Origin series

The families who grow it

Every packet carries a lot number. That number points to one family, one hillside and one harvest — so you know whose hands picked it, not just which country it left from.

Lot RC-2409-DAV

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.

Meet them

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