Know your bean
What we call Tabasqueño is the wild hybrid of an ancient criollo cacao from the time of the ancient Olmecs and Mayas and an amelonado cacao brought to the coast of Tabasco by a French family in the early 1900’s.
Tropical aromas of lychee and coconut in this select tribal Tabasqueño cacao have lifted the spirits of local Zoque and Tzotzil tribes for 4,000 years in Mexico's largest rainforest, the Selva Zoque.
One Bar : One Tree
Your purchase of spirited Zoque 88% helps revive the original Zoque traditions and the animals they celebrate.
The deep green ranges of Selva Zoque in Southern Mexico can be considered the birthplace of chocolate. For over 4000 years people here have cultivated cacao. In fact, the ancient Zoque and their forefathers – the Olmecs – were minds as brilliant as the Greeks of Europe. They were stargazers and kept an advanced calendar, they invented the sauna and a ball game – and then they invented a powerful sacred drink from a forest fruit they called “kakaw”. That was the birth of chocolate.
Much as today’s spirited Zoque and Tzotzil farmers feel supported by Original Beans, we feel honoured to help them revive the world’s original cacao tradition and the sustainable guardianship of the Selva Zoque rainforests.
What we call Tabasqueño is the wild hybrid of an ancient criollo cacao from the time of the ancient Olmecs and Mayas and an amelonado cacao brought to the coast of Tabasco by a French family in the early 1900’s.
The ancestrals forests of the Zoque and Tzotzil tribes in the Selva Zoque are disappearing. Our project raises the local cacao price and actively converts cattle land back into traditional home gardens, where Tabasqueño cacao is planted among fourty other crops and tree species. As our Zoque and Tzotzil farmers make a better living, they support the protection of endangered animals like the spider monkey and jaguar.
So here is what we have been working on since 2014:
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Don Jose, cacao farmer in Cerro Blanco
Tropical aromas of lychee and coconut in this select tribal Tabasqueño cacao have lifted the spirits of local Zoque and Tzotzil tribes for 4,000 years in Mexico's largest rainforest, the Selva Zoque.
One Bar : One Tree
Your purchase of spirited Zoque 88% helps revive the original Zoque traditions and the animals they celebrate.
Cacao mass*, raw cane sugar*, Cacao solids 88% minimum
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