I’ve written an article describing at a high level the steps that a cacao farmer / producer takes to produce cacao beans for artisan chocolate markers. I hope you find this informative. Each of the steps could be unpacked into many more articles of their own.
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Met Rebecca a cacao farmer in Makira, Solomon Islands. Also co-founder Brian’s sister, women in cacao are very important as they work at every step of the process. Even winning awards at the countries highest level Sol Choc festival. Behind every bar is a farmer that put all the effort and energy in producing the best cacao they could in our workshop. One day we hope we can extend more of the process happening in the Sols. Looking forward to the day we can go back and work directly on the land with them. @makiragold
It’s been wonderful to watch this new product “brewing cacao pouches” blossom from ideation stage to something we can hold in our hands.
“Fathers Day” inspired gift pack, our honorary Dad of the SPC team Brian picked his favourites and Jess from her biz @chocolateartisan created us some special “s’mores” like items exclusively for us using the Cacao husk and vanilla beans from Manus Island PNG.
Simple easy visual directions 'how to' enjoy "Brewing Cacao" as a pure unadulterated hot bervage, a mixture of majority lightly toasted awarding winning cacao husk with nib dust as I like to call it. We created this humble product in our workshop, I believe it is a treasure to find amongst our offerings and I am so proud to share it with you all. Our friend Fraser at @mantlevideo created this mesmerising story to help people have confidence in making it for themselves the same way we do.
Wise words from the gourmet queen herself ! Thank you @joanna_savill when it's time to give yourself a little lockdown present...