Please join us on our sweet journey with the launch of our new brand, Sted! In Norwegian, Sted means 'place' and embodies our three founding principles: Honor Place, Create Connection, and Celebrate Taste. We're excited to celebrate this new chapter with you while assuring you that the delicious chocolate you know and love will remain, with some tasty additions!
We can teach our grandchildren things that we could never learn in a lifetime because the art of living in community with soil, land, nature and neighbors does not belong to any one of us—we may think we keep community but often community, quietly and reverently, keeps us.
Our lived traditions are do not just sweeten our lives on occasion, but become the rhythm and soul of our seasons, bringing us to recreate tastes out in and out of the garden, the maple woods and the events held at Star Isle or near Minnesota’s over 14,000 lakes.
Josh and Kristin Mohagen started a small craft chocolate business just nine years ago, but its chocolate is now being carried by national grocery chains and it has produced an award-winning golden chocolate which Josh calls "one of the best white chocolates in the world."
My appreciation for food began as a child around the communal pots that the ladies tend in Cameroon, Africa. My respect for ingredients grew from my time in the French Alps. Today, my chocolate honors the hands that have touched the ingredients before they reach my Northern Minnesotan kitchen.