While we've been growing cacao trees (Theobroma cacao) in our garden for several years, this is the first time we've had flowers successfully pollinated and ended up with fruit! If you had been following our journey, you would have seen our horticulturist, Travis, harvest the cocoa pod. We then sent this pod over to our chocolatier and the results were amazing! The small beans inside the fruit, commonly referred to as cocoa beans in North America, are fermented, dried, roasted, and ground to mak

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