10/11/2026
More than 5,000 years ago, in what is now Ecuador, people were already harvesting cacao. Since then, generations of farmers have worked the land, cared for cacao trees, harvested their pods by hand and passed what they learned from parent to child.
Every harvest today carries that history with it. The timing of the pick, the feel of a ripe pod, the patience of fermentation: none of it came from a manual. It came from generations of farmers paying attention. Protecting cacao farming means protecting that knowledge, those traditions and the livelihoods built around them, so nothing learned over all those years is lost. Some things are worth carrying forward. 🌱
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