\”The flowers bring life and the chamomile does it tenderly, healing even the hardest heart when it\’s combined with the water of the exotic babaco, the gingers’s warmth and the fire that covers our country’s oranges. The wise hands combine spices, fruits and herbs in the chocolate made from the best Ecuador´s “arriba” cocoa; to […]
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This chocolate bar 76% comes from a \”small batch\”, Organic Limited Edition, whose cocoa comes exclusively from the Hacienda \”six Brothers\” Vinces, province of Los Rios-Ecuador; owned by Mr. Raul Carriel and 6 children. It is one of the historic cocoa plantations in Ecuador. It is managed organically, directly by the family to ensure the […]
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coffee, vanilla, achiote, timber, banana, native corn, chilis, oranges, hazelnut, lemon, sweet potato, Mamey timber, Mamey oil, three types of bean, roots and tubers (yucca, taro, yams, sweet potato, etc.) potatoes, heart of palm, palm fruits, nopal cactus, chayote squash, tomatoes, cocoa, sugarcane, horse chestnut, etc. Please contact us for details on available crops. […]
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Cutting out the middlemen and increasing local processing are commonly seen as the key to helping small producers capture more value and improve their incomes. Extracting oil instead of selling Brazil nuts, processing frozen fruit pulp instead of fresh fruit, making chocolate bars instead of cocoa beans – the finished product is clearly more […]
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moringa steak seasoning; moringa and ginger and peppermint tea; rooibos, moringa and spearmint tea; moringa, mate, and goji berry tea; moringa tea; moringa, cinnamon, and fennel tea; tea of moringa, genmaicha green tea and cocoa pod husk, tea with moringa, white tea and elderberry; moringa leaf powder, moringa with ras el-hanout spice mix; moringa and […]
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The holidays can bring a welcome change of pace, when we slow down and share time with friends and family. This sharing includes gifts which […]
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Artisanal chocolates from our aromatic cocoa from small producers in Tocache, Peru. Coming from sustainable crops Rainforest Alliance, Organic, UTZ and Fairtrade certified.
We offer chocolate bars of 35g each in the following presentations:
60% cocoa
70% cocoa
80% cocoa
Milk chocolate
White chocolate
chocolate with peanuts
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This article was originally published on the CRS Coffeelands blog on October 23, 2015. In this piece, Jefferson Shriver describes how climate change is affecting coffee production, forcing many farmers to use other (often lower quality) coffee varieties, switch to non-coffee crops, or abandon agriculture altogether. […]
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On a Saturday afternoon in late September in the Peruvian jungle town of Satipo, Jonatan Ayala Lombardi offers up a chocolate surprise. Jonatan is the general manager of the Satipo Cooperative, which sells hundreds of tons of cacao and coffee from its 620 farmer members from this frontier region where the Andes meld into the Amazon lowlands. […]
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Fine Milk Chocolate made of our finest Ecuadorian cocoa beans, the cocoa “Arriba”. It is all natural, doesn’t contain any vanilla. We have Fine Milk Chocolate, Fine Milk Chocolate with coffee, Fine Milk Chocolate with passion fruit, Fine Milk Chocolate with macadamias. […]
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