The magic and reality of Sierra Cacao

The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

Imagine a storybook jungle environment with jaguars, tayras, anteaters and porcupines roaming the forest floor. Above the trees, with the picture-postcard backdrop of the Sierra Nevada mountains, fly flocks of toucans and the rare military macaws looking for which trees are fruiting and which trees will make a suitable nest site.

Down at eye level as you walk between the cacao trees laden with plump and colourful mazorcas (pods), surrounded by a breathtaking diversity of other trees and plants, the various species of hummingbirds zip by like miniature fighter jets drinking sweet nectar from the beautiful tropical flowers that break up the sea of verdant green.

In the background is the ever-present sound of the mountain stream singing and dancing its way down through the giant rocks in the valley floor, inviting animals and birds to take a sip or a bath and also nourishing all of the trees that grow alongside it.

Mazorcas on the tree

The sun shines through the top canopy giving softer, dappled light to the trees below as a cooler breeze blows up the valley from the Caribbean Sea bringing a welcome relief from the jungle heat.

In this paradise, this eden, this is where Sierra Cacao grows.

Living here and growing cacao in this very real paradise is a dream, and being able to share a part of this with the world through Sierra Cacao is a mission that we are very proud to be a part of.

Kevin Foster, co-founder of Sierra Cacao, writing from the farm.

Our cacao is single origin from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, with nothing added and the cocoa butter kept in.

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