This is Jonas, founder of Firefly. Today is World Chocolate Day, so I'd like to take this opportunity to share our perspectives and help you celebrate with awareness. Modern chocolate is a highly monopolized and archaic business, with most of the chocolate consumed globally produced by just a handful of corporations. T
We started off our 18-day trip to visit our cacao farming partners in Belize & Guatemala with a little rest and relaxation. In our typical adventurous style, Sena & I took a three-hour boat ride to a remote island off the southern coast of Belize, nestled within Glover's Reef. Dolphins guided us along part of t
If you could ask us anything, what would you ask? Our team at Ora Cacao is here to help you learn more about cacao! Our founder Jonas has been working with cacao since 2012, and our team imports, crafts, and supplies ceremonial cacao to clients all over the US and in more than 50 countries. We find cacao endlessly fascinating and would love to hear your questions, so that we can create better content for you! We’d love for you to craft a stronger relationship to cacao through deepening your knowledge. To do that, we’ve created an easy form below for you to submit your questions to Firefly. Feel free to share this form (using the URL/weblink) with curious colleagues, friends, and family! We’ll pull from these questions for newsletters, blog posts, and social media content. You can submit as many questions as you would like anytime! This is an open invitation. 🟢 Note: we will respond to our entire audience rather than directly back to personal emails! To make sure you see our responses: ✅ Sign up for our email newsletter @ www.ceremonial-cacao.com ✅ Follow us on social media - FB: Firefly Chocolate & IG: @cacaoceremony ✅ Visit our Cacao Journal blog: https://ceremonial-cacao.com/blogs/cacao-journal All questions are welcome, and may include: 👉🏽 Cacao Sourcing 👉🏽 Cacao Ritual Tips 👉🏽 Chocolate Industry Practices 👉🏽 Ceremonial Cacao Movement 👉🏽 Cacao Health Benefits 👉🏽 Cacao History 👉🏽 Ora Cacao's History & Vision 👉🏽 How Cacao is Made 👉🏽 Environmental/Social Impact 👉🏽 Ask us anything! Everything is welcome! What's on your mind and heart? What are you curious to learn more about? With Love, Gratitude, & Cacao, Jonas & The Ora Cacao Family
Why Firefly Cacao? What makes Firefly unique? As pioneers of Enhanced 100% Cacaos, our Enhanced Cacao collection are 100% pure ceremonial organic cacaos combined with the highest-quality superfoods, herbs, spices, and healing plants sustainably sourced from around the world. By inventing this category in the ceremoni
We started off our 18-day trip to visit our cacao farming partners in Belize & Guatemala with a little rest and relaxation. In our typical adventurous style, Sena & I took a three-hour boat ride to a remote island off the southern coast of Belize, nestled within Glover's Reef. Dolphins guided us along part of t
What if you could start every day with a new perspective and more meaning? Well, you easily can. Just replace your morning coffee with a nourishing hot cup of cacao. When you step up your morning routine with cacao, you can win your day. Here’s how it works... Cacao = New Perspective When switching to cacao you may fin
Do you realize how interconnected everything is? Let's take a look. With our new ceremonial cacao forge, we can open more hearts with cacao and make sure cacao reaches those who need it most. We can also improve the quality and consistency of our cacao with our upgraded equipment, making sure every cup is the most de
As you might know, we recently invited everyone to ask us anything about cacao! Yup, ask Firefly anything! What are you curious about? We’ve had some AMAZING questions come in. Below, we answer two critical questions about: Cacao & Slavery Assessing Farmers & Cacao Quality P.S. If you missed the blog describin
Which cacao are you enjoying the most right now? Whether or not you like “spices”, Oaxacan Spice 100% Cacao could be your new favorite ritual. If you haven't tried this “warm hug in a mug”, you are in for a treat. This Enhanced Cacao is infused with cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, and cayenne, which makes for a celebrator
All about ceremonial cacao: stories from the farms, tips on how to have cacao ceremony and make delicious recipes, and more!
It’s official… 🎉🥳 Firefly customers have left more than 2,000 reviews! 🎉🥳 We are SO grateful for your support and feedback. Your reviews inspire us at Firefly and help us better serve you. In celebration, we’ve handpicked one review from each Cacao. So, if you are curious about trying a new Cacao, read about the experi
Our last stop in Belize was a visit with Minni and the team at Maya Mountain Cacao. MMC, founded in 2010, put Belize on the craft chocolate map as the first exporter in the country to produce high-quality, centrally-fermented, transparently sourced cacao. They have 400+ certified organic smallholder cacao farming famil
Do you realize how interconnected everything is? Let's take a look. With our new ceremonial cacao forge, we can open more hearts with cacao and make sure cacao reaches those who need it most. We can also improve the quality and consistency of our cacao with our upgraded equipment, making sure every cup is the most de
❓How do you know when you are making the correct decision in life❓ It’s impossible to consider the infinite amount of information for any given choice. However, when it comes to choosing your cacao, it can be much easier and stress-free. You can choose by intuition, flavor, or intention. Yet, there is another fun stra
All about ceremonial cacao: stories from the farms, tips on how to have cacao ceremony and make delicious recipes, and more!
Once you taste the rich nutty flavor of these cacao nibs you'll never go back to what you can buy at the store. Most nibs available in stores usually use bitter and flavorless commodity raw cacao - our nibs have amazing sourcing (read next paragraph) and are lightly toasted and shelled in micro batches for optimum freshness. Cacao nibs can be added to smoothies, trail mixes, or just eaten straight. They give an energy boost and are an excellent source of magnesium, manganese, iron, and copper. These transparent trade superfood cacao nibs are grown by the 300+ farmers of the Maya Mountain Cacao Cooperative. The organic heirloom cacao is shade grown in permaculture micro-plots with diverse ecology, tended by Mopan and Q’eqchi' Maya indigenous communities. ORGANIC - VEGAN - PALEO - KETO APPROVED - SUGAR FREE - GMO FREE - SOY FREE - GLUTEN FREE Ingredients: Organic Cacao Nibs. Disclaimer ... it is very hard to make any form of drinking chocolate from these without professional equipment because they will not melt with heat. If you are interested in drinking chocolate, best to buy our ceremonial cacao. Or if you'd like to use traditional methods, there is a hand tool used in Central America called a metate, if you are lucky you can find one on eBay :-)
After the cold and rain winter season, nature beautifully springs back to life. To connect with this budding sensory experience, we choose Tantric Rose Blossom Enhanced 100% Cacao. This is a potent cacao for connecting you with your sensuality, providing emotional support, and keeping your heart open. While Tantric Ro
We continue making exciting progress on our new ceremonial cacao forge! One of the biggest benefits of this new space is that it allows us to scale our production. This directly means that more hearts can be opened with ceremonial cacao! We are making sure that heart-opening “medicine” like our ceremonial cacao remains
It’s official… 🎉🥳 Firefly customers have left more than 2,000 reviews! 🎉🥳 We are SO grateful for your support and feedback. Your reviews inspire us at Firefly and help us better serve you. In celebration, we’ve handpicked one review from each Cacao. So, if you are curious about trying a new Cacao, read about the experi
Our last stop in Belize was a visit with Minni and the team at Maya Mountain Cacao. MMC, founded in 2010, put Belize on the craft chocolate map as the first exporter in the country to produce high-quality, centrally-fermented, transparently sourced cacao. They have 400+ certified organic smallholder cacao farming famil
After our island retreat, we explored a beautiful cacao forest at Martín's family-run cacao farm in Belize. We were greeted with bottles of fresh cacao juice recently made and frozen, which made our entire group light up with excitement. Cacao juice is very sweet and will ferment quickly if not kept frozen, making stor
We started off our 18-day trip to visit our cacao farming partners in Belize & Guatemala with a little rest and relaxation. In our typical adventurous style, Sena & I took a three-hour boat ride to a remote island off the southern coast of Belize, nestled within Glover's Reef. Dolphins guided us along part of t
Our last stop in Belize was a visit with Minni and the team at Maya Mountain Cacao. MMC, founded in 2010, put Belize on the craft chocolate map as the first exporter in the country to produce high-quality, centrally-fermented, transparently sourced cacao. They have 400+ certified organic smallholder cacao farming famil
Thank you everybody for your strong support while we build our new cacao forge. It will be the largest facility for ceremonial cacao in the US! Our new home in Graton, California (population 1,700) is ideally situated for our work. It's 15 minutes south of our very first cacao facility in Windsor (Northern California),
How does cacao impact YOUR brain? 🧠 Can cacao help you access higher states of cognitive processing? 🙌🏼 Intriguing science suggests that the answer is… ✅ Yes, cacao has measurable positive impacts on how our brain processes information! Specifically, as shown in these studies below, cacao activates gamma brainwaves, on
We started off our 18-day trip to visit our cacao farming partners in Belize & Guatemala with a little rest and relaxation. In our typical adventurous style, Sena & I took a three-hour boat ride to a remote island off the southern coast of Belize, nestled within Glover's Reef. Dolphins guided us along part of t
Let's deepen your connection to cacao and grow your ritual practice. In our monthly ritual forecast, we've highlighted meaningful astrological dates that help you align with the natural cycles of Earth, significant days to celebrate and reflect with cacao, and notable historical events. This offers you a mix of cosmic
Thank you everybody for your strong support while we build our new cacao forge. It will be the largest facility for ceremonial cacao in the US! Our new home in Graton, California (population 1,700) is ideally situated for our work. It's 15 minutes south of our very first cacao facility in Windsor (Northern California),
