Good King

Hi 👋🏼 – and Industry friends, please join us:

Sat, May 20 7AM PDT / 10AM EDT for...
An INTERACTIVE session on Collaborating across the Cocoa Value Chain hosted by (registration link in comments)

We've collected countless stories from across the industry on benefits and how-to's on collaborations including profit sharing, bonuses, prepayments, working with origin chocolate, direct trade, value-added processing in origin, and more.

We can’t wait to share, connect with one another, and exchange what’s working in real time.

Hope to see you there! And even if you can’t make it, you can register to receive the recording.

. We have completely sold out of our Seattle-based .

I (Kim) don’t believe this is goodbye forever. 🙏🏻 Our goal is to connect you DIRECTLY with the incredible communities who grow and make your snacks. We haven’t achieved that goal YET. It’s taking much longer than imagined, but there is still HOPE. Maybe that should be our first flavor name from origin? 😉

If you need a final fix, our friends in AZ [who love a good non-melting ] can send a little Delight, Harmony, Love, Arise, and Abound your way – if you hurry.

In the meantime… we created a 501c3 nonprofit – Cocoa Future Collaborative! Our goal remains the same – to support cacao growing communities in their progression from growers to makers - whether they sell to us or not. Please sign-up for our monthly email at cocoafuture.org, follow us on Facebook and, of course, donate – because cacao growers worldwide should be able to and products.

Finally (and quite importantly), if you’re in a cocoa growing community and we haven’t formally met yet – hello! 👋🏼 Please DM us. We’d love to get to know you!

Final pic from our days in . Arising above Grand Canyon Falls at Artist Point. Didn’t see any painters 👩🏼‍🎨🎨, but plenty of photographers! 📸

Ha ha - and you’ll notice the bag is getting low… My (Kim’s) favorite flavor - especially for an afternoon . , and a splash of coconut cream for that indulgent coffee candy-like crunch. 😋

Skies aren’t quite as blue at the end of our trip… sigh. 🙏🏻 for the firefighters, first responders, and our beautiful 🌎.