We're very proud to announce that six of our bars just won Academy of Chocolate Awards! The winners are: Silver Ucayali Asochivite El Carmen with Coffee Bronze Esmeraldas Almendra with Almonds Asochivite with Maple Sugar The Academy of Chocolate Awards is an international competition and this year there were a record-breaking 1200 entries from 45 countries! We're very excited to be among the winners of one of the world's most prestigious chocolate competitions. Have a taste of our award winning...

We're excited to announce our Esmeraldas 70% bar won a Good Food Award! We're the only chocolate maker in New England to win a 2018 Good Food Award and we're proud to represent our region with incredible chocolate. Try the award winner today!

We're excited to announce that our Asochivite 77% Bar has won Silver in the "Best Dark Chocolate Bar" category at the Northwest Chocolate Festival Awards! There were more than 200 entries in the category, and we're proud to be recognized in this way by the largest chocolate festival in the United States. Try it for yourself today by ordering from our Online Store!

We just got back from a very successful trip to an amazing farm in the Puntarenas region of Costa Rica. Perched high atop a hill just outside the town of Cotu Brus, this 96 acre farm is planted with ten acres of classic Trinitario cacao. The main house at Coto Brus. The owner of Cotu Brus farm doesn't live there full time, but the trees are carefully tended by a small group of local farmers. They are able to supplement...

Perhaps not surprisingly we get this question a lot. It's an important question to address. The answer goes to the heart of why we make, and love, single origin chocolate and helps explain why our bars retain the unique flavors of the cacao from which they're made. It's a long answer, so grab a cup of our single origin hot cocoa and settle in! Two factors which have a large impact on the price of mass market chocolate bars are...

When we decided to make holiday gift sets this year, we wanted to include something that really spoke to one of the heartfelt reasons of why we make our chocolate. Yes, an assortment of premium, fine flavor chocolate is a gift in and of itself, but we also wanted to include something without a shelf life that communicated our message, too. We take pride in our high attention to detail and creation of truly great tasting chocolate bars; but we...

We're very excited to announce that our Esmeraldas bar is a 2018 Good Food Awards Finalist! The Good Food Awards honor exceptional products in 15 categories, and this year there were over 2000 entries. Products are judged on taste, but also must be responsibly produced. We're incredibly proud to be honored as Finalist! Find out more about the incredibly flavorful Esmeraldas bar in the Our Chocolate section. Or, better yet, try some for yourself!    

The next time you're passing through Logan Airport be sure to grab a Goodnow Farms bar at the GoGo Stop airport store in Terminal C! With a focus on healthy foods, this store is on Eater Boston's list of "Best Bets Inside Logan Airport!"

Cococlectic is a craft bean-to-bar club that sends exquisite, hand-picked bean-to-bar chocolate to your door each month. They've featured some of the country's best craft chocolate makers, and we're proud to be their Chocolate Maker of the Month for April! Check out their website for more information about how to join, and to read our feature story! https://cococlectic.com/collections/goodnow-farms-chocolate    

We just returned from a very successful (and warm!) sourcing trip to Ecuador and Peru, where we visited two amazing producers: Costa Esmeraldas Cacao in Ecuador and Ucayali River Cacao in Peru. [caption id="attachment_1183" align="alignnone" width="911"] Monica at Costa Esmeraldas farm[/caption] Our first stop was Costa Esmeraldas. Freddy Salazar and his family have more than two hundred acres of cacao trees on their farm south of town, where they've recently begun planting and propagating hybrid Nacional trees. Freddy took the...