Cacau Del Ariari among the  finest chocolate in the world 

The origins of Cacau Del Ariari began in 1968. I arrived in Colombia that year as the 15 year old son of missionaries to Colombia. My parents had joined a group called Wycliff bible translators, who's mission was to translate the Bible into the languages of native tribes of Colombia. They built Lomalinda as a base of operations. We lived at Lomalinda which is very near Humadea where our cacau trees are. As a 15 year old kid, I was in an amazing tropical paradise, doing what 15 year old kids do.

 

All these years later, I had a desire to return to that paradise of Colombia. When I learned that the cacao and chocolate from Colombia, especially the area around the Ariari river, where I lived and played as a kid, was some of the finest in all the world, Well I had my excuse to return. Thus Cacau Del Ariari was born.

 

The above photo of me next to a cacao tree, is one of 900 trees on my finca (farm in Colombia), located near Humadea in the state of Meta, Colombia (the Ariari river region). Our trees are grown and cared for using only organic methods, and always paying a fair wage above the prevailing rate.

​

From these trees we produce for sale, cocoa beans both fermented and unfermented, Cocoa powder, Cocoa butter, and artisanal chocolate.