Black Bee Honey provides business experience for Orlando teens

OR;LANDO, Fla. – The city of Orlando started its Kidz Zone service in the Parramore neighborhood with the intent of improving the well-being of the children who live in that area.

The Parramore Kidz Zone offers a unique program for the children it serves that gives them real-world, entrepreneurial experience along with an opportunity to provide food for their community.

Black Bee Honey is a student entrepreneurship program that was founded in 2017, allowing the students to learn beekeeping, honey production and sales.

“We have four different flavors of honey. All four have different benefits. So we have palmetto, gallberry, wildflower and orange blossom,” Thierry Francois, a recent graduate of Black Bee Honey said. “Orange blossom is good for your immune system. Wildflower is good for allergies and palmetto and gallberry are cooking honey — and also good for your drinks.”

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