Copoco’s Honey

Specialties

Copoco’s Honey and Bee Products devotes our time to bees and anything bee related. We carry nearly all products of the hive as well as bee related items such as toys, books and movies. If you are interested in beekeeping, we have everything you need to get going and keep going with beekeeping. Stop in for free honey sampling or to talk bees. We have local raw and unfiltered honey as well as out of state specialty honey.

History

Established in 2004.

It all started when brothers Benjamin and John Gilmore started catching swarms in town and giving them a new home. That progressed into hive removals from people’s houses, businesses, trees on rare occasions or anywhere else bees took up residence that was not well received. Soon they had acquired a fair number of hives and had to find something to do with the surplus products.

Virginia, mother of John and Benjamin, volunteered to attend farmer’s markets with their raw and unfiltered honey. A few markets a week ended up becoming up to 5 markets a week. Realizing that it would be in everyone’s best interested to set up a retail store, Copoco’s Honey’s first location on Trilby and Sheilds was opened. Soon it became apparent that a larger retail location was necessary. In 2007 Copoco’s Honey and Bee Products was opened at 2020 North College Ave in Fort Collins where it began carrying beekeeping supplies as well as honey, candles and all the rest of the goodies one would expect.