Grill Thrills

Try these honey-kissed kabob recipes to spice up your grilling game

Late summer and early fall are the perfect times to fire up the grill, especially when you’re cooking up a variety of kabobs that include our favorite ingredient: honey!

We’ve gathered three of our go-to kabob recipes for your grilling pleasure. Try one, try them all – and enjoy end-of-summer grilling with your family and friends.

Honey BBQ Chicken Skewers

Our Honey BBQ Chicken Skewers are packed with flavor and can be ready in just 20 minutes, making them a must-try.

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup Sue Bee® honey
• 4 chicken breasts
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 tsp red pepper flakes
• 1 tsp Dijon mustard
• 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• Cilantro for garnish

Directions

• Cut chicken into small pieces, about 1 ½-inch cubes.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together all the other ingredients. Add chicken (there should be enough marinade to cover the chicken).
• Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate marinade for at least two hours.
• Fire up the grill.
• Thread chicken (five pieces) on skewers. Save the leftover marinade.
• Place skewers on grill and turn every couple of minutes while brushing leftover marinade on the chicken. Grill until chicken is cooked through.
• Garnish with cilantro and serve.

Sweet and Spicy Shrimp Kabobs

Put some shrimp on the barbie! And make them sweet and spicy with this tasty recipe.

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup Sue Bee® honey
• 1 tbsp minced canned chipotle chile in adobo
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1/2 tsp kosher salt
• 1 lb large shrimp
• 2 tbsp minced fresh cilantro

Directions

• In a large bowl, combine the Sue Bee® honey, chile pepper, garlic and salt.
• Add the shrimp and toss to coat. Cover and marinate at room temperature for 20 minutes, or in the refrigerator for one hour.
• Remove shrimp from the marinade and discard any remaining marinade.
• Thread the shrimp through the tail and head onto small metal skewers or soaked wooden skewers (two or three per shrimp per skewer). Strong rosemary stems are good to use as skewers, too.
• Grill over direct, high heat for two to four minutes, turning once halfway through grilling time. Arrange skewers on a serving dish and sprinkle with cilantro.

Honey Veggie Kabobs

For this fresh and healthy grilled side dish, you’ll need zucchini, squash, mushrooms, red onion, cherry tomatoes and green bell peppers.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of Sue Bee® honey
• 1/3 cup of olive oil
• 1 1/2 tsp of dried basil
• 3/4 tsp dried oregano
• 1/8 tsp of ground black pepper
• Veggies: Try zucchini, squash, mushrooms, red onion, cherry tomatoes and green bell peppers

Directions

Slice the vegetables into one-inch slices, keep the mushrooms and cherry tomatoes whole and make chunks out of the red onion.

Mix the honey, olive oil, basil, oregano and ground black pepper and warm in a small saucepan while threading the vegetables on the skewers. Preheat the grill to medium heat, and lightly oil grate. Brush the honey-spiked marinade over the vegetable skewers and grill until lightly charred (10 to 15 minutes).

A Hive of Five

Meet Sioux Honey beekeeper Will Nissen of Minot, ND

Five Star Honey is truly a family business, named after Will Nissen, his wife Peggy, and their three boys – Matt, Levi and Evan – who are all actively involved in day-to-day operations. Every morning, the family meets for what Will calls the “board meeting,” where they map out their plans for the day.

Will is pleasantly surprised that all three of his boys have followed him into the honey business.

“I figured one of them would stick around, for sure. But when you send them off to college, and they get degrees, maybe they would want to step out in the big new world,” says Will.  “But I think they can see that there’s a future in bees, and it’s a good, solid future.”

Will got his start in beekeeping through fate – being in the right place at the right time. His construction job had ended, and he was at the unemployment office when a beekeeper called in looking for a hand building a wall and other odd jobs.

“He said, ‘I’m looking for somebody to help me pull honey. I don’t know if you’re strong enough.’ You didn’t have to tell me twice. I’ve never been laid off since,” Will said.

Will spent several years learning the ins and outs of the bee business from his mentors.   

“There’s a lot of ways to run bees, and a lot of ways to make it work” he says. 

For example, beekeepers traditionally paint their hives white – it’s the classic look we’re all familiar with. Five Star’s hives, however, are a rainbow of colors, like a field of Easter eggs. That’s because Will saves money by buying mistinted paint at the local hardware store, using whatever color is available. 

“I never met a bee that gave a darn what color the hive was,” he says, laughing.

Over the years, Will has developed a patient approach. 

“The first thing you do when you open the lid on a beehive is just listen. Just look at the bees and listen. You can tell a lot by the sound, just the way the bees are moving,” he said.

“Some people can never work bees, because their temperament’s not right. You’ve got to be really relaxed, just smooth. You know, it’s just like a rhythm with them … I work for the bees, and the bees work for me.” 

It’s clear, he respects his bees. “They’re just amazing insects. Even after 40-some years, I learn something new all the time.”

Will loves every aspect of his chosen career, despite the hard work and long hours.

“You gotta have fun,” he says. “If you don’t like what you’re doing, don’t do it. You start getting in the 12-, 16-hour days, it’ll wear you down. But you always know in the back of your head, it’s not forever. You’re going to just have to get through it.”

In a typical summer day, Will’s sons and their crew will drive 200 miles or more, visiting bee yards northwest and southeast from their base in Minot, ND. 

Largely agricultural, the northern prairie is rich with the kinds of flowers that bees use to produce top-notch honey – alfalfa, sweet clover, canola, sunflowers and more. North Dakota’s warm days and cool nights are conducive for nectar production in these plants.

But come winter, the harsh northern climate is too much for the honeybees, and so the Nissens load their hives onto trucks for the 1,700-mile drive to California, where the bees go to work pollinating that state’s expansive almond orchards.

“The hardest part of the job is going to California for months at a time,” said Will’s son, Matt. “The family stays here in North Dakota, and we go with the bees. The physical work stuff is probably the easiest, but being away from home, that’s hard.”

But the family knows the end result is worth all of the effort.

“I like it when I see people in the grocery store who actually take a bottle of honey and hold it up just to look at it,” Will says. “I love to turn it upside down, just to see how fast the bubble goes. I’m just amazed at how many bees it took for that honey to get from the hive to that store shelf.”

 Ask him about the Sioux Honey Association Co-op, and he’s unequivocal. 

“The co-op is probably the best thing that happened to Five Star Honey Farms. We’re proud of our product, and what we put out. With Sioux, we trust where that honey’s going.”

100 Years of Beekeeping

Third-generation beekeeper Rob Buhmann carries on family tradition

Sioux Honey Association Co-op beekeeper members come from every corner of the United States – even a remote area in northern Montana.

Rob Buhmann, a third-generation beekeeper, lives “about 20 miles south as the crow flies from the Canadian border” in Zurich, Montana. Because he’s also the Chairman of the Board of Sioux Honey, he travels to the honey company’s Sioux City, Iowa, headquarters four times a year for meetings.

We caught up with Rob at a recent gathering of board members and, while we were there, Rob took us on a tour of the Sioux Honey bottling facility, which you can see in the video below.

A kid and his beehive smoker

Rob’s grandfather, Reinhart Buhmann, began beekeeping with his brothers, Lawrence and Clarence, in 1918. That’s 100 years of beekeeping for the Buhmanns, a tradition that Rob and his wife, Gloria – and their daughters and sons-in-law – are continuing today.

The Buhmann honey business started in Oregon, but moved to northern Montana in 1929. They shipped their hives by rail car and eventually settled in an area near Zurich, Montana, in 1937. The family has been running hives in that location ever since.

Rob was introduced to the family business early on; when he was 5, he said.

“I can remember I was with my dad and mom,” Rob recalled. “He was checking the bees and I got to get out with him and put on a veil and he handed me the smoker. As any beekeeper knows, when they hand a young kid – boy or girl – the smoker, we’re fascinated.

“I can vividly recall my father trying to get me to tone down a little bit on the smoker because I was loving working that smoker. That’s really one of my first recollections of actually going out to a bee yard.”

From there, Rob was hooked.

“It just became the natural thing that I wanted to do, and it’s what I continue to do. I enjoy the work and the challenge and everything that comes with it. I guess I never really considered doing anything else.

“And I’m honored to be able to be a third-generation beekeeper and to continue something that was started by my grandparents. It has given me the opportunity to work with them and my father, and then I had a brother that was involved in the business with me for a number of years. Now I have three daughters and sons-in-law, along with my wife, so I’m optimistic to be able to continue and pass it on.”

Growing the family business

When Rob’s grandfather moved the Buhmann honey operation to Montana, he brought with him about 150 colonies. Today, Rob has grown the business to about 3,500 colonies.

Rob runs his bees in northern Montana in the spring and summer and then takes them to California in January and February to help with the almond pollination. 

Two of Rob’s daughters, and their husbands, work in the Buhmann family with Rob and his wife, Gloria.

Joining the Sioux Honey co-op

A lot has changed since 1921, the year a handful of inspired beekeepers united to create the Sioux Honey Association Co-op. But there is one thing that hasn’t changed – Sioux Honey is still a co-op, not a corporation, and the same original goal remains: Keeping the focus on what’s best for Sioux Honey’s customers, its beekeepers and its honey.

Rob’s grandfather and father joined Sioux Honey in 1947. There were a few years in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the Buhmanns weren’t members, but they rejoined in 1974 and have been delivering honey to Sioux Honey for the past 44 consecutive years.

“That’s the special aspect of this cooperative,” Rob said. “It’s more of a family, and we all have the same goal: To provide the best, most natural and pure honey available anywhere in the world.

“We truly care about the product we’re putting on the shelf.”

Fuel for Your Brain

Three quick-and-easy snacks your kids will love

Kids not only love snacks, they need snacks to help them stay engaged during the day, especially while learning. Whether they are being taught at home or at school, kids need help keeping up their energy level. Do you know our favorite way to do that?

If you guessed “honey,” then ding, ding, ding – you win! (You totally get us.) We can’t think of a better ingredient to include in your mid-day snacks, and to prove our point we have three quick-and-easy recipes you can try. Bonus: Your kids will love them.

Peanut Butter & Honey Roll-ups

The combination of peanut butter and bananas is a textbook snack. Oh, and did we mention there’s honey, too? You can do no wrong with this tasty pick-me-up.

Ingredients

• 1 whole wheat tortilla
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup jelly (optional)
• 1/2 cup each sliced bananas and strawberries
• 1 1/2 tbsp Sue Bee® Clover Honey

Directions

Spread peanut butter evenly on tortilla. Top peanut butter with sliced bananas and strawberries. Drizzle with Sue Bee® honey. Roll gently but tightly. Cut in half, then cut each half again.

Smoothies

Yellow Smoothie

Ingredients

• 1 cup soy or almond milk
• 1 cup orange juice
• 1 cup frozen mangos
• 1 cup frozen peaches
• 1 cup frozen pineapples
• 1½ tbsp Aunt Sue’s® Raw & Unfiltered Honey

Directions

Blend all ingredients together, very slowly increasing speed from low to high. Blend for 90 seconds at high.

Green Smoothie

Ingredients

• 1¾ cup soy or almond milk
• 1 cup chopped kiwi (about 2 kiwi fruits), frozen
• 1 cup fresh baby spinach
• 1 chopped pear, frozen
• ½ chopped granny smith apple, frozen
• 1 banana, frozen
• 3 tbsp Aunt Sue’s® Raw & Unfiltered Honey

Directions

Blend all ingredients together, very slowly increasing speed from low to high. Blend for 90 seconds at high.

Red Smoothie

Ingredients

• 1¾ cup soy or almond milk
• 1/2 frozen bananas
• 1 cup frozen strawberries
• 1 cup frozen peaches
• 1 cup frozen raspberries
• 2 tbsp Aunt Sue’s® Raw & Unfiltered Honey

Directions

Blend all ingredients together, very slowly increasing speed from low to high. Blend for 90 seconds at high.

Cinnamon Honey Chex Mix

This one comes highly recommended from our resident hyper-wholesome mom who, as a long-distance runner, knows all about keeping the body full of energy. “And it tastes great!” she says.

Ingredients

• 5 cups Rice Chex Mix
• 5 cups Corn Chex Mix
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tbsp cinnamon
• 1/2 cup Sue Bee® honey
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup whole almonds (optional)

Directions

Stir together all dry ingredients in large bowl. Heat butter in saucepan until melted. Add honey. Bring to boil. Quickly pour over Chex mixture and combine. 

Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Pour into cookie sheet. Put in oven for five minutes at 350 degrees. Take out and stir Chex mixture and put back in oven for five more minutes. Cool and store in airtight container.

Care to Dance, Honey?

Get ready to move your happy feet with this sweet playlist

When we make a fresh peanut butter and honey sandwich, guess what we do? A happy dance! 

When we add honey to our spicy BBQ? Another happy dance! 

And when we use honey and olive oil to moisturize our skin? You guessed it, we dance, dance, dance.

That’s because honey gives us energy and tickles our taste buds with sweet delight. And the only reasonable thing to do is dance.

Of course, it helps if we have music. Which is why we put together this honey-inspired playlist for when we bust out our dancing shoes. From ABBA’s “Honey, Honey” and Blake Shelton’s “Honey Bee,” to Van Morrison’s “Tupelo Honey” and Diana Ross’ “Honey Boy,” this sweet playlist will help you get your honey dance on the next time you feel like toe-tappin’.

World Honey Bee Day Giveaway Rules

SIOUX HONEY ASSOCIATION CO-OP (SHAC) OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE THE CHANCES OF WINNING.

1. Eligibility: This giveaway is only open to legal residents of the United States who are 18 years or older as of the date of entry and is void where prohibited by law. Employees of SHAC, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and suppliers, (collectively the “Employees”), and immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of Employees are not eligible to participate in the giveaway. The giveaway is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

2. Agreement to Rules: By participating, the Contestant (“You”) agree to be fully unconditionally bound by these Rules, and You represent and warrant that You meet the eligibility requirements. In addition, You agree to accept the decisions of SHAC as final and binding as it relates to the giveaway and these Rules.

3. Campaign Period: Entries will be accepted online starting on August 15, 2020 and ending August 18, 2020. All online entries must be received by midnight Central Time, August 18, 2020.

4. How to Enter: To enter, You must tag a friend in the comments of the giveaway post. The entry must fulfill all giveaway requirements, as specified, to be eligible to win a prize. Entries that are incomplete or do not adhere to the rules or specifications may be disqualified at the sole discretion of SHAC. You may enter only once. You must provide the information requested. You may not enter more times than indicated by using multiple email addresses, identities, or devices in an attempt to circumvent the rules. If You use fraudulent methods or otherwise attempt to circumvent the rules, your submission may be removed from eligibility at the sole discretion of SHAC.

5. Prizes: The Winner(s) of the giveaway (the “Winner”) will receive a “Honey, I’m Home” doormat and a 40 ounce bottle of Sue Bee Clover Honey. The specifics of the prize shall be solely determined by SHAC. No cash or other prize substitution shall be permitted. No substitution of prize or request for the cash equivalent by the Winner is permitted. No transfer/assignment of prize to others is permitted unless the Winner does not respond to contact by SHAC within one week of initial contact. At that point, another Winner will be chosen. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission for SHAC to use Winner’s name, likeness, and entry for purpose of advertising and trade without further compensation, unless prohibited by law.

6. Odds: The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

7. Winner Selection and Notification: The Winner will be selected by a random drawing under the supervision of SHAC. The Winner will be notified by a comment and/or message within five (5) days following selection of the Winner. SHAC shall have no liability for the Winner’s failure to receive notices due to spam, junk email or other security settings or for the Winner’s provision of incorrect or otherwise non-functioning contact information. If the Winner cannot be contacted or is ineligible, the prize may be forfeited and an alternate Winner selected. Receipt by the Winner of the prize offered in this giveaway is conditioned upon compliance with any and all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. ANY VIOLATION OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES BY THE WINNER (AT SHAC’s SOLE DISCRETION) WILL RESULT IN THE WINNER’S DISQUALIFICATION AS THE WINNER OF THE GIVEAWAY, AND ALL PRIVILEGES AS THE WINNER WILL BE IMMEDIATELY TERMINATED.

8. Rights Granted by You: By entering this giveaway, You understand and agree that SHAC or anyone acting on behalf of SHAC and SHAC’s licensees, successors, and assigns, shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and throughout the World, without limitation, your entry, name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the giveaway, and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade, advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes without any further compensation, notice, review, or consent. By entering this content, You represent and warrant that your entry does not violate any third party’s proprietary or intellectual property rights. If your entry infringes upon the intellectual property right of another, You will be disqualified at the sole discretion of SHAC. If the content of your entry is claimed to constitute infringement of any proprietary or intellectual proprietary rights of any third party, You shall, at your sole expense, defend or settle against such claims. You shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SHAC from and against any suit, proceeding, claims, liability, loss, damage, costs or expense which SHAC may incur, suffer, or be required to pay arising out of such infringement or suspected infringement of any third party’s right.

9. Terms & Conditions: SHAC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Campaign should virus, bug, non-authorized human intervention, fraud, or other cause beyond SHAC’s control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, or proper conduct of the Campaign. In such case, SHAC may select the Winner from all eligible entries received prior to and/or after (if appropriate) the action taken by SHAC. SHAC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Campaign or website or violates these Terms & Conditions. SHAC has the right, in its sole discretion, to maintain the integrity of the Campaign, to void votes for any reason, including, but not limited to: multiple entries from the same user from different IP addresses; multiple entries from the same computer in excess of that allowed by Campaign rules; or the use of bots, macros, scripts, or other technical means for entering. Any attempt by an entrant to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Campaign may be a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such attempt be made, SHAC reserves the right to seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law.

10. Limitation of Liability: SHAC and its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers, and directors shall have no responsibility for any liability (including tax liability), illness, injury, death, loss, litigation, claim, or damage that may occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from: (i) such entrant’s participation in the Campaign and/or his/her acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of any prize or any portion thereof; (ii) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to, the malfunction of any computer, cable, network, hardware, software, or other mechanical equipment; (iii) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions, telephone, or internet service; (iv) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; (v) electronic or human error in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries.

11. Disputes: THIS GIVEAWAY IS GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF IOWA, WITHOUT RESPECT TO CONFLICT OF LAW DOCTRINES. As a condition of participating in this Campaign, participant agrees that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between the parties and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Campaign shall be resolved individually without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in Iowa having jurisdiction. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances shall participant be permitted to obtain awards for and hereby waives all rights to, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorney’s fees, other than participant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering this Campaign). Participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

12. Copy of Rules/Winners List: To obtain a copy of the Winner’s name or a copy of these Official Rules, mail your request along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: Bozell, 2215 Harney St, Omaha, NE 68102. Requests must be received no later than August 18, 2020, 12:00 p.m. CST.

13. Sponsor: The Sponsor of the giveaway is Sioux Honey Association Co-op, 301 Lewis Blvd, Sioux City, IA 51101.

14. Facebook: The Campaign hosted by SHAC is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook.

Honey When It’s Sunny Giveaway Rules

SIOUX HONEY ASSOCIATION CO-OP (SHAC) OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE THE CHANCES OF WINNING.

1. Eligibility: This giveaway is only open to legal residents of the United States who are 18 years or older as of the date of entry and is void where prohibited by law. Employees of SHAC, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and suppliers, (collectively the “Employees”), and immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of Employees are not eligible to participate in the giveaway. The giveaway is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

2. Agreement to Rules: By participating, the Contestant (“You”) agree to be fully unconditionally bound by these Rules, and You represent and warrant that You meet the eligibility requirements. In addition, You agree to accept the decisions of SHAC as final and binding as it relates to the giveaway and these Rules.

3. Campaign Period: Entries will be accepted online starting on August 3, 2020 and ending August 6, 2020. All online entries must be received by midnight Central Time, August 6, 2020.

4. How to Enter: To enter, You must reply with a comment on the giveaway post and post a photo with #HoneyWhenItsSunny for an extra entry. The entry must fulfill all giveaway requirements, as specified, to be eligible to win a prize. Entries that are incomplete or do not adhere to the rules or specifications may be disqualified at the sole discretion of SHAC. You may enter only once. You must provide the information requested. You may not enter more times than indicated by using multiple email addresses, identities, or devices in an attempt to circumvent the rules. If You use fraudulent methods or otherwise attempt to circumvent the rules, your submission may be removed from eligibility at the sole discretion of SHAC.

5. Prizes: The Winner(s) of the giveaway (the “Winner”) will receive a bottle of Sue Bee Clover Honey and a bottle of Aunt Sue’s Raw & Unfiltered Honey. The specifics of the prize shall be solely determined by SHAC. No cash or other prize substitution shall be permitted. No substitution of prize or request for the cash equivalent by the Winner is permitted. No transfer/assignment of prize to others is permitted unless the Winner does not respond to contact by SHAC within one week of initial contact. At that point, another Winner will be chosen. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission for SHAC to use Winner’s name, likeness, and entry for purpose of advertising and trade without further compensation, unless prohibited by law.

6. Odds: The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

7. Winner Selection and Notification: The Winner will be selected by a random drawing under the supervision of SHAC. The Winner will be notified by a comment and/or message within five (5) days following selection of the Winner. SHAC shall have no liability for the Winner’s failure to receive notices due to spam, junk email or other security settings or for the Winner’s provision of incorrect or otherwise non-functioning contact information. If the Winner cannot be contacted or is ineligible, the prize may be forfeited and an alternate Winner selected. Receipt by the Winner of the prize offered in this giveaway is conditioned upon compliance with any and all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. ANY VIOLATION OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES BY THE WINNER (AT SHAC’s SOLE DISCRETION) WILL RESULT IN THE WINNER’S DISQUALIFICATION AS THE WINNER OF THE GIVEAWAY, AND ALL PRIVILEGES AS THE WINNER WILL BE IMMEDIATELY TERMINATED.

8. Rights Granted by You: By entering this giveaway, You understand and agree that SHAC or anyone acting on behalf of SHAC and SHAC’s licensees, successors, and assigns, shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and throughout the World, without limitation, your entry, name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the giveaway, and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade, advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes without any further compensation, notice, review, or consent. By entering this content, You represent and warrant that your entry does not violate any third party’s proprietary or intellectual property rights. If your entry infringes upon the intellectual property right of another, You will be disqualified at the sole discretion of SHAC. If the content of your entry is claimed to constitute infringement of any proprietary or intellectual proprietary rights of any third party, You shall, at your sole expense, defend or settle against such claims. You shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SHAC from and against any suit, proceeding, claims, liability, loss, damage, costs or expense which SHAC may incur, suffer, or be required to pay arising out of such infringement or suspected infringement of any third party’s right.

9. Terms & Conditions: SHAC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Campaign should virus, bug, non-authorized human intervention, fraud, or other cause beyond SHAC’s control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, or proper conduct of the Campaign. In such case, SHAC may select the Winner from all eligible entries received prior to and/or after (if appropriate) the action taken by SHAC. SHAC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Campaign or website or violates these Terms & Conditions. SHAC has the right, in its sole discretion, to maintain the integrity of the Campaign, to void votes for any reason, including, but not limited to: multiple entries from the same user from different IP addresses; multiple entries from the same computer in excess of that allowed by Campaign rules; or the use of bots, macros, scripts, or other technical means for entering. Any attempt by an entrant to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Campaign may be a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such attempt be made, SHAC reserves the right to seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law.

10. Limitation of Liability: SHAC and its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers, and directors shall have no responsibility for any liability (including tax liability), illness, injury, death, loss, litigation, claim, or damage that may occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from: (i) such entrant’s participation in the Campaign and/or his/her acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of any prize or any portion thereof; (ii) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to, the malfunction of any computer, cable, network, hardware, software, or other mechanical equipment; (iii) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions, telephone, or internet service; (iv) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; (v) electronic or human error in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries.

11. Disputes: THIS GIVEAWAY IS GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF IOWA, WITHOUT RESPECT TO CONFLICT OF LAW DOCTRINES. As a condition of participating in this Campaign, participant agrees that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between the parties and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Campaign shall be resolved individually without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in Iowa having jurisdiction. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances shall participant be permitted to obtain awards for and hereby waives all rights to, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorney’s fees, other than participant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering this Campaign). Participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

12. Copy of Rules/Winners List: To obtain a copy of the Winner’s name or a copy of these Official Rules, mail your request along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: Bozell, 2215 Harney St, Omaha, NE 68102. Requests must be received no later than August 6, 2020, 12:00 p.m. CST.

13. Sponsor: The Sponsor of the giveaway is Sioux Honey Association Co-op, 301 Lewis Blvd, Sioux City, IA 51101.

14. Facebook: The Campaign hosted by SHAC is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook.

Bee’s Knees Honey Giveaway Rules

SIOUX HONEY ASSOCIATION CO-OP (SHAC) OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE THE CHANCES OF WINNING.

1. Eligibility: This giveaway is only open to legal residents of the United States who are 18 years or older as of the date of entry and is void where prohibited by law. Employees of SHAC, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and suppliers, (collectively the “Employees”), and immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of Employees are not eligible to participate in the giveaway. The giveaway is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

2. Agreement to Rules: By participating, the Contestant (“You”) agree to be fully unconditionally bound by these Rules, and You represent and warrant that You meet the eligibility requirements. In addition, You agree to accept the decisions of SHAC as final and binding as it relates to the giveaway and these Rules.

3. Campaign Period: Entries will be accepted online starting on July 10, 2020 and ending July 13, 2020. All online entries must be received by midnight Central Time, July 13, 2020.

4. How to Enter: To enter, You must share a photo of you and a friend in the comments section of the giveaway post and tag the friend, and reshare the post to receive an extra entry (Facebook), retweet the giveaway tweet, and tag a friend for their name to be entered (Twitter), or tag a friend in the comments section of the giveaway post, and repost the giveaway post to your Instagram feed or story for extra entries (Instagram). The entry must fulfill all giveaway requirements, as specified, to be eligible to win a prize. Entries that are incomplete or do not adhere to the rules or specifications may be disqualified at the sole discretion of SHAC. You may enter only once. You must provide the information requested. You may not enter more times than indicated by using multiple email addresses, identities, or devices in an attempt to circumvent the rules. If You use fraudulent methods or otherwise attempt to circumvent the rules, your submission may be removed from eligibility at the sole discretion of SHAC.

5. Prizes: The Winner(s) of the giveaway (the “Winner”) will receive the following: Aunt Sue’s Raw & Unfiltered Honey, Sue Bee Clover Honey, Sue Bee Spun Honey, “Let’s Do This” Coffee Mug, “Yaaasss” Tea Towel, Coconut Flower Hand Cream and a Letter Board. The specifics of the prize shall be solely determined by SHAC. No cash or other prize substitution shall be permitted. No substitution of prize or request for the cash equivalent by the Winner is permitted. No transfer/assignment of prize to others is permitted unless the Winner does not respond to contact by SHAC within one week of initial contact. At that point, another Winner will be chosen. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission for SHAC to use Winner’s name, likeness, and entry for purpose of advertising and trade without further compensation, unless prohibited by law.

6. Odds: The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

7. Winner Selection and Notification: The Winner will be selected by a random drawing under the supervision of SHAC. The Winner will be notified by a comment and/or message within five (5) days following selection of the Winner. SHAC shall have no liability for the Winner’s failure to receive notices due to spam, junk email or other security settings or for the Winner’s provision of incorrect or otherwise non-functioning contact information. If the Winner cannot be contacted or is ineligible, the prize may be forfeited and an alternate Winner selected. Receipt by the Winner of the prize offered in this giveaway is conditioned upon compliance with any and all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. ANY VIOLATION OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES BY THE WINNER (AT SHAC’s SOLE DISCRETION) WILL RESULT IN THE WINNER’S DISQUALIFICATION AS THE WINNER OF THE GIVEAWAY, AND ALL PRIVILEGES AS THE WINNER WILL BE IMMEDIATELY TERMINATED.

8. Rights Granted by You: By entering this giveaway, You understand and agree that SHAC or anyone acting on behalf of SHAC and SHAC’s licensees, successors, and assigns, shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and throughout the World, without limitation, your entry, name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the giveaway, and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade, advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes without any further compensation, notice, review, or consent. By entering this content, You represent and warrant that your entry does not violate any third party’s proprietary or intellectual property rights. If your entry infringes upon the intellectual property right of another, You will be disqualified at the sole discretion of SHAC. If the content of your entry is claimed to constitute infringement of any proprietary or intellectual proprietary rights of any third party, You shall, at your sole expense, defend or settle against such claims. You shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SHAC from and against any suit, proceeding, claims, liability, loss, damage, costs or expense which SHAC may incur, suffer, or be required to pay arising out of such infringement or suspected infringement of any third party’s right.

9. Terms & Conditions: SHAC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Campaign should virus, bug, non-authorized human intervention, fraud, or other cause beyond SHAC’s control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, or proper conduct of the Campaign. In such case, SHAC may select the Winner from all eligible entries received prior to and/or after (if appropriate) the action taken by SHAC. SHAC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Campaign or website or violates these Terms & Conditions. SHAC has the right, in its sole discretion, to maintain the integrity of the Campaign, to void votes for any reason, including, but not limited to: multiple entries from the same user from different IP addresses; multiple entries from the same computer in excess of that allowed by Campaign rules; or the use of bots, macros, scripts, or other technical means for entering. Any attempt by an entrant to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Campaign may be a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such attempt be made, SHAC reserves the right to seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law.

10. Limitation of Liability: SHAC and its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers, and directors shall have no responsibility for any liability (including tax liability), illness, injury, death, loss, litigation, claim, or damage that may occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from: (i) such entrant’s participation in the Campaign and/or his/her acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of any prize or any portion thereof; (ii) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to, the malfunction of any computer, cable, network, hardware, software, or other mechanical equipment; (iii) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions, telephone, or internet service; (iv) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; (v) electronic or human error in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries.

11. Disputes: THIS GIVEAWAY IS GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF IOWA, WITHOUT RESPECT TO CONFLICT OF LAW DOCTRINES. As a condition of participating in this Campaign, participant agrees that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between the parties and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Campaign shall be resolved individually without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in Iowa having jurisdiction. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances shall participant be permitted to obtain awards for and hereby waives all rights to, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorney’s fees, other than participant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering this Campaign). Participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

12. Copy of Rules/Winners List: To obtain a copy of the Winner’s name or a copy of these Official Rules, mail your request along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: Bozell, 2215 Harney St, Omaha, NE 68102. Requests must be received no later than July 13, 2020, 12:00 p.m. CST.

13. Sponsor: The Sponsor of the giveaway is Sioux Honey Association Co-op, 301 Lewis Blvd, Sioux City, IA 51101.

14. Facebook: The Campaign hosted by SHAC is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook.

Guess the State Giveaway Rules

SIOUX HONEY ASSOCIATION CO-OP (SHAC) OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE THE CHANCES OF WINNING.

1. Eligibility: This giveaway is only open to legal residents of the United States who are 18 years or older as of the date of entry and is void where prohibited by law. Employees of SHAC, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and suppliers, (collectively the “Employees”), and immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of Employees are not eligible to participate in the giveaway. The giveaway is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

2. Agreement to Rules: By participating, the Contestant (“You”) agree to be fully unconditionally bound by these Rules, and You represent and warrant that You meet the eligibility requirements. In addition, You agree to accept the decisions of SHAC as final and binding as it relates to the giveaway and these Rules.

3. Campaign Period: Entries will be accepted online starting on July 20, 2020 and ending July 23, 2020. All online entries must be received by midnight Central Time, July 23, 2020.

4. How to Enter: To enter, You must correctly guess the state the beekeeper is located in. The entry must fulfill all giveaway requirements, as specified, to be eligible to win a prize. Entries that are incomplete or do not adhere to the rules or specifications may be disqualified at the sole discretion of SHAC. You may enter only once. You must provide the information requested. You may not enter more times than indicated by using multiple email addresses, identities, or devices in an attempt to circumvent the rules. If You use fraudulent methods or otherwise attempt to circumvent the rules, your submission may be removed from eligibility at the sole discretion of SHAC.

5. Prizes: The Winner(s) of the giveaway (the “Winner”) will receive one bottle of Sue Bee honey. The specifics of the prize shall be solely determined by SHAC. No cash or other prize substitution shall be permitted. No substitution of prize or request for the cash equivalent by the Winner is permitted. No transfer/assignment of prize to others is permitted unless the Winner does not respond to contact by SHAC within one week of initial contact. At that point, another Winner will be chosen. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission for SHAC to use Winner’s name, likeness, and entry for purpose of advertising and trade without further compensation, unless prohibited by law.

6. Odds: The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

7. Winner Selection and Notification: The Winner will be selected by a random drawing under the supervision of SHAC. The Winner will be notified by a comment and/or message within five (5) days following selection of the Winner. SHAC shall have no liability for the Winner’s failure to receive notices due to spam, junk email or other security settings or for the Winner’s provision of incorrect or otherwise non-functioning contact information. If the Winner cannot be contacted or is ineligible, the prize may be forfeited and an alternate Winner selected. Receipt by the Winner of the prize offered in this giveaway is conditioned upon compliance with any and all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. ANY VIOLATION OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES BY THE WINNER (AT SHAC’s SOLE DISCRETION) WILL RESULT IN THE WINNER’S DISQUALIFICATION AS THE WINNER OF THE GIVEAWAY, AND ALL PRIVILEGES AS THE WINNER WILL BE IMMEDIATELY TERMINATED.

8. Rights Granted by You: By entering this giveaway, You understand and agree that SHAC or anyone acting on behalf of SHAC and SHAC’s licensees, successors, and assigns, shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and throughout the World, without limitation, your entry, name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the giveaway, and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade, advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes without any further compensation, notice, review, or consent. By entering this content, You represent and warrant that your entry does not violate any third party’s proprietary or intellectual property rights. If your entry infringes upon the intellectual property right of another, You will be disqualified at the sole discretion of SHAC. If the content of your entry is claimed to constitute infringement of any proprietary or intellectual proprietary rights of any third party, You shall, at your sole expense, defend or settle against such claims. You shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SHAC from and against any suit, proceeding, claims, liability, loss, damage, costs or expense which SHAC may incur, suffer, or be required to pay arising out of such infringement or suspected infringement of any third party’s right.

9. Terms & Conditions: SHAC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Campaign should virus, bug, non-authorized human intervention, fraud, or other cause beyond SHAC’s control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, or proper conduct of the Campaign. In such case, SHAC may select the Winner from all eligible entries received prior to and/or after (if appropriate) the action taken by SHAC. SHAC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Campaign or website or violates these Terms & Conditions. SHAC has the right, in its sole discretion, to maintain the integrity of the Campaign, to void votes for any reason, including, but not limited to: multiple entries from the same user from different IP addresses; multiple entries from the same computer in excess of that allowed by Campaign rules; or the use of bots, macros, scripts, or other technical means for entering. Any attempt by an entrant to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Campaign may be a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such attempt be made, SHAC reserves the right to seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law.

10. Limitation of Liability: SHAC and its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers, and directors shall have no responsibility for any liability (including tax liability), illness, injury, death, loss, litigation, claim, or damage that may occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from: (i) such entrant’s participation in the Campaign and/or his/her acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of any prize or any portion thereof; (ii) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to, the malfunction of any computer, cable, network, hardware, software, or other mechanical equipment; (iii) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions, telephone, or internet service; (iv) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; (v) electronic or human error in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries.

11. Disputes: THIS GIVEAWAY IS GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF IOWA, WITHOUT RESPECT TO CONFLICT OF LAW DOCTRINES. As a condition of participating in this Campaign, participant agrees that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between the parties and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Campaign shall be resolved individually without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in Iowa having jurisdiction. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances shall participant be permitted to obtain awards for and hereby waives all rights to, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorney’s fees, other than participant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering this Campaign). Participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

12. Copy of Rules/Winners List: To obtain a copy of the Winner’s name or a copy of these Official Rules, mail your request along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: Bozell, 2215 Harney St, Omaha, NE 68102. Requests must be received no later than July 23, 2020, 12:00 p.m. CST.

13. Sponsor: The Sponsor of the giveaway is Sioux Honey Association Co-op, 301 Lewis Blvd, Sioux City, IA 51101.

14. Facebook: The Campaign hosted by SHAC is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook.

Aunt Sue’s Candied Bacon

Ingredients

2 tbsp Aunt Sue’s® Raw & Unfiltered Honey

2 tbsp apple cider vinegar

1 tbsp sriracha

8 slices thick-cut bacon

Salt and pepper

Directions

Have Bees, Will Travel

Sioux Honey® beekeeper is as busy as his bees

When you think of a “gypsy,” you might imagine someone dressed in boho chic clothing and traveling down the highway in a colorful wagon. Not someone wearing beekeeping gear and driving a flatbed truck full of beehives.

But “gypsy” is how many commercial beekeepers describe their often-nomadic lives.

“You kind of have to be half-gypsy to be in this business,” says second-generation beekeeper Ryan Thomas, whose Texas-based family members are longtime members of the Sioux Honey® Association Co-op. “It’s best to keep a bag packed, because it seems like you’re always on the move.”

Like a lot of Sioux Honey beekeepers, Ryan and his family move their honeybees from season to season. In the spring, their bees are feasting on tallow trees in the Liberty, Texas, area. By June, Ryan and his crew are on the road to North Dakota where bees forage on canola, clover and alfalfa through the August harvest season.

From North Dakota, they move on to Idaho where their bees rest in a storage area so they can build up strength before moving on to California to help pollinate almonds in January and February. Then it’s back to Texas to rebuild hives and start the spring honey production all over again.

It’s a lot of traveling, but being a beekeeper is all Ryan has ever wanted to do. 

“I’ve been going to the bee yard ever since I was potty trained,” he says. 

The joys of beekeeping

Ryan’s father, Don, and Don’s uncle began beekeeping in 1972 in Highmore, South Dakota. Eventually, they went their separate ways, and Don moved to Canada. He began a beekeeping operation on his own, before moving to Liberty, Texas, in 1995.

Ryan was just a toddler when he started going with his dad to the beeyard. 

“I was his little helper, holding the smoker. That’s usually what the kids start with – the smoker. It’s the coolest thing. And that’s what we did every day. I’ve been in bee yards ever since.”

Traveling can be tough on the family. Ryan says he missed his fair share of high school football games, but his family often travels with him. And being able to provide a great life for his wife and children has made the time away worth every drop of sweet honey he has collected.

And now his son, Jared, is following Ryan into the honey business. Jared will be the third generation of the Thomas family to make beekeeping a career. 

“That’s always been my dream to pass it along. You work all your life to build it up. Not to sell it, but to pass it onto the next generation. Hopefully he takes it and runs with it,” Ryan says.

So what makes being a beekeeper so special?

“Being outside all day – this is my office. I love being outside and seeing the hives progress and grow in the spring. Springtime is probably my favorite; everything’s growing and rebounding and the hope for the new year is there, you know?

“As a farmer, it’s always about next year and hoping for a big, plentiful crop.”

Joining the Sioux Honey co-op

Ryan and his father have been members of the Sioux Honey co-op for many years. For their family – which is among the top producers in the 200+ beekeeper cooperative – being a part of the co-op allows them to focus on what they love doing most.  Ryan says, “That’s important for us so we can concentrate on keeping our hives healthy and robust, and producing honey.

“At the same time, we have a sense of ownership with the co-op. With Sioux Honey, you feel like you are a part of something. Part of a group that started almost 100 years ago. That’s what makes our honey so special.”

Always building hives

Ryan has several employees who help him keep his hives healthy and strong all year long. Like most commercial beekeepers, Ryan has had to rebuild his colonies each year. In the past 10 to 15 years, on average, most commercial beekeepers have been losing between 20% and 35% of their hives each season. The loss of forgeable land, the pesky varroa mite and extreme weather are some of the reasons colonies of bees are lost.

“There’s been a lot of changes over the years, a lot of the monocropping (when farmers grow a single crop year after year on the same land, without rotating other crops) and that has hurt,” Ryan says. “There’s just not the flowers there used to be in a lot of places. Farmers have gotten really good at taking care of weeds, and weeds are a beekeeper’s friend.”

And like most beekeepers, Ryan is concerned with the honeybee population continuing to be as strong as it has always been.

“Without bees to pollinate so many of our crops … that’s just not a position we want to be in,” he says.

Which makes landowners whose properties provide the wildflowers and foliage that honeybees need in order to forage all the more valuable.

“They are so important to us; they’re what makes our business,” Ryan says. “Without them, we don’t have a place to put our bees. We’re helping them, too, by pollinating their crops and enhancing their yields. But yeah, they are essential to us, and they are one of the beekeeper’s biggest assets. Most of the landowners we have, we’ve had for 20 years or more. We’re very lucky.”

The Great American Picnic

How to make a dazzling dining display for the 4th of July

America wouldn’t be America without the freedom to have a picnic. It’s in the Constitution, after all: “A well-regulated cookout, being necessary to the joy of the free State, the right of the people to keep and bear picnics, shall not be infringed.”

OK, so maybe that’s not in the Constitution, but it should be. What’s more red, white and blue than a picnic? That’s why the Fourth of July is one of the best days of the year to celebrate our friends and family by sharing a meal in the great outdoors.

The best part? You can show your patriotism and your support for the USA honeybee and beekeeper families by cooking up a delicious spread with recipes that all include a very important ingredient: Honey – Sue Bee® or Aunt Sue’s® Raw & Unfiltered, it’s your freedom of choice.

As a collective of more than 200 multi-generational beekeeping families, the Sioux Honey® Association Co-op knows how important it is to be together on holidays whenever possible. And when our families gather for an outdoor feast, we bring a variety of our favorite homemade meals.

Need some ideas? If so, you’ve come to the right place! We have a variety of dishes that will give a zip-boom-bang to your Fourth of July picnic. 

Honey Soy Pulled Pork Sandwiches

Super saucy and perfect for summer cookouts. These tasty slow-cooked morsels of yumminess will go fast – so be sure to make plenty. Try the recipe.

Honey Corn on the Cob

Corn on the cob hits its prime just in time for July 4 harvesting, which is why it’s an absolute must-have at Independence Day picnics. And if you’re looking for a new twist, try this recipe.

Honey Dijon Pasta Salad

Side dishes make the picnics go ‘round, and this pasta salad goes great with pretty much any backyard BBQ item you can imagine. Try it out this year.

Honey Lime Rainbow Fruit Salad

Another mainstay at summer picnics is the fruit salad. And we’ve given the popular dish a fresh spin with a honey-lime twist. Get the recipe.

Sweet Honey Cornbread

Light, airy and an absolute delight for your taste buds. That’s how we describe our Sweet Honey Cornbread. It’s definitely love at first sight – and taste! Try it out.

Sue Bee® Honey Lemonade and Honey Peach Iced Tea

Cool, refreshing and born for summer. These are two invigorating drinks that will be a hit at any Fourth of July picnic. Mix up a batch of both – find the lemonade here and the peach iced tea here.

Bee Curious

Dear Sioux Honey: Can my dog eat honey? Is crystallized honey edible? How many honeybees are in the world?

Each month, we get all sorts of questions at Sioux Honey®, like:

How long do bees live? 

Is honey kosher? 

When can babies start eating honey? 

What kinds of food do honeybees pollinate?

We love receiving these questions. And we really love answering them. When it comes to honeybees and honey – and the Sioux Honey® beekeeper families that collect it – the questions and fascinating answers are endless.

‘Good things come in small packages’

How small? Well, a single honeybee makes 1/12 of a teaspoon in its lifespan. That’s tiny! Picture an M&M. Now, bite it in half. OK, now bite that in half. That’s about the volume of honey that a bee produces – IN ITS WHOLE LIFE!

Think about how many honeybees it takes to make a single pound of Sue Bee® honey or Aunt Sue’s® Raw & Unfiltered Honey. Consider:

• The average worker honeybee (females) lives for about six weeks. The drones (males) live a few weeks. And the queen has a lifespan of two to three years, on average.
• It would take 12 honeybees 72 weeks (six weeks each) to make a single teaspoon of honey.
• There are 64 teaspoons in a pound of honey. That’s 768 honeybees working 4,608 weeks (six weeks each) to make a pound of honey. 
• To put that into further perspective, consider that Sioux Honey’s 200+ family beekeepers collect about 40 million pounds of honey each year. That means 37.7 billion bees contribute to that total. 
• By the way, how many flowers do the bees have to visit to collect nectar for that one pound of honey? About two million. 

Honey … it’s kosher, right?

Yes, honey is considered kosher. 

EarthKosher.com explains it this way: “Because the bee releases the honey from within, it isn’t produced by the bee’s body, making it kosher. (Unlike a non-kosher camel that produces non-kosher milk.) … While there are scriptures that prohibit one from eating a flying insect, there aren’t any verses that prohibit someone from eating what a flying insect excretes – i.e. honey.

“Once you really understand how bees turn that sweet nectar into honey, you actually find that the nectar is never digested. Honeybees simply transform nectar into honey. It is not a secretion of the bee, either. The lovely honeybee only acts as a carrier or facilitator of honey, as opposed to milk produced by a cow or eggs produced by a chicken. This scientific fact is what makes honey a kosher product.”

When is it safe for babies to eat honey?

Infants should not eat honey until they are one year old. Occasionally, honey can contain bacteria that produce toxins in a baby’s intestines, leading to infant botulism, which is a “rare but serious gastrointestinal condition caused by exposure to Clostridium botulinum spores,” says mayoclinic.com.

For this reason, it is recommended to wait until your child is more than one year old before you start letting them enjoy honey.

How about my dog? Can he eat honey?

Yes, says the American Kennel Club. “Honey is safe for dogs to eat in small quantities. It contains natural sugars and small amounts of vitamins and minerals and is used as a sweetener in many foods and beverages.”

However, like human infants, the American Kennel Club recommends that you not feed honey to puppies. “Raw honey should not be fed to puppies or dogs with compromised immune systems, as it may contain the presence of botulism spores. Honey should not be given to diabetic or obese dogs,” says akc.org.

By the way, if you’re looking for a delicious homemade treat for your four-legged friends, try one of our Sue Bee® recipes, like this one for our Peanut Butter Banana Honey Pet Treats.

More fun with honey numbers

As previously mentioned, we rely on bees to pollinate 71 of the 100 crops that provide 90% of the world’s food. In the U.S. alone, honeybees pollinate an estimated $15 billion worth of crops every year. They say that one in every three bites of food we eat depends on bee pollination. 

Here are just a few foods that would disappear without the honeybee:

• Apples
• Almonds
• Blueberries
• Avocados
• Cucumbers
• Onions
• Oranges
• Pumpkins
• Grapefruit
• Cherries

How many honeybees are there?

In the U.S., there were about 2.81 million colonies of honeybees (kept by commercial beekeepers) producing honey in 2019, according to the USDA. (Also, according to the USDA, each of those colonies averaged 55.8 pounds of honey each.)

So, how many bees is that? Each colony (each hive) of bees contains between 20,000 and 60,000, so let’s take the middle number and say, 40,000. Multiply that by 2.8 million and you get about 112 billion honeybees.

Those figures are only for the United States, by the way. And that’s only commercial honeybees producing the honey we eat. It doesn’t take into account the feral honeybees in the U.S.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s website, there were 92 million commercial/domesticated beehives in 2018. So that’s 3.6 trillion honeybees!

Wait, there’s more! The estimates for wild/feral honeybees in the world are a wide range – from 400 million to 800 million. If we take the middle ground again and go with 600 million, and with an average of 40,000 honeybees per hive, that’s 24 trillion honeybees. (Our calculator just exploded.)

Is crystallized honey safe?

Yes. Some people even prefer crystallized honey. They say it’s easier to spread on bagels and toast. 

Honey doesn’t have a shelf life. In fact, according to National Geographic, archaeologists found pots of crystallized honey in ancient tombs that date back 3,000 years. It’s the world’s oldest sample, and still perfectly edible.

So, how does honey crystallize? And why? Check out our blog that tells you everything you ever wanted to know about crystallized honey.

Still curious?

If you’ve made it this far and you’re still curious about honey and bees, welcome to the club. We are, too! Which is why you can keep checking back to SiouxHoney.com for more articles talking about the wonderful world of honey.

The Honeybee Waggle

Figure-8 dance leads worker bees to nectar sources

Birds chirp, dogs bark, frogs croak, fish grunt and click. Each animal has its own unique way of communicating. Honeybees do, too. It’s called the “waggle.”

Worker bees travel up to two miles from their hives in search of nectar sources like clover, wildflowers, fruits, etc. When a honeybee discovers an abundant source of nectar, it hustles back to the hive to tell the thousands of other honey-makers where to find it. By dancing.

With a few simple moves, the honeybee can relay the direction of the nectar source, how bountiful it is and how far the bees need to travel to get to it. Once she gets the attention of her hive mates – by letting them sample the pollen and nectar she gathered at the source – the dance begins.

Shake your honey-maker

If the nectar source is close – within 300 feet of the hive – the worker bee will perform a round waggle dance. It’s a simple routine in which she circles two to three times while her audience watches. The message is simple: Food is nearby.

Once that message is delivered, worker bees set out to find it themselves. They know it’s close and they know the scent and taste, having sampled it from their dancing colleague.

If the nectar source is farther from the hive, the honeybee will perform a more elaborate figure-eight waggle dance. This routine – more of a skillful tango versus a simple two-step – gives a more exact location, with the direction and duration of the waggle correlating with the direction and distance from the hive.

The honey-making dancer waggles in semi-circles, shaking her “booty” (her abdomen) in the direction of the food source. The angle of the dance also informs her onlookers where the food is, relative to the sun. The longer she shakes her body in the general direction, the longer the trek will be.

Need a visual? Click on the video above to see an animation of a honeybee waggle dance. 

Mayor of the Bees

From city hall to California and North Dakota beeyards – this beekeeper has experienced it all

He double-majored in political science and economics at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, he took a job in San Francisco in international trade. 

But the family business – and public service – was calling him back to his hometown of Hughson, California. And when that family business is beekeeping, and your last name is “Beekman,” fate tends to play a significant role.

Besides, as any “beek” (bee geek) will tell you, once honey is in your blood, you’re a beekeeper for life. That’s certainly been the case for Matt Beekman, a third-generation beekeeper and proud member of the Sioux Honey Association Co-op.

That first taste of sweet honey

Matt’s grandfather began keeping bees in the early 1930s. Like many beekeepers, it all began with finding a swarm. From there, Grandpa Beekman and his brother ran bees all over central California – from the valley to the coast.

“Honey prices were pretty good,” says Matt. “We were coming off of the Depression, so the economic opportunities weren’t that great. My grandfather saw a window and he went for it.

“When I was young, I helped my dad and grandfather. I grew up on it,” Matt says. “I was like a lot of beekeepers – and like my grandfather – who had this inherent curiosity. ‘What makes these things work?’ ‘How do these bees do what they do?’ And what’s crazy about beekeeping is I’m a third generation and they still haven’t figured it out. It’s an endless question.”

An alternate path to the beeyard

While Matt’s father continued the family bee business back in the Hughson area, Matt headed off to college to study economics and political science.

“International trade, shipping – that interested me. So I took a job in San Francisco after graduation,” says Matt. “But even when I was working in San Francisco, I would still come home a lot on weekends. I always liked it, and when it came time to start having a family and thinking long-term, I started giving serious consideration to getting back into the business.”

Matt eventually moved back to Hughson where he was soon appointed to the City of Hughson Planning Commission. After five years on the planning commission, he was elected to the city council, then mayor – all while running a beekeeping business.

“I didn’t want to be a professional politician; I was never interested in that,” he says. “But I just wanted to get involved because the town needed help with its long-term development plans and financial organization. I helped weed out some of the corruption and helped get the city back to where it was very successful.

“We had the lowest crime rate, the highest level of financial reserves, and our roads were in the best shape of any city in our county. Hughson is a model city now. People really look to us. You know, it’s a small city, but it’s governed and run very effectively.”

No desks, please

As rewarding as his public service life was, Matt nevertheless gravitated more and more back to beekeeping and the freedom it brings.

“When I was in San Francisco, I had an epiphany of sorts. One day I was like, ‘If everything goes just right, I could be here for another four years, staring at the same window.’ It was kind of a scary thought for me,” Matt recalls.

“Beekeeping, you’re out and about all the time. That part I really like. It’s a very dynamic job. Things are always changing. We’re moving bees to different areas all year. And we’re doing different functions – sometimes we’re doing pollination, sometimes we’re doing honey production. Raising queens – it’s always evolving.”

In the summer months, Matt takes his 4,000 hives (that’s about 180 million bees) to north-central North Dakota where they forage on the region’s abundant wild clover, canola and sunflowers.

In the fall, Matt brings his bees back to California to prepare for spring when he rents out his bees to help pollinate the state’s annual almond crop, which produces about $11 billion in almonds each year.

One almond farmer that Matt partners with on pollination is his father, Bruce, who has continued to farm almonds after selling the family’s honey business to Matt a number of years ago.

“Beekeepers never retire. They have to do something,” Matt says with a smile.

After the almond pollination in January and February, Matt takes his bees to California’s Central Coast and the foothills. Much of the honey the bees make at this point is for the bees to eat, so they can build up strength in preparation for the heavy summer honey production in North Dakota.

Matt also harvests some of the honey that his bees make in California, which offers a wide variety of floral sources. From oranges and black button sage to avocados and manzanitas in the Sierra Nevada, there are plenty of forage sources for honeybees in California.

A trustworthy co-op with a rich history

Matt is the first member of his immediate family to join the Sioux Honey Association Co-op. His cousin, Bryan Beekman, has been a member of the nearly 100-year-old co-op since 2003.

“Reputation was a big reason I joined Sioux Honey,” Matt says. “It’s been almost a hundred years since they formed the co-op, and that consistency is something I was looking for.” 

Selling your honey on the open market can be a crapshoot. And once the honey leaves a beekeeper, there’s no telling where it goes or what happens to it when it’s sold on the open market.

With Sioux Honey, Matt said he knows it’s U.S. Grade A, pure honey. After working in international commerce, identifying his honey as a product of the U.S.A. is a big deal for him.  

“My cousin Bryan is also a member, so I talked to him about it, too,” Matt says. “I’ve been able to produce a product and been able to ship it in a relatively short time after it’s made, and we have a consistent revenue stream. Just from a planning perspective, it’s a big advantage – a big reason why we joined Sioux Honey.”

Matt’s been learning as much as he can about Sioux Honey, and he looks forward to taking on more responsibilities within the co-op.

“Definitely, as time goes on, I’d like to play a larger role and offer some input and things like that. Being a beekeeper, to me, I honestly think that honey is probably one of the most magical agricultural commodities that you can find. If you just look at all the aspects of food – texture, aromatic, sweet – honey really possesses a lot of these things. And for us, as a co-op, to be able to get this product to the consumer is an awesome opportunity. 

“Every beekeeper who drains his or her holding tank and then barrels it, smells it and tastes it knows what it can be. That’s what we get to the consumer.”

The amazing qualities of honey

Adding honey to his coffee is Matt’s favorite way to enjoy nature’s sweetener. He also is an avid cook. When he’s in the kitchen, he always has a bottle of honey nearby. But honey is much more than a natural sweetener for coffee and an important ingredient in baking. Honey is magical in so many different ways, Matt says.

“If you really look at honey from a global perspective, a lot of areas in the world look to honey as a medicine,” he says. “They look to a beehive as a medicine chest. I spent a summer in Russia when I was in college and the host I was staying with was having a little bit of a lung infection and her doctor prescribed her propolis. That was the prescription, and she would consume small amounts of propolis.” 

(Propolis, or bee glue, is a mixture that honeybees make by mixing their saliva and beeswax with botanical sources they collect from tree buds and sap flow. It’s used as a sealant for small spaces in a hive – as opposed to beeswax, which is used for larger spaces, like capping honey cells.)

“We’re still learning. You look at bees in general – the only limitation is our imagination. It’s really up us to keep learning and to be diligent in our care of the bees.”

Summer Snack Attack

5 quick and easy recipes that kids – and parents – will love

Riding a bike. Skateboarding. Running. Swimming. Baseball, softball – just having a ball. Kids find all sorts of ways to burn extra energy in the summertime. Sure, they burn energy year-round. Lots of it. But in the summertime, when they can run and play outside, they are energy-guzzling, turbo-charged machines that go, go, go!

Which means they need more fuel in the summer months to keep them going. 

“Mom, dad, we need snacks. What do we have to eat?”

Sound familiar? It does to us – we’re parents, too. And we know all about the summer snack attacks. Which is why we put together some of our favorite homemade recipes to help get you through the summer. They’re easy to make, kids love them, and they all include our favorite natural ingredient: Sue Bee® honey.

Honey PB Cheerio Bars

With three simple ingredients and no baking required, these snacks are perfect for the brisk pace of summer. And they’re portable, so kids can take them on the go. Try them out.

Honey Fruit Snacks

These tasty nuggets are great for an afternoon snack, part of lunch or even on a summer road trip. And you can make them in just a few quick steps.

Cinnamon Honey Chex Mix

This one comes highly recommended from our resident hyper-wholesome mom who, as a long-distance runner, knows all about keeping the body full of energy. “And it tastes great!” she says. Try the recipe.

Fruit Yogurt Popsicles

Keep the kiddies cool this summer with these frozen delights. Made with Sue Bee® honey, yogurt and fresh or frozen fruit, they are popular with our on-the-go children. Try them out.

Honey-Kissed Fruit Smoothies

Fruit smoothies are the perfect way to get filled up with energy, especially in the summer. Nothing is more refreshing than an ice-cold smoothie while having fun in the sun. Try one of our five fruit smoothie recipes – better yet, try them all!

Cinnamon Honey Chex Mix

Yum, yum, yum. Due to its yum factor, be sure to have plenty of this snack around – it goes fast. Get used to hearing, “Can you make some more?”

Ingredients

5 cups Rice Chex Mix

5 cups Corn Chex Mix

1 tsp baking soda

1 tbsp cinnamon

1/2 cup Sue Bee® honey

1/2 cup butter

1 cup whole almonds (optional)

Directions

Stir together all dry ingredients in large bowl. Heat butter in saucepan until melted. Add honey. Bring to boil. Quickly pour over Chex mixture and combine. 

Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Pour into cookie sheet. Put in oven for 5 minutes at 350 degrees. Take out and stir Chex mixture and put back in oven for 5 more minutes. Cool and store in air-tight container.

Bee Happy Giveaway

SIOUX HONEY ASSOCIATION CO-OP (SHAC) OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE THE CHANCES OF WINNING.

1. Eligibility: This giveaway is only open to legal residents of the United States who are 18 years or older as of the date of entry and is void where prohibited by law. Employees of SHAC, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and suppliers, (collectively the “Employees”), and immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of Employees are not eligible to participate in the giveaway. The giveaway is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

2. Agreement to Rules: By participating, the Contestant (“You”) agree to be fully unconditionally bound by these Rules, and You represent and warrant that You meet the eligibility requirements. In addition, You agree to accept the decisions of SHAC as final and binding as it relates to the giveaway and these Rules.

3. Campaign Period: Entries will be accepted online starting on June 1, 2020 and ending June 4, 2020. All online entries must be received by midnight Central Time, June 4, 2020.

4. How to Enter: To enter, You must tag a friend in the comments section of the giveaway post (Facebook and Instagram) or tag a friend in a retweet of the giveaway tweet (Twitter). The entry must fulfill all giveaway requirements, as specified, to be eligible to win a prize. Entries that are incomplete or do not adhere to the rules or specifications may be disqualified at the sole discretion of SHAC. You may enter only once. You must provide the information requested. You may not enter more times than indicated by using multiple email addresses, identities, or devices in an attempt to circumvent the rules. If You use fraudulent methods or otherwise attempt to circumvent the rules, your submission may be removed from eligibility at the sole discretion of SHAC.

5. Prizes: The Winner(s) of the giveaway (the “Winner”) will receive a Bee Happy sign and a bottle of Aunt Sue’s honey. The specifics of the prize shall be solely determined by SHAC. No cash or other prize substitution shall be permitted. No substitution of prize or request for the cash equivalent by the Winner is permitted. No transfer/assignment of prize to others is permitted unless the Winner does not respond to contact by SHAC within one week of initial contact. At that point, another Winner will be chosen. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission for SHAC to use Winner’s name, likeness, and entry for purpose of advertising and trade without further compensation, unless prohibited by law.

6. Odds: The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

7. Winner Selection and Notification: The Winner will be selected by a random drawing under the supervision of SHAC. The Winner will be notified by a comment and message within five (5) days following selection of the Winner. SHAC shall have no liability for the Winner’s failure to receive notices due to spam, junk email or other security settings or for the Winner’s provision of incorrect or otherwise non-functioning contact information. If the Winner cannot be contacted or is ineligible, the prize may be forfeited and an alternate Winner selected. Receipt by the Winner of the prize offered in this giveaway is conditioned upon compliance with any and all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. ANY VIOLATION OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES BY THE WINNER (AT SHAC’s SOLE DISCRETION) WILL RESULT IN THE WINNER’S DISQUALIFICATION AS THE WINNER OF THE GIVEAWAY, AND ALL PRIVILEGES AS THE WINNER WILL BE IMMEDIATELY TERMINATED.

8. Rights Granted by You: By entering this giveaway, You understand and agree that SHAC or anyone acting on behalf of SHAC and SHAC’s licensees, successors, and assigns, shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and throughout the World, without limitation, your entry, name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the giveaway, and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade, advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes without any further compensation, notice, review, or consent. By entering this content, You represent and warrant that your entry does not violate any third party’s proprietary or intellectual property rights. If your entry infringes upon the intellectual property right of another, You will be disqualified at the sole discretion of SHAC. If the content of your entry is claimed to constitute infringement of any proprietary or intellectual proprietary rights of any third party, You shall, at your sole expense, defend or settle against such claims. You shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SHAC from and against any suit, proceeding, claims, liability, loss, damage, costs or expense which SHAC may incur, suffer, or be required to pay arising out of such infringement or suspected infringement of any third party’s right.

9. Terms & Conditions: SHAC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Campaign should virus, bug, non-authorized human intervention, fraud, or other cause beyond SHAC’s control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, or proper conduct of the Campaign. In such case, SHAC may select the Winner from all eligible entries received prior to and/or after (if appropriate) the action taken by SHAC. SHAC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Campaign or website or violates these Terms & Conditions. SHAC has the right, in its sole discretion, to maintain the integrity of the Campaign, to void votes for any reason, including, but not limited to: multiple entries from the same user from different IP addresses; multiple entries from the same computer in excess of that allowed by Campaign rules; or the use of bots, macros, scripts, or other technical means for entering. Any attempt by an entrant to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Campaign may be a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such attempt be made, SHAC reserves the right to seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law.

10. Limitation of Liability: SHAC and its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers, and directors shall have no responsibility for any liability (including tax liability), illness, injury, death, loss, litigation, claim, or damage that may occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from: (i) such entrant’s participation in the Campaign and/or his/her acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of any prize or any portion thereof; (ii) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to, the malfunction of any computer, cable, network, hardware, software, or other mechanical equipment; (iii) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions, telephone, or internet service; (iv) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; (v) electronic or human error in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries.

11. Disputes: THIS GIVEAWAY IS GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF IOWA, WITHOUT RESPECT TO CONFLICT OF LAW DOCTRINES. As a condition of participating in this Campaign, participant agrees that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between the parties and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Campaign shall be resolved individually without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in Iowa having jurisdiction. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances shall participant be permitted to obtain awards for and hereby waives all rights to, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorney’s fees, other than participant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering this Campaign). Participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

12. Copy of Rules/Winners List: To obtain a copy of the Winner’s name or a copy of these Official Rules, mail your request along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: Bozell, 2215 Harney St, Omaha, NE 68102. Requests must be received no later than June 4, 2020, 12:00 p.m. CST.

13. Sponsor: The Sponsor of the giveaway is Sioux Honey Association Co-op, 301 Lewis Blvd, Sioux City, IA 51101.

14. Facebook: The Campaign hosted by SHAC is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook.

Guess the State Giveaway Rules

SIOUX HONEY ASSOCIATION CO-OP (SHAC) OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE THE CHANCES OF WINNING.

1. Eligibility: This giveaway is only open to legal residents of the United States who are 18 years or older as of the date of entry and is void where prohibited by law. Employees of SHAC, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and suppliers, (collectively the “Employees”), and immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of Employees are not eligible to participate in the giveaway. The giveaway is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

2. Agreement to Rules: By participating, the Contestant (“You”) agree to be fully unconditionally bound by these Rules, and You represent and warrant that You meet the eligibility requirements. In addition, You agree to accept the decisions of SHAC as final and binding as it relates to the giveaway and these Rules.

3. Campaign Period: Entries will be accepted online starting on June 11, 2020 and ending June 14, 2020. All online entries must be received by midnight Central Time, June 14, 2020.

4. How to Enter: To enter, You must correctly guess the state the beekeeper is located in. The entry must fulfill all giveaway requirements, as specified, to be eligible to win a prize. Entries that are incomplete or do not adhere to the rules or specifications may be disqualified at the sole discretion of SHAC. You may enter only once. You must provide the information requested. You may not enter more times than indicated by using multiple email addresses, identities, or devices in an attempt to circumvent the rules. If You use fraudulent methods or otherwise attempt to circumvent the rules, your submission may be removed from eligibility at the sole discretion of SHAC.

5. Prizes: The Winner(s) of the giveaway (the “Winner”) will receive a bottle of Sue Bee Honey. The specifics of the prize shall be solely determined by SHAC. No cash or other prize substitution shall be permitted. No substitution of prize or request for the cash equivalent by the Winner is permitted. No transfer/assignment of prize to others is permitted unless the Winner does not respond to contact by SHAC within one week of initial contact. At that point, another Winner will be chosen. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission for SHAC to use Winner’s name, likeness, and entry for purpose of advertising and trade without further compensation, unless prohibited by law.

6. Odds: The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

7. Winner Selection and Notification: The Winner will be selected by a random drawing under the supervision of SHAC. The Winner will be notified by a comment and/or message within five (5) days following selection of the Winner. SHAC shall have no liability for the Winner’s failure to receive notices due to spam, junk email or other security settings or for the Winner’s provision of incorrect or otherwise non-functioning contact information. If the Winner cannot be contacted or is ineligible, the prize may be forfeited and an alternate Winner selected. Receipt by the Winner of the prize offered in this giveaway is conditioned upon compliance with any and all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. ANY VIOLATION OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES BY THE WINNER (AT SHAC’s SOLE DISCRETION) WILL RESULT IN THE WINNER’S DISQUALIFICATION AS THE WINNER OF THE GIVEAWAY, AND ALL PRIVILEGES AS THE WINNER WILL BE IMMEDIATELY TERMINATED.

8. Rights Granted by You: By entering this giveaway, You understand and agree that SHAC or anyone acting on behalf of SHAC and SHAC’s licensees, successors, and assigns, shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and throughout the World, without limitation, your entry, name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the giveaway, and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade, advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes without any further compensation, notice, review, or consent. By entering this content, You represent and warrant that your entry does not violate any third party’s proprietary or intellectual property rights. If your entry infringes upon the intellectual property right of another, You will be disqualified at the sole discretion of SHAC. If the content of your entry is claimed to constitute infringement of any proprietary or intellectual proprietary rights of any third party, You shall, at your sole expense, defend or settle against such claims. You shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SHAC from and against any suit, proceeding, claims, liability, loss, damage, costs or expense which SHAC may incur, suffer, or be required to pay arising out of such infringement or suspected infringement of any third party’s right.

9. Terms & Conditions: SHAC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Campaign should virus, bug, non-authorized human intervention, fraud, or other cause beyond SHAC’s control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, or proper conduct of the Campaign. In such case, SHAC may select the Winner from all eligible entries received prior to and/or after (if appropriate) the action taken by SHAC. SHAC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Campaign or website or violates these Terms & Conditions. SHAC has the right, in its sole discretion, to maintain the integrity of the Campaign, to void votes for any reason, including, but not limited to: multiple entries from the same user from different IP addresses; multiple entries from the same computer in excess of that allowed by Campaign rules; or the use of bots, macros, scripts, or other technical means for entering. Any attempt by an entrant to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Campaign may be a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such attempt be made, SHAC reserves the right to seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law.

10. Limitation of Liability: SHAC and its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers, and directors shall have no responsibility for any liability (including tax liability), illness, injury, death, loss, litigation, claim, or damage that may occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from: (i) such entrant’s participation in the Campaign and/or his/her acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of any prize or any portion thereof; (ii) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to, the malfunction of any computer, cable, network, hardware, software, or other mechanical equipment; (iii) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions, telephone, or internet service; (iv) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; (v) electronic or human error in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries.

11. Disputes: THIS GIVEAWAY IS GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF IOWA, WITHOUT RESPECT TO CONFLICT OF LAW DOCTRINES. As a condition of participating in this Campaign, participant agrees that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between the parties and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Campaign shall be resolved individually without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in Iowa having jurisdiction. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances shall participant be permitted to obtain awards for and hereby waives all rights to, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorney’s fees, other than participant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering this Campaign). Participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

12. Copy of Rules/Winners List: To obtain a copy of the Winner’s name or a copy of these Official Rules, mail your request along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: Bozell, 2215 Harney St, Omaha, NE 68102. Requests must be received no later than June 14, 2020, 12:00 p.m. CST.

13. Sponsor: The Sponsor of the giveaway is Sioux Honey Association Co-op, 301 Lewis Blvd, Sioux City, IA 51101.

14. Facebook: The Campaign hosted by SHAC is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook.

Peanut Butter Banana Honey Pet Treats

Dogs must have a little Elvis in them, because every pooch that has tried our homemade Peanut Butter Banana Honey Pet Treats absolutely loves them. 

These homemade snacks are made with natural ingredients like Sue Bee® honey and are the perfect treat for good doggies. Plus, because they’re homemade, they come with extra love and affection.

You can find all sorts of fun, pet-themed cookie cutter molds online, too. So the next time your four-legged friends need a treat, give them one of these delicious snacks. (And remember, they’re not just for hound dogs!)

Ingredients

1 egg

1/3 cup peanut butter

1/2 cup mashed banana

1 tbsp Sue Bee® Clover Honey

1 cup whole wheat flour

1/2 cup wheat germ

1 egg white, lightly beaten, for brushing

Directions

Preheat oven to 300° F (150° C). Lightly grease a baking sheet.

Stir the egg, peanut butter, banana and honey together in a mixing bowl and blend them well.

Next, stir in the flour and wheat germ and mix thoroughly.

Place the dough on a floured board and roll to a quarter-inch thick. Cut into desired shapes with a cookie cutter and place on a baking sheet. Brush tops with egg white.

Bake for 30 minutes or until dried and golden brown.

Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.