
Origin Trip 2023: Davao, Philippines
After traveling for over 40 hours, I was thankful to arrive safely in Davao City. It was good to be back in a place I know so well, and that is so ...
Read moreAfter traveling for over 40 hours, I was thankful to arrive safely in Davao City. It was good to be back in a place I know so well, and that is so ...
Read moreIt’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years. It feels like it’s been so much longer, but when I go and visit our origins, I feel the same sense of awe ...
Read moreThis month marks our fourteenth & most challenging year of practicing direct trade and sharing profits to source premium cocoa beans from small...
Read moreThis years’ profit share was one of our biggest ever because it was a great year for sales of chocolate made with their beans. We always couple the...
Read moreMonica, our lead farmer partner in Zamora, Amazonia, holds the single origin chocolate bar (now featuring a 2019 Good Food Award emblem!!) made wit...
Read moreThis was Shawn’s fourteenth visit with Vitaliano; we’ve been buying outstanding Arriba Nacional cocoa beans to make our Ecuador chocolate bars fro...
Read moreThis year marks our eleventh anniversary of being the first chocolate makers in the world to export cocoa from the Philippines, and of collaborati...
Read moreAfter 60+ hours of travel, the 2018 Chocolate University Class arrived in Tanzania!! The final leg of the trip included a long bus ride to the remo...
Read moreAfter meeting with Vitaliano, our lead farmer partner in Ecuador, I made the short trip to see our newest farmer partner group in Zamora, Amazonia....
Read moreI met with our lead farmer partner, Vitaliano, his son, Moises, and the rest of his family, from whom we purchase all of the Arriba Nacional cacao ...
Read moreOn the first origin trip of 2018 Shawn met with lead farmer, Peter Cruz, pictured here alongside farm manager, Johnny. They inspected our next ship...
Read moreAfter wrapping up the last week of the 2017 Tanzania origin trip, Shawn took a quick detour to Madagascar before heading home! For now, the details...
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