When You Buy Our Cacao, You’re Directly Supporting a Whole Ecosystem of Positive Impact.

Whether you’re an individual wanting to start or deepen your relationship to cacao or a business selling cacao as a core offering, we offer options for everyone.

INDIVIDUAL

1-9 pounds

Pounds & half-pounds

US shipping only

Available on our other website AWANIMA

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Purchase

Cacao Lover

✧ 10 pounds

✧ $29 / pound ($280 total)*

✧ International shipping available

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Sharer

✧ 25 pounds

✧ $25 / pound ($600 total)*

✧ International shipping available

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Wholesale

✧ 50 pounds

✧ $22 / pound ($1000 total)*

✧ International shipping available

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Distributor

✧ 100-199 pounds: ~$20/lb

✧ 200+ pounds: ~$19/lb

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*These prices do not yet including shipping. After your purchase, we will reach out to you to coordinate shipping, which you will be responsible for paying for separately.

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About Our Cacao

The cacao is fermented, slowly sun-dried, fire-toasted and peeled by hand, and ground into the block.

  • ✧ Genetics: Blend of local varieties - forestero, criollo, and hybrids
    ✧ Flavor Profile: Balanced, light fruity bitterness, soft vanilla notes, and a touch of citrus. Rich, complex flavors!
    ✧ Fermentation: 8-12 days in large wooden boxes
    ✧ Drying: Slow in a Drying House
    ✧ Environment: Small villages in mountain valleys. Young orchards of fruit forests, proximity to many homes, surrounded by wild nature. Growing alongside cinnamon, cardamom, black pepper, allspice, and copal.
    ✧ Region: Alta Verapaz
    ✧ Altitude: 300m
    ✧ Specifics: Agroforestry forest of mixed cacao across 3 villages
    ✧ Ownership: 90 Q'eqchi families organized in a farmers cooperative

  • Ceremonial-Grade for us means that the process from harvesting to roasting, peeling, and grinding is done in slow, ancestral ways, with fair payments and kind, ethical treatment for all hands involved, to ensure the integrity of cacao’s medicinal properties.

  • All of our cacao is Kosher certified, meeting rigorous quality and cleanliness standards throughout every step of the process. This certification reflects our commitment to integrity, care, and respect for the diverse communities we serve.

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Fill out the form below for access to our detailed pricing sheet with shipping estimates, packaging and size options, and special offers.

Read about our shipping and return policies here.

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What Does Regenerative Cacao Mean?

It’s a way of cultivating and sharing cacao that supports the thriving of everything it touches: the land it grows on, the families who care for it, and the people who receive it. We are committed to doing the hard and necessary work - aligning words with real life actions and creating experiences - for clients to witness the process for themselves, so they can be discerning consumers and good stewards of cacao’s message of regeneration.

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Healthy, Biodiverse Land

Our cacao is grown by the Red Ratzum Collective - 109 local Q’eqchi families who live on and tend large plots of biodiverse land on the mountainsides surrounding our center. In this environment, cacao thrives without need for chemical inputs. It grows alongside cinnamon, cardamom, black pepper, copal, allspice, and other trees whose intertwining root systems contribute to complex flavors. Our farmers use their ecological and biocultural wisdom and the helping hands of family members to plant, tend, and harvest their cacao trees each season.

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Thriving Q’eqchi Communities

Our commitment to regeneration includes the thriving of the Q’eqchi people, starting with the farmers and their families. Most cacao brands source their beans from ‘coyotes’ who buy high quantities of washed-and-dried beans for the cheapest price, and the hard-working farmers don’t earn enough.

We pay consistently high prices but don’t stop there — we build long-term relationships and create an ecosystem of interdependence.

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An End Product With Integrity

We take great care in our production process to ensure the cacao is absorbing positive energy so our customers can have the best experience possible with this medicine.

From purchase to fermentation, drying, toasting, and peeling, we bring care and integrity to each step. We do this so when our cacao reaches our customers’ doors, they experience the artistry, history, and integrity of cacao made in the original Q’eqchi way.

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The Benefits of Cacao

Cacao is both a superfood and a plant ally that nourishes both the body and the spirit. Used for centuries in ritual and daily life, cacao supports physical health, emotional clarity, and deeper connection to self and community.

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✧ Physical & Mental Well-being

  • Cacao contains theobromine, a gentle stimulant that increases energy and focus, without the crash of caffeine.

  • Compounds like phenylethylamine and anandamide are known to support feelings of well-being and uplift the mood.

  • Cacao is rich in antioxidants, minerals like magnesium, and other beneficial nutrients. These nutrients may have positive effects on cardiovascular health and cognitive function.

  • The antioxidants in cacao may help protect the body's cells from damage caused by free radicals and may be linked to overall health. Cacao is also said to regenerate stem cells. 

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✧ Emotional & Spiritual Connection

  • Ceremonial cacao is often consumed as part of spiritual rituals, as a way to connect more deeply with yourself and the medicine. It is believed that cacao can help open the heart, foster connection with oneself and others, and facilitate introspection and meditation.

  • Cacao contains theobromine and other compounds that can provide a feeling of well-being, increase mental and emotional energy, and improve mood.

  • Whether shared in community or in solo practice, cacao creates a gentle, grounded state that supports deep listening — to yourself, to others, and to life.

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FIND OUR CACAO IN THE WILD

We are Happy to be the Suppliers of some Wonderful Cacao Brands who are Sharing Cacao with their Local Communities

AWANIMA | Heartsong | Aware | Cape Cacao | Common | Roots | Kusumitra | Babs | Casa Awänímä

If you want to partner with us to share cacao with your community, reach out!

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Explore Other Products

If you become a wholesaler, you’ll also get access to purchasing our other food products, sourced from the same Q’eqchi lands that are grown alongside cacao. Of course as nature would have designed it, all of these spices and flavors blend amazingly well in a warm cup of cacao.

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Golden Milk Blends

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Turmeric and Black Pepper Capsules

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100% Cacao Juice

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Cacao Juice Molasses

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Ginger

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Chocolate Chai Powder

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Turmeric

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Cocoa Powder

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Black Pepper

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Cinnamon

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Copal

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Cardamom