February 26, 2022  Dale Erwin      Last week, our team visited Esmeraldas. Raul invited us to his finca. He’s the former president of the UOPROCAE cacao Co-operative. His farm is about 4 hectares of jungle, reached by a bumpy road lined with emerald cow pastures and glassy ponds. I sat in the b...

Travel with us to Ecuador during the Holiday season! We are excited to be part of the FCCI @chocoinstitute Origin Series event. Learn about our special partnership with Grocer’s @grocersdaughter and Conexión Chocolate journey working in cacao and chocolate. Connect on the link below on December ...

 Anne Boulley is also known as Artisanne Chocolatier. She discovered a love for chocolate work after her years of food writing for popular food magazines, and then working as a pastry chef for her own cafe on the Southern Oregon Coast. "My favorite work was creating chocolate truffles and mendian...

Jenny Samaniego, owner of Conexion chocolate, is on a mission to create a different kind of business model. When she launched her company in 2016 in Quito, Ecuador, she had a vision to create a true collaboration, not only with the people behind the cultivation of cocoa, but also the chocolatiers...