MILLION DOLLAR HONEY
$1,000,000
Why the high price?
It takes about 11,350 hours of bee labor to make an 8-ounce jar of honey, and if those bees were paid a typical San Francisco tech salary ($200K annually, or $95 an hour), one jar would cost a little over one million dollars.
We created Million Dollar Honey to start a conversation about the tech industry's relationship with local biodiversity. Bees are a critical part of our urban ecosystem, but in a city that's more interested in seed funding than seed planting, their contributions tend to be overlooked.
Fortunately, local organizations like Friends of the Urban Forest are doing the important work of planting and maintaining the street trees that bees — and people — need in order to thrive.
MILLION DOLLAR HONEY
$1,000,000
Why the high price?
It takes about 11,350 hours of bee labor to make an 8-ounce jar of honey, and if those bees were paid a typical San Francisco tech salary ($200K annually, or $95 an hour), one jar would cost a little over one million dollars.
We created Million Dollar Honey to start a conversation about the tech industry's relationship with local biodiversity. Bees are a critical part of our urban ecosystem, but in a city that's more interested in seed funding than seed planting, their contributions tend to be overlooked.
Fortunately, local organizations like Friends of the Urban Forest are doing the important work of planting and maintaining the street trees that bees — and people — need in order to thrive.
Support Friends of the Urban Forest
It takes about 11,350 hours of bee labor to make an 8-ounce jar of honey, and if those bees were paid a typical San Francisco tech salary ($200K annually, or $95 an hour), one jar would cost a little over one million dollars.
We created Million Dollar Honey to start a conversation about the tech industry's relationship with local biodiversity. Bees are a critical part of our urban ecosystem, but in a city that's more interested in seed funding than seed planting, their contributions tend to be overlooked.
Fortunately, local organizations like Friends of the Urban Forest are doing the important work of planting and maintaining the street trees that bees — and people — need in order to thrive.
Support Friends of the Urban Forest
