Our Fallin' in Lovechock party was great ! For us it was saying goodbye to our small kitchen in the Baanbrugsteeg, a cosy place where we made and packed our chocolate the last year. With blood, sweat and tears we have faced all kinds of challenges in the kitchen. Too warm or too cold always one of the two, and many more crazy challenges i will not mention here, hihi. At least we learned how to make chocolate here, which is most important......

The party: A mixture of all kinds of chocks and chicks with all kinds of music ......mmm a new Lovechock flavour ?? Well we had raw afrodisiac tea, raw chocolate pie, guacemole with nachochips, vegetarian sushi's and mojito cocktails, need to say more ?
Yes......we also had some groovin' mantra live music and an over-the-top-blasting Mexican salsaband filling the whole room with warm, sexy upbeat tunes, deep into the night.  Raw food there, but a lot of us tried the exotic cocktails of Lara our latin vibed colleague that also has an organic catering LepeltjeLief. Next day i knew again; alcohol is really not my cup of tea; back to fresh green juice with lots of fresh grass and nettles. Comin' party is going to be cycling and picknicking with raw vegan sushi's (my idea) Still it was a great party to remember; the best moments of a starting company; gathering the crowds in the name of.......... Looooooove(chock)

Lovechock in Ecuador ! Feeling very thankful to have visited the mystical, lush country Ecuador, to finally connect with the very roots of our chocolate, the cacao Arriba Nacional, growing in small eco-sustainable farms. Our cacao is growing in all regions of Ecuador, from the mountains to the beach, thus giving different flavours. Every region has a different flavour of cacao and you can really taste the difference. This in big contrast with the commercial farms where they grow only CC51, a small clone of cacao that is also called the 'working horse cacao' and has a way more flat flavour. Our producer ensured us  that they do a strong quality control at the collection points to make sure the farmers only deliver the Arriba Nacionale.

I also saw the RAW processing of cacao, testing with my termometer, to be 100 % sure............Quite an experience after searching half the world for raw cacao and really wanting to be sure about the rawness !

.Ecuador is an amazing beautiful country with the most rich bio-diversity per square meter on earth. Thus coming there i experienced the full abundance not only of the varieties in cacao, but also the the amount of new fruits that i never tasted before. A country to visit again and for sure to explore more about the cacao !

Much respect for our producer in the way they protect eco-systems, the farmers, the small artisan producers like us and how they encourage the farmers to be proud on their own original local cacao-varieties.

 LOOOOOOOOOOOVE   LAURA

Lovechock in Brazil !!! Kissing the beautifull fruits into maturity, wondering through this amazing wild permaculture cacao forest. This method is called Cabruca, where you leave the big huge jungle trees, get some middle trees out and keep the rest of the forest intact, cacao growing in the shade...under the protection of the big ones. Uncomparable to the huge monoculture plantations where you see only rows of trees and nothing else, the earth almost dead without the ''herbs".....mmmm thus Save the Planet by eating quality Cacao. Viva Nossa Mae terra !! As they"say here in Brazil . Thank God there are people here carrying about the rainforest. Like Marie Louise, this amazing dutch woman growing 80 hectares of great quality cacao ! Quite a trip, as poachers roam around the land illegaly looking for animals to slaughter and as the rest of the region gets cut almost everyday to make place for.....cows (=hamburgers). Sooooo my passion for the wild cacao tree is growing  stronger.......LOOOOOVE FROm BRAZIL