Edibles Startup Sweet on New Facility; Wants to Grow Own Cannabis
As if Willy Wonka wasn’t already trippy.
Local cannabis chocolatier BlueKudu is pouring $1.5 million into a 20,000-square-foot production facility that will include a big new kitchen and a greenhouse for growing marijuana in house.
BlueKudu founder and owner Andrew Schrot, 34, started making chocolate edibles out of a commercial kitchen in Five Points in 2012. Last summer he purchased a warehouse at 4805 Kingston St. in northeast Denver for $975,000, according to property records. The company hopes to move in by fall.
Founder Andrew Schrot. Photo courtesy of BlueKudu.
Schrot said growing his own cannabis is more cost-effective than purchasing oils from other producers to use in his 10 flavors of chocolate.
“We want to get to the point where we’re completely vertically integrated,” he said. “We feel that will give us a lot more quality control as far as...
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