co-creating & Collective care
Rooted in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, in what is named "Barrio Boriken", The Honeycomb Network is a vibrant, Puerto Rican femme-owned hub where art, healing, and social transformation converge.
Connecting a collective that believes our remedies are co-created beyond the individual and that cultural exchange and community care is key in our ability to thrive.
We center healing justice strategies, collaborating with local BIPOC holistic artists, educators, cultural workers, land stewards, energy practitioners, authors, and therapists.
Together, we cultivate + curate spaces where expressive arts, accessible knowledge, and a well being praxis intersect. Holistically supporting individuals and amplifying the brilliance, resilience, and ancestral wisdom of the communities we serve.
From immersive healing arts workshops, herbal classes, and somatic movement and pop-ups to cultural celebrations, community reading salons, and dialogues. Our dynamic curation of programming interplays traditional modalities with forward facing solutions. We honor land reconnection, celebrate creative play, and practice regenerative futures of collaboration.
OUR FIRST DIGITAL CATALOG IS HERE!
Featuring healing formulas crafted with plantas from Borikén + Chicago — a sensorial blend of island roots and urban resilience. Explore our offerings through lush visual storytelling and step into the rebirth of our apothecary. Click the photo to access the catalog + collection.
What do we offer?
Co-creating classes
From plant based cooking and Afro-Caribbean dance to chakra balancing, candle creating, community medicine making, urban gardening and creative healing arts, to deeper courses and cohorts.
Our range of in-person and virtual workshops are curated to meet the desires of our diverse community.
Collective Care services
We host a hybrid boutique apothecary with handmade self care items from local makers both in Chicago and Puerto Rico.
We offer virtual counseling services and life coaching through our trusted partnership with Living in Empathy Therapy Collective, a decolonial mental health practice.
We have a trauma informed, in-house certified community herbalist and offer monthly herbalism classes and study groups
We hold wellness programming for young people and adults through partnerships with professional restorative justice and peace circle practitioners as well as mental, physical and spiritual health focused pop-ups.
MICRO-RETREATS + FLEX SPACE
MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO
COMING SOON IN 2026!
CURRENT + UPCOMING PROGRAM & EVENTS
IN PERSON POP UP - CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER
Join us for this in person special pop up at the Chicago Cultural Center! We will be one of the featured “Neighborhood Spotlight” organizations offering holiday collage card making!
Family friendly and FREE.
REMEDIOS: VIRTUAL COMMUNITY MEDICINE MAKING
Remedios is back in December for our monthly meet ups! For the fall/winter season we will be going virtual and meeting you in the kitchen to share knowledge on a featured plant ally while co-creating formulas and sharing herbal stories.
December’s plant is the rose. and we will deep dive into the rose family to learn all about the profound healing this special flower offers us during times of inflamed emotions and grief.
We will be making rose water/hydrosol and/or an anointing heart oil together!
Participants will receive digital downloads of:
*Rose Materia Medica
*Supply list
*Recipes card (for the communal medicine making)
*Engagement exercises
HIERBA BUENA STUDY GROUP
Relaunching in January of 2026!
Offering a virtual monthly study group for those who want to deepen their herbal knowledge and understanding in accountable community.
Each month will feature a plant ally to dive into and learn about from materia medica, to historical context, folklore, herbal terms and spiritual uses.
Study group is $10 exchange for curation and labor of materials/time but nobody is turned away for lack of funds
