To create our premium single-origin craft chocolate bars we seek out farmers who grow cacao beans with the greatest flavor potential. Our search has taken us to remote villages and small family farms throughout Latin America. We’ve been rewarded by discovering extraordinary producers of fine flavor beans.  We always trade directly and pay a premium well above commodity prices for all our beans.  For more information about our fine flavor cacao check out our “Fine Cacao" page.

We make single-origin chocolate, which means we use beans from one farm or region to create each variety of bar.  We do this because different cacao beans, much like wine grapes or coffee beans, have different flavors.  Discovering these amazing flavors is one of the true joys of eating single origin chocolate bars!

Being very particular about the cacao beans we select is just the beginning of our quest to make an intensely flavorful and smooth chocolate bar.  Here at our New England farm, every step of our process is designed to bring out the full flavor potential of each distinctive type of bean. We roast beans in small batches according to our exacting flavor profiles, carefully modifying these profiles for each type of cacao. We even take the extra step of pressing our own single origin cocoa butter for each variety of Goodnow Farms chocolate. The result is award-winning premium craft chocolate that always stays true to bean!