024
Radical Accessibility
Our Initiatives/ Pathways towards Liberation
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Digital Honeycomb Archive & Sweet Programming
Archived Past Creative Project Collaborations & Projects
2020-2024
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.
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...
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.
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...
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
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:
Peanut Butter, Protection Indigo Bottles, Oat milk, Salsa, Yoni Incense Holders, Herbal Blended Honey, Menstrual Relief Tincture, Herbal Seasonings, Stress & Root Anxiety Relief Mojo Bags, Pickled Preserves, Spiritual Brooms and More..
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.
Our Project Mission:
Environmental & Healing Justice
Tourism Issue: Cultural Exchange & Preservation
Poverty Issue: Spiritual & Ancestral Research around State- Drought
Practices around Ancestral & Community Liberation
Centering Question: How to we create greater access and intentional space for sustainable free food and healing arts through each one, teach one?
Previous Projects:
Bakersfield, CA
Oaxaca, Mexico
Ancestral Centered Workshops + Sacred Gatherings
Unity Community Garden
Rest is a Priority: Short Term Guest Room Rental
The Legacy Bearers Dreamers-in Residence
Gratitude to the ancestors of past, present and future- collective legacy.
Previous Projects: The Ubuntu Cohort Project
Principles: Collaboration, Creativity, Unity & Power, Activism, Healing is Expressive, Education as liberation
To become a community partner, educator or client, please email our founder, Jaee Sumter, jaee.sweetherbalhoney@gmail.com. Thank you!
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Ase' O: Descendants of Roots & Legacy Arts & Wellness Education Program
Asé O Descendants of Roots & Legacy is an educational initiative under Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary LLC 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.
Our mission 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.
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.
our Founder: Jaee Sumter
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Framework: Artist Related Work & Projects
Janae’ “Jaee/Honey” Sumter (they/them) is a migrating folk multi-disciplinary artist, curator, creativity coach, healing practitioner, organizer and educator from New Orleans, LA, Jaee centers their multi-cultural roots (Gullah, Cherokee, and Creole) as a portal towards cultural exchange, connectivity, liberation and understanding. Jaee usings their work as a form of storytelling; honoring as a vessel-conduit towards personal and collective liberation.
As the founder, their wholistic sacred work manifests through integrating extensive creative-based healing modalities that initiate socio-political awareness and uproots colonized frameworks and systems. These modalities support self and collective awareness through replanting and uplifting roots towards empowerment, wellness, indigenous sovereignty, arts activism, social integration, and the accessibility of creative education as a key to liberation and social-emotional understanding.
Creative Focuses: Digital Design, Arts Technique & Arts Integration Curriculum Development, Instructional Arts Coaching, Creativity Coaching, Travel & Nature Photography, Community Art Curator, Improv & Movement Meditation Instructor, Intuitive Painting, Public & 1:1 Ancestral Altars, Reiki Energy Healing, Hoodoo Rootwork, Homesteading, Community Interactive Installations, Material Assemblages.
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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.
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.
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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 Unity Bee Garden 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.
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:
- Arts Wellness Workshops
- Ancestral Creative Ceremonies
- Plant Medicine Research
- Garden Community Events
- Community Service Projects
- Solution based Creative Fundraisers
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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.
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.
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!
Thank you to our community clients and 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 Bakerfield, CA
To Donate: Please email, sweetherbalhoney@gmail.com!
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Indigo & Cowrie Village
The Indigo & Cowrie Village is our Freedom Garden and Sanctuary opening in Macon, GA 2026! The village 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.
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.
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.
Jaee Honey Sumter
Check out Jaee Sumter's artist & practitioner offerings
Here you will find Jaee's interdisciplinary community practice and portfolio.
For collaborating and contracting, email them at jaee.sweetherbalhoney@gmail.com
educator, instructional coach, creativity coach, independent arts and art literacy currculum developer
energy healing practioner, visual artist, dancer, creative writer and more!
Our Wholistic Products
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 our journey! Our nutritional products and recipe blends derive from the wisdom of our ancestors -- grandmas and grandpas
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.
Partnerships, Collaborations, & Building Together
1. Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary partners with individuals and organizations by supporting and/or expanding their existing program(s) or programming ideas.
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.
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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The Indigo & Cowrie Freedom Garden is our new permanent garden in Macon, GA!
We center on the freedom of creative expression, wholistic hands-on learning, and solution building. Through providing equitable access to nutritional food, community service, charitable projects, retreats, ancestral ceremonies, arts environmental camps, food cultivation, and cultural exchange events, we seek to bridge and support the needs of youth, individuals, and families we serve and build with.
We advocate for the strength and unity of community learning. We take a non-traditional approach to education that interweaves spiritual, cultural, and historical preservation with creative liberation, mental health awareness, and personal-communal exploration.
We use artmaking and hands-in-soil investigation as a non-clinical pathway to art therapy. We center these approaches to reduce stress, poverty, and mental dissociation. We work towards promoting overall wellness, trauma recovery, resilience, mental & personal growth, creative solution thinking, empowerment, and inner child healing.
Our mission is to empower balanced minds, bodies, and lifestyles as we serve and celebrate in action.
