A social enterprise · Ethical trade · Community empowerment · Cacao education

Cacao for a Causethis is cacao, as it should be

Bounty of nature, desired by gods, for you to enjoy. Whole fermented beans, stone ground for hours and sun dried the old way — nothing pressed out, nothing added.

We buy direct from small family farms at above market price, know the growers by name, and lab test every lot. Every packet carries the hillside, the harvest and the family behind it.

Shop the cacao Meet the families

Where it comes from

The families who grow it

All our farms

The lot number on your packet points to one family, one hillside, one harvest. Open their page and you can see the farm, the region and how they ferment and dry.

Davao, Mindanao, Philippines

The Santos family

Ricardo and Marilou Santos farm two and a half hectares under rainforest canopy, with their son Miguel now grafting the next generation of trees.

Lots RC-2409-DAV · RC-2501-DAV

Duarte province, Dominican Republic

Doña Mercedes & her neighbours

Five neighbouring family farms, organised by Mercedes Peña, who has fermented cacao on the same patio for thirty-one years.

Lots RC-2404-DR · RC-2411-DR

Interior highlands, Philippines & Ecuador

Our highland partners

Tiny plots deep inside forest, reached on foot. Micro-lots of a few hundred kilos, kept separate and never blended.

Lots RC-2412-HL

How we buy

We know the hands that grew it

We are a social enterprise — trade is the tool, the growing communities are the point. Every batch comes straight from a small farm we visit ourselves — bought direct, paid above market, one harvest at a time. And every lot carries a number on the label you can look up to see its real lab certificate.

No brokers: We buy direct from small family farms — no international middleman taking a cut of their harvest.
We pay more: Above market price, every harvest, because good cacao takes care and the people growing it deserve it.
Names, not codes: We know our farmers, their families, their children's names. We stay in personal contact all year.
Many varieties: We seek out different cacao varieties from different regions, so each lot tastes like where it grew.

Cacao for a Cause label: organic shade-grown heritage genetics stone ground ceremonial cacao, 250 g, origin The Philippines

The difference

Raw cacao, or Dutch-processed cocoa?

Almost every cocoa on a supermarket shelf has been alkalised — washed with alkali salts to darken the colour and flatten the taste. It also removes most of what people drink cacao for.