Together, we are Crafting Ceremonial Cacao and Educational Spaces
Cacao Source exists to rebuild relationships between people, plants, and the systems that sustain life by ethically sourcing cacao, fostering inclusive collaborations, and cultivating regenerative ecosystems rooted in care, culture, and reciprocity.
Women´s Collectives
Meets the hands behind the process of your cacao.
Cacao Ritual
Deepen your personal connection to cacao. How do you ritualise your day?
Visit our Store
Build your personal connection to cacao, choose your cacao origin, get a ceremonial kit or explore wholesales.
Cacao Stewardship
You want to dedicate your life to cacao and share the medicine with your community. We walk the path with you.
In-Person Jungle Immersion
Visit Guatemala to connect to Cacao at the Source for 9-days.
In-Person Cacao Source Training Program
Visit Guatemala to connect to Cacao for 7-days.
Inside Cacao Online Community
Join our cacao study group with our full online monthly membership.
Online Cacao Courses
Study the depths of cacao at your own pace.
Handcrafted Artisanal Cacao
Discover the Diversity and Uniqueness of the Guatemalan Lands through Cacao
What We Stand For
Cacao Source believes that cacao is not a commodity, but a living relation.
We honor the lands, the hands, and the lineages that carry cacao forward.
We believe in an economy rooted in dignity, transparency, and reciprocity.
We exist to reconnect what has been fragmented — culture from commerce, ritual from source, people from Earth.
Through cacao, we cultivate a new paradigm:
One of care, collaboration, and regeneration.
Regeneration through CACAO Process
Extraction -> Reciprocity
Value flows in cycles of giving and receiving, ensuring communities and ecosystems are nourished, not extracted from.
Commodity -> Relationship
Individual -> Ecosystem
It is a shared movement rooted in collaboration, inclusivity, and diverse leadership across communities.
Cacao Source World
Cacao Sourcing
Cultural Center
Give Back to the Source
Cacao Trainings
Artisanal Incubator
La Casita del Cacao
CACAO SOURCE
ECOSYSTEM
True transformation happens through relationship with land, with culture, with each other, and with cacao itself.
Cacao Agroforestry and Farmers
Cacao Source emerged through the belief that every ceremony starts at its seed, in the cacao forest, and in the hands of its stewards. The soil, the forest, and the farmers must be part of the global cacao movement. We must care for its land and the communities that cultivate it.
Kaq'chikel'
Women's Collective
Every single cacao seed is hand-peeled in San Marcos la Laguna by kaq'chikel women's collective. Each collective is led by a leader who takes responsibility to care for the process and the women involved in it. From seed to paste, the cacao is transformed in the homes of Kaq'chikel women.
Women's Collective
Cacao Source
Leadership Team
Our diverse leadership team - indigenous, latino, and international - unites our multi-collaborative model into one vision and direction. It is the bridge between the local and global impact. Dedicated full-time to cacao, its process, its relationships, and the educational responsibility that comes with it.
Multi-Cultural Community of Cacao Stewards
Across borders and seas, cacao is in movement. We cultivate global relationships and act as a bridge between the local and global impact of cacao, expressing itself to the diversity of hearts that enjoy its medicine. Sharing cacao in right relationship is a vocation we honor and support. Thanks to this community, Cacao Source can be present in Guatemala and support our local collaborators.
Transparency
Cacao Source reveals the full journey of cacao, creating trust through openness and truth.
We publish bi-annual reports of our works, how your support is allocated, and where we are going. This is important because Cacao Source is a project created by all of us and that belongs to all of us. Transparency helps our community to keep us accountable and grow in ethics. Our numbers aren't perfect, but they are real and regenerative.
Our latest content
A free source of cacao education.
Frequently asked questions
Ceremonial cacao is minimally processed cacao made from whole cacao beans. Unlike conventional cocoa powder, it retains the natural cacao butter and is crafted to preserve the bean's full flavor and character. Many people enjoy ceremonial cacao for meditation, community gatherings, creative practices, and daily rituals.
Our cacao is sourced directly from small-scale farming communities across Guatemala. Each origin reflects its unique landscape, biodiversity, and local traditions, allowing every cacao to express its own distinct flavor and story.
The cacao seeds are processed in our production space in San Marcos la Laguna in collaboration with 8 women's collective.
Yes. Every Cacao Source block is traceable to a specific origin in Guatemala. We celebrate the diversity of each region rather than blending beans into a uniform flavor, allowing each harvest to express its natural terroir.
We believe ethical sourcing begins with relationships. We work directly with farming communities, prioritize transparency throughout our supply chain, and invest in long-term partnerships that strengthen local livelihoods, biodiversity, and regenerative agriculture. Visit our IMPACT page to find out the financial and sourcing transparency of Cacao Source.
Our cacao is harvested, fermented, sun-dried directly at the farm origin. It is then gently roasted by fire or oven, grinded in the local corn grinder, and formed into blocks in Guatemala. Every step is designed to honor traditional craftsmanship while producing a safe, flavorful, and high-quality ceremonial cacao.
Ceremonial cacao is made from the whole cacao bean, including its natural cacao butter. Cocoa powder is typically pressed to remove much of the fat and is often processed for baking. This results in differences in flavor, texture, and preparation.
Yes. We offer wholesale cacao for facilitators, cafés, retailers, wellness businesses, and distributors. Our wholesale options include 25 lb, 50 lb, and 100 lb quantities, with custom packaging available for larger orders.
While offering wholesale purchases, we invite you to join the stewardship path. Buying cacao beyond a commodity but rather into a relational life path. We do not offer a business opportunity. Cacao Source has been in a circular economy model since 2019, and we invite our community to commit to service before profit. Together, we can create a real impact from local to global hearts.
Yes. We ship directly from Guatemala to many countries around the world. In some regions, we also work with local cacao stewards who distribute Cacao Source closer to your home, reducing shipping time and environmental impact.
Guatemala is one of the ancestral homes of cacao, with a rich history of cultivation dating back thousands of years. Its diverse climates, native genetics, and cultural traditions produce cacao with remarkable complexity and connect each cup to a living heritage of stewardship.
Cacao Source is more than a cacao producer and supplier. We are a network of farmers, artisans, facilitators, and communities working together to build a transparent and regenerative cacao economy. Every purchase supports direct relationships with cacao-growing communities in Guatemala while helping preserve biodiversity, traditional knowledge, and exceptional cacao.
All international team members are compensated equally to Guatemalan team members within the Guatemalan economic context. All profit remains inside the project for the growth of the impact. All team members participate in decision-making and vision building.
SINCE 2019
120,150 lbs of regenerative cacao shared with the world.
A Movement led by an intercultural collective of farmers, Kaq'chikel women, and international cacao stewards.