Sharing Sweetness + Honey For Hope
Giving Back & Spreading Sweetness. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than That.
The hive has really been buzzing this year! From supporting the local Siouxland Warming Shelter, to donating over 10,000 bottles of SUE BEE® Honey to Food Banks across the nation, you could say we’ve been pretty busy bees! Bee puns aside, we saw the need for support and aid in our community and decided that we needed to do our part. All of this is a part of our charitable initiative Sharing Sweetness, in which we help give back to our communities that have helped us spread sweetness for over 100 years!
A Football Field Sized Honey Donation for National Honey Month
Sioux Honey Co-op also donated 10,000 bottles of its delicious SUE BEE® Clover Honey to food providers in California and Idaho. That’s enough honey to cover an entire football field, or drizzle over 220,672 pancakes! These donations were made in partnerships with Los Angeles-based Smart & Final, which operates 255 grocery stores in the western U.S., and WinCo Foods, a Boise, Idaho-based grocer with 126 locations in the Midwest and western U.S., all based around local communities near our co-op beekeepers.
Honey is shelf stable and incredibly versatile, it doesn’t need to be refrigerated, can be used to soothe a sore throat, tame a cough; it’s also a great substitute for sugar, honey is really truly a superfood. Sioux Honey Co-op has committed to more honey donations as the co-op continues sharing sweetness!
Sharing sweetness with the siouxland community
Our local Siouxland Warming Shelter was facing closure, with so many people in our community depending on them for a safe, warm, and caring place to stay through the winter, Sioux Honey Co-op saw this and had to step in, too many people depended on them to stay open. Our co-op made donations to help keep the Warming Shelter open so it could continue to serve our community members in need. Great news! With the huge outpouring of support, the Warming Shelter will continue to be able to serve those in need in our community!
Project Apis m. Researching the Honeybee
All of this is only possible because of the honeybee, and all of our beekeepers too! The health of honeybees is one of our top priorities as a co-op and thus have decided to contribute to Project Apis m. in order to help further the Projects research to better protect our beloved honeybees and develop better methods for successful beekeeping!
Check out Project Apis m. and their initiatives here: Project Apis m.
Bee part of something bigger, connect with our community today. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, X, and Pinterest, also check out more on our donations and blogs here: Honey For Hope. Sioux Honey Co-op Blogs.
