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.
What do we offer?
Co-creating classes
From plant based cooking and Afro-Caribbean dance to chakra balancing, candle making, urban gardening and creative arts, to unique brand strategies and entrepreneurship classes for your creative business growth. Our range of in-house and virtual workshops are curated to meet the desires of our diverse community.
Collective Care services
We host a hybrid boutique apothecary with self care items from local makers. An in-house licensed mental health therapist collective, a certified master herbalist network and certified life-coaches are also available. All of whom are bi-lingual. We hold wellness programming for young people and adults through partnerships with professional restorative justice and peace circle practitioners as well as mental and physical health focused pop-ups.
flex space + gallery
CURRENTLY ON HOLD.
Our 1,715 + flex space hosts a gallery with seasonal resident exhibitions. It is available for rotating monthly markets that center BIPOC businesses and creatives, and provides opportunities for artists to pop-up with us and collaborate. As well as for businesses to facilitate meetings and staff retreats
weeknights and weekends as available
CURRENT + UPCOMING PROGRAM & EVENTS
REMEDIOS: Community medicine making
July Theme: Dreaming Rebellion: Plant Medicine for Imagining New Worlds Beyond Empire ✨
This month for our REMEDIOS: Community Medicine Making day,
Join us outside for this gathering and workshop where we’ll work with fresh, locally grown herbs from Patchwork Farms and potent dried allies from our apothecary shelves.
Together, we’ll explore plants that open the third eye and stir lucid dreams — like mugwort and other visioning herbs — helping us expand beyond fear and fixed beliefs.
You’ll learn about their medicinal and spiritual uses, how to craft a head wash for clarity and insight, and blend your own formulas and tools to invite deeper dreaming, creative insight and freer imaginations.
This is a mutual aid, sustainable space — everyone contributes to the circle. Please bring at least one offering: recycled jars with lids, high-proof alcohol -for tincture making (vodka or rum), honey, vinegar, or spring water.
LITANIES FOR SURVIVAL: MOBILE Library + REading Room
The Honeycomb Network x Rootwork Gallery co-curated free community library and reading room.
A liberatory learning space where the reading of diverse narratives and critical histories by marginalized voices is encouraged rather than censored and stifled. Here we celebrate writing, reading, and sharing of literature as a form of resistance. cultivating community learning, expanding language, and cultural exchange in Chicago.
Together we are creating capsule collections across the city!
Stay tuned for the unveiling of where our libraries will live!
PUERTO RICAN HERBALISM GATHERING
The Honeycomb Network X Yucayeke Farms come together to offer the first-ever gathering that centers Boricuas on the island and across the diaspora carrying recipes, plant knowledge, spiritual traditions, connections to the land and cultural remembrance.
For three days, we will converge online to remember what our ancestors knew: our healing is inseparable from the land, our sovereignty is tied to our food, and our future depends on regenerative and collective stewardship of earth, the plants and one another.
We will connect over:
Herbalism practices and knowledge rooted in ancestral wisdom
Land stewardship on and off the island and ecological care
Traditional foodways, recipes and Puerto Rican food as medicine
Our spiritual practices, ceremonies and ancestral connections
Preserving and continuing traditions for generations to come
A space to create and thrive
Designed by creatives for creatives, we are an ever-evolving space for your work and your soul to flourish. From nature-inspired biophilic co-working/creation space, to thoughtfully curated workshops, classes and events, to wellness services and a virtual hive of digital offerings. May you find what you need behind our doors.
A space for BIPOC TO BE CENTERED
Founded by a Boricua queer woman, we are a space for BIPOC creative entrepreneurs to thrive. We know the reality of limited spaces created for us by us, we have felt the impact of segregation used as a strategic tool to divide and decentralize our collective power and brilliance. — this is our solution. This is our offering.
A space to root and sustain
Our location in Humboldt Park’s Barrio Boriken neighborhood solidifies our collective place in Chicago, This is a movement of self sustainability. It is also radical in its purpose to stretch its branches and reach across the city to other communities of color and intentionally co-create thoughtfully and collaboratively.
