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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 ...

“Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like Santoso are working with businesses and other organizations ...

Now he has a new mission: to start a Los Angeles chocolate company. The challenge? Cacao trees don’t grow in the Southern California climate. Blackley and partner Asher Sefami approach the ...

Running Thursday through Saturday, the 12th annual Big Island Chocolate Festival in Waikōloa aims to advance Hawaiʻi’s cacao industry by celebrating chocolate with seminars, culinary demonstrations, a ...

Cocoa trees are high maintenance ... driving up chocolate costs and leading some chocolate makers to try growing cocoa in laboratories. Indonesia is the third-largest producer of cocoa in the ...

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 ...