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We craft award-winning single origin chocolate from fine flavor beans we source personally on our trips to Latin America.

Quarantine distraction of the day... brushfire! 🔥 We started noticing a lot of smoke in the air, then a police officer drove up our driveway to let us know the fire was in the woods along the street behind us (we gave him chocolate, of course). After walking up to the back corner of our property we saw this. Luckily the Sudbury Fire Department was all over it and put it out quickly. Thanks for keeping us all safe! .
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#sudburyfiredepartment #sudburypolice #brushfire #goodnowfarms #goodnowfarmschocolate

We’re getting good vibes from this @ghowellcoffe

We’re getting good vibes from this @ghowellcoffee morning cup of coffee and starting the week with a smile.
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#goodvibes #morningcoffee #betterthantealeaves #singleorigin #goodnowfarms

Saturday. Sun. 🙂 . . . . . . . . #saturday #su

Saturday. Sun. 🙂
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#saturday #sun #relaxing #outside

We challenged ourselves this Earth Day to bake a c

We challenged ourselves this Earth Day to bake a cake with #fullytraceable and as #ethicallysourced ingredients as possible. It’s amazing to look at a recipe and really delve into where the ingredients all come from, how they were made and whose lives they’ve touched. But this exercise is an important one to stop and do sometimes, to look at this bigger picture, and how we all live together and rely on the balance of the earth.

We employ this mindset every day when we make chocolate because it’s incumbent upon us to teach our kids and do our part to help make the world a better place... one delicious bite at a time!
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#earthday #whosyourfarmer #bakingchallenge #chocolatecake #craftchocolate #darkchocolate #madeinmassachusetts #goodnowfarms

Another beautiful spring day on the farm. 🤪 . .

Another beautiful spring day on the farm. 🤪
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#readyforspring #wtf #enoughsnowalready #goodnowfarms #goodnowfarmschocolate #springsnow

An epic day of molding. Today it’s our Special

An epic day of molding. Today it’s our Special Reserve 100% Cacao bar, made with beans from Ucayali River Cacao in Peru. These are the bars being demolded after being chilled for about 30 minutes. Next step, wrapping. Last week we molded our thickest chocolate, Esmeraldas, and this week it’s our thinnest (since there’s no sugar). This one is just as challenging but for the opposite reason- each mold has to be shaken by hand since the vibration table would splash the chocolate out of the molds. It’s always something with chocolate! .
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#funwithslomo #slomo #slomotion #darkchocolate #singleoriginchocolate #goodnowfarms #goodnowfarmschocolate #chocolatelovers #ucayalirivercacao

Picked up our weekly CSA from @siena_farms today!

Picked up our weekly CSA from @siena_farms today! A spectacular selection of locally grown fresh produce, plus @iggysbakery bread and @karmacoffeeroasters coffee - we’re in heaven! You can still sign up for their CSA and support this incredible local farm by visiting their website. Thanks everyone at Siena Farms for all you do for our community!!!
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#sienafarms #communitysupportedagriculture #buylocal #familyfarms #massachusettsgrown #madeinmassachusetts #freshveggies #goodnowfarms #goodnowfarmschocolate

After a busy month of making chocolate, this bunny

After a busy month of making chocolate, this bunny is taking a rest.
Happy Easter!🐇🍫
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#chocolateassistant #bunnyears #wonderdog #rescuedog #easterbunny #timetorelax #goodnowfarms

Happy Spring, and thumbs up to the Double Chocolat

Happy Spring, and thumbs up to the Double Chocolate Mint Brownie food experiment! 👍

If you’ve got some time on your hands and want a rich and refreshing treat, head to our blog for the recipe...the whole family will love it! (PS- we used freshly-milled @onemightymill flour in this recipe from our @siena_farms CSA farm share. Use local ingredients when you can- it’s delicious and super to support your community!)
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#brownie #chocolatetreats #foodexperiment #mintchocolate #craftchocolate #darkchocolate #madeinmassachusetts #goodnowfarms

We’re still busy making chocolate! Today we’r

We’re still busy making chocolate! Today we’re tempering and molding our Esmeraldas bar, made with beans from Ecuador - deep, rich, jammy flavors. We love this bar but it’s our least favorite chocolate to mold - because it’s low in cocoa butter it’s extremely thick and it takes a long time to vibrate each mold smooth. Even though we add our own fresh pressed cocoa butter it’s STILL super thick.
In this video you can see the chocolate takes a long time to spread out into the mold - with other origins it spreads out almost as soon as it’s deposited. But, this chocolate needs some extra taps to get it to smooth out.
For the complete molding process check out our new YouTube channel! Link is on our website. .
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#chocolatetempering #chocolatemolding #esmeraldas #cocoabutter #goodnowfarms #singleoriginchocolate #craftchocolate #darkchocolate

Are you kidding me? What’s next - locusts??? .

Are you kidding me? What’s next - locusts???
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#springhassprung #stopthesnow #whereisspringalready

This is a difficult time for everyone, with a lot

This is a difficult time for everyone, with a lot of unknowns. On Monday we closed our Boston Public Market store temporarily, and today we let our employees know they should stay home and stay safe.
We plan to bring all our incredible people back as soon as we’re told it’s safe to do so.
In the meantime our kitchen is pretty empty, but we’re committed to continuing to make chocolate. Monica and I will be doing everything ourselves for the time being so please be patient if your favorite bars are out of stock or your order takes a bit longer than usual. Our online store is open and many thanks to you all for the many online orders we’ve received in the past several days. We’re offering 15% off all bars and hot cocoa for the foreseeable future, to make it easier to stock up on everyone’s favorite comfort food (discount code: COMFORT).
Regarding food safety: we’re a licensed, FDA inspected wholesale kitchen so we already had strict sanitation procedures in place, however we’ve also implemented enhanced measures.
During the upcoming weeks look for updates and videos as we continue to make chocolate - this seems like a great time for some chocolaty distractions. And as a reminder please do what you can to support all the great, independently owned, local businesses that will be negatively affected by the current situation.
Thanks again for your support, and we hope everyone is staying safe and sane!
Tom & Monica
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#staysafe #staysane #comfortfood #strongertogether #chocolatetherapy #darkchocolate #gourmetchocolate #treatyourself #thistooshallpass #craftchocolate #madeinmassachusetts #goodnowfarms #chocolate #beantobar

Chocolate after four days in the melangeur! Last

Chocolate after four days in the melangeur! Last week we posted a video of us loading our Coto Brus nibs into one of our melangeurs on Monday morning. At that point the particle size is huge and the flavors haven’t been developed. After four days in the melangeur you can see the chocolate is now super smooth due to the smaller particle size and the cocoa butter fully enrobing the cacao solids. What you can’t tell from the video is how much the flavors have developed! We spend a lot of time customizing temperature profiles for each bean to fully realize the flavors we want to highlight. There’s nothing quite like tasting warm chocolate straight from the melangeur! This chocolate is our El Carmen from Nicaragua and it’ll be ready for sifting and tempering tomorrow!
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#goodnowfarms #goodnowfarmschocolate #puredecadence #transparenttrade #singleorigin #darkchocolate #gourmetchocolate #finechocolate #chocolatemaking #ilovechocolate #egot

A great way to start the week! Distinguished Bean

A great way to start the week! Distinguished Beans has reviewed a LOT of craft chocolate bars and we’re psyched to be among their favorites! ✨Favorite bars of all time, so far. It’s hard to choose favorites from all the incredible chocolate being made by small-batch bean-to-bar companies out there today, but these are up there. What I like about these bars, which vary wildly in character from the mellow criollo to the tangy, bold Soconusco, are their distinct, complex flavors - whether delicately or intensely, they make themselves known. There’s none of the homogenized character of mass-market chocolate, no over-roasting that has drowned out the nuance. Just beautifully balanced expression of the cacao itself. Huge shout out to these makers. Stay tuned for favorites part 2!

#beantobar #bean2bar #beantobarchocolate #craftchocolate #artisanchocolate #smallbatchchocolate #singleoriginchocolate #singleorigin #originchocolate #darkchocolate #chocolate #chocolat #chocolatebars #chocolatetasting #chocolatetastingnotes #cacao #cacaobeans #cocoa #cocoabeans

Need something to bring to dinner this weekend? St

Need something to bring to dinner this weekend? Stop by the Boston Public Market and grab a bottle of May Wine from @drinklocalma ‘s shop to pair with our Peruvian Ucayali 70% Bar. It is AMAZING how the sweet woodruff in the wine complements the chocolate’s intrinsic herbal notes, and the flavors we get include a rich, baked cinnamon. Our team at our chocolate factory loved this “educational experience” today and are ready to start the weekend!
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#perfectpairing #takemetodinner #teambuilding #madeinmassachusetts #goodnowfarms #darkchocolate #chocolateandwine #bostonfoodies #beantobar

Curious about ingredient regulations in fine flavo

Curious about ingredient regulations in fine flavor chocolate? Join us in 1 week at FCIA’s #elevatechcocolate in San Fran for the update on FDA priorities and state level issues. We are really interested to learn more about industry issues that will impact everyone and to get ahead of the curve! (And stay for the DELICIOUS chocolate show #craftchocolateexperience afterward!!!)
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#fineflavorchocolate #fineflavorchocolateindustryassociation #ingredientsmatter #transparencymatters #realfood #craftchocolate #darkchocolate #goodnowfarms

Time to make chocolate! Every Monday morning we a

Time to make chocolate! Every Monday morning we add single origin nibs to our melangeurs to start refining and conching. This week it’s our Heirloom Coto Brus beans - due to high demand we ran out of these bars last week but they’ll be in stock this coming Monday! This bar has the distinction of winning a Northwest Chocolate Festival award, Sofi award, Academy of Chocolate award and International Chocolate award - it’s the chocolate equivalent of an EGOT! 😁
The Coto Brus beans are from farmer Jim Carouba who has a beautiful 100 acre farm in the Coto Brus region of Costa Rica - for more information and pictures from our trip check out our website. This bean is still the only bean from Costa Rica certified as Heirloom by the Heirloom Cacao Preservation Fund.
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#costaricacacao #heirloomcacao #goodnowfarms #chocolatemaking #finechocolate #gourmetchocolate #darkchocolate #egot

We’ve been fans of Melissa Clark since falling i

We’ve been fans of Melissa Clark since falling in love with her seasonal cookbook “Cook This Now,” and we avidly follow her weekly “A Good Appetite” column. So we're thrilled she included us on her list of favorite craft chocolate makers in The New York Times! Also in the Times be sure to check out her very well researched, detailed and informative article “Everything You Need to Know About Chocolate,” which clears up some misconceptions about what chocolate is, how it’s sourced and how it’s made. Truly essential reading for a “good chocolate” enthusiast!
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#newyorktimescooking #melissaclark #goodnowfarms #favoritechocolates #bestchocolate #valentinesgifts

Visited our friends @ghowellcoffee for a taste tes

Our test grinders are busy! It takes a lot experi

Our test grinders are busy! It takes a lot experimenting to find just the right combination of chocolate origins and flavors - taste testing is a tough job but someone has to do it! 😋. These two grinders are probably the last two tests for a new bar we’ll release later this year. Any guesses? How about requests? 😁
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#goodnowfarms #craftchocolate #gourmetchocolate #darkchocolate #flavorexperiments #microbatchchocolate

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