Worker Co-ops
This type of business is owned and run by the people who work there.
What is a worker cooperative?
These insects are responsible for pollination and making honey.
What are bees?
This process turns food scraps into nutrient-rich soil.
What is composting?
This is the sweet substance bees make from nectar.
What is honey?
This music genre, created in Washington, D.C., is known for live percussion and call-and-response.
What is go-go music?
In a worker co-op, each worker usually has this equal power in decision-making.
What is one vote?
The leader of a bee colony who lays eggs.
What is the queen bee?
These materials include things like fruit peels and vegetable scraps.
What are greens?
Beekeepers remove this wax layer before extracting honey.
What are wax cappings?
This DC neighborhood is known for its deep roots in Black culture and history, often called “Black Broadway.”
What is U Street?
This is the term for sharing profits among worker-owners.
What is profit-sharing?
These structures made of wax store honey and house larvae.
What are honeycombs?
Dry leaves and cardboard are examples of these compost materials.
What are browns?
This machine spins frames to pull honey out using force.
What is a honey extractor?
The only teacher to win the overall Friendship Teacher of the Year for Tech Prep?
Who is Ms. Lott?
Worker co-ops are often seen as more fair because they reduce this type of inequality.
What is income inequality?
Beekeepers use this protective clothing item to avoid stings.
What are bee suits?
Compost needs this to help microorganisms break down materials faster.
What is oxygen?
After extraction, honey is often passed through this to remove debris.
What is a strainer/filter?
The academy at Tech Prep with the most students.
What is the Academy of Urban Ecology?
This principle means decisions are made by the group rather than a boss.
What is democratic management?
This behavior happens when a colony splits and forms a new hive.
What is swarming?
This ratio of carbon-rich “browns” to nitrogen-rich “greens” helps compost break down efficiently and avoid bad odors.
What is 3:1, browns to greens?
The name of the board used to get bees out of the hive so that you can collect the honey.
What is a fume board?
What is over $200,000?