While many of us are familiar with chocolate, fewer will have tried cacao fruit. If you have got your hands on some fresh ...

Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says ...

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He and Sefami have been working toward this moment for about five years. Securing a cacao tree, it turns out, isn’t all that difficult. Blackley found his first one on the auction site EBay.

Based on archeological finds, it’s thought that people from Ecuador’s ancient Mayo-Chinchipe culture ingested a cacao-based substance as far back as 3,300 BCE. However, it’s not until the ...

THE AZTECS of central Mexico attributed the creation of the cacao beans to their god Quetzalcoatl who descended from heaven on a beam of a morning star carrying a cacao tree stolen from paradise ...

Indeed, this tree doesn't naturally survive in the climate of Southern California. Blackley, however, wants dozens of them. Blackley is growing cacao trees. And he says this latest obsession ...