A Message from Our President

I am so excited you’re eager to learn more about the project! Originally, we had created it to teach our fellow students about modern farming and how blueberries from Peru arrive in local supermarkets in LA while providing exposure to another culture and a third-world country. With the approval and funding of our school, we were on our way to expanding worldviews in our community. Unfortunately, COVID happened, and we had to find another way to connect our community to Peru.
 
Eventually, we realized that we had overlooked something that was right under our noses. AgroVision, mainly a blueberry farm, required bees for farming blueberries. The farm was dotted with many bee boxes that they rented at the time. We had an idea: if we invested in our own bee boxes and kept them on the farm, we could both help the environment and sell the honey we harvest. With the proceeds from selling our honey, we could support local schools and the kids through education. Moreover, we learned that bees are slowly becoming endangered, and our project would help repopulate the world's dwindling bee population.
 
So, my siblings and I started THE HONEY PROJECT Foundation, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and MY HONEY PROJECT LLC, which is our honey business. We aim to break their cycle of poverty by transforming members of impoverished Chiclayo communities into skilled beekeepers and providing their children with better educational opportunities. In addition, we are proud to announce our involvement in rewilding efforts that, while helping repopulate one of the planet's most precious proponents of life, restore the equatorial dry forest biomes lost through agricultural expansion.
 
Thank you for your support, and we hope that together, we can make an ever bigger positive impact on the world.

Sincerely,

Collin Assil

President, The Honey Project Foundation