There’s been a lot of recent buzz about Björn’s Colorado Honey, a local company founded by beekeeper Pontus Jakobsson and his wife, Lara Boudreaux, in 2013. Jakobsson grew up around bees; his father and grandfather (the company’s namesake) both plied the trade in his home country of Sweden. Before 2020, you’d have to comb local farmers’ markets to track down a jar of Björn’s, but over the past six years, the couple has opened retail stores in seven cities.
In chic, yellow-accented and natural-wood-filled spaces, they offer clover, wildflower, and orchard honey from their Boulder, Weld, and Larimer county apiaries; European-made, bee-based skincare products that Jakobsson’s family has sold for decades in Sweden; bee-themed mugs and other kitchenware; and several honeys from beekeeper friends in other states.
With the recent addition of the company’s first cafe, in DIA’s Concourse C, Björn’s now has more than 90 employees, but Jakobsson and one other beekeeper still do most of the hive maintenance and honey harvesting…