Showing posts with label cacao. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cacao. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Propagating cacao

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The Talamanca region of Costa Rica has been growing cacao for millennium: the indigenous BriBri used it as both sacred medicinal and food; t...
Thursday, 17 June 2010

cacao kills cockroaches

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I believe that every creature has a place and a role in the world. However there are certain creatures which I just don't want to share ...
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Thursday, 25 March 2010

chocolate! or, lifestyle choices

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The farmer and I are making slow gradual changes in a way I like. The changes are to do with our eating habits, over the last year we have b...
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Wednesday, 4 November 2009

jammin', with fudge

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After a long hiatus I made some araza jam this morning. There's a small season starting and I was able to pick 2/3rds of a bucket of fru...
Monday, 2 November 2009

cacao harvest time

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roasted cacao beans We're in the middle of our cacao harvest. It takes a while, spread out over a course of maybe 5 weeks as we wait for...
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009

making chocolate

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I was asked how cacao beans became chocolate. Here's the simple answer, demonstrated by Flori, who helps me in the kitchen twice a week ...
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Friday, 24 July 2009

tour of the farm, part one: the upper farm

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Our farm sits about 300 meters from the ocean, as the crow flies, by road it's about 400 meters. The lower farm is level and rises back ...
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009

cacao

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I'm roasting cacao for granola bars. It's a fun job, the hard stone sound of dried bean against cast iron skillet, the growing scent...
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