(Radio Iowa) — The Sioux Honey Association Co-op in Sioux City wants Americans to know who their honey comes from and they have launched a national campaign. Co-op chairman Rob Buhmann, says the campaign features the faces and stories of local beekeepers across the country. “it’s our product, we are putting a domestic product on the shelf. We are not doing anything to it to damage it,” Buhmann says.

He says they work hard to make sure they keep up the standards. “We are checking ourselves constantly with testing protocols to make sure that the honey produce, any honey we purchase is what it says it is,” according toe Buhmann. The Sioux Honey Association was established in Sioux City in 1921 to operate based on “what’s best for its beekeepers, its honey and its customers.”