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Discovery Pack
Description:R450,00 ViewJourney through the Mayan cacao story with a discovery pack, allowing to taste all 3 Cacao Source origins. 1 x 60g pack of Panan, Springs and Las Marias.
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LavaLove 454g Block
Description:R995,00 ViewWith this cacao I invite you into deep listening with a story from the heart of the earth and the heart of the sky. This cacao is the story of Izaias and Izabel: their journey, their teacher and their mission to protect the Mayan culture and the wisdom of their ancestors. It carries the energies of what is most sacred to them: their cosmovision and calendars. The 20 nawales (the energies guiding the cosmovision) come alive in this cacao, the smokiness reminding us of the volcanic soil of its origin and the fire burning at the center of all things.
It is a deep honour to share the cacao of their family, of their community and the Maya Kakchikel lineage. Image: Nehemias Sancoy
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Cacao Source 454g Block: Panan
Description:R895,00 ViewPanan: The Gentle Mother. The name “Panan” originates from the Tz’utujil phrase “Pa Nana,” meaning “for the mother,” a tribute to the nurturing feminine. This village, neighboring Chicacao, lies in an ancestral cacao-producing region believed to have been a site of devotion to the sacred feminine before colonization. Historically, cacao in this area was closely tied to goddess figures and maternal energies, with ceremonies and altars likely dedicated to their reverence.
Panan cacao is cultivated by the Ovalle family—Jose Luis, Alba Laeticia, and their daughters Alba Dalila and Mariza Maribel—on two medium-sized parcels near the village. These parcels are part of a larger mosaic of family-owned lands, continuing a legacy of care and connection to the land.
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Cacao Source 454g block: Las Marias
Description:ViewLas Marías is a living landscape, held between forest and river, where cacao is grown as an act of stewardship rather than extraction. This land is spacious and listening, with wide stretches of protected forest and cacao rooted beneath the shelter of ancient trees. Here, growth is guided by relationship—between soil and seed, shade and sun, human hands and the unseen forces that shape life.
From its earliest days, cacao is tended with patience and reverence. The earth is nourished through living practices—mountain microorganisms, soil regeneration, and offerings returned back to the land—honouring the cycles of decay and renewal. Nothing here is rushed; nothing is taken without giving back.
At harvest, women from neighbouring communities gather in rhythm, opening each pod by hand. Their work is precise and prayerful, carrying cacao from tree to path with care and dignity. Their presence is woven into the spirit of this place, a reminder that cacao is born through collective devotion.
Las Marías is the only large finca we choose to work with—not for its scale, but for its remembrance. A place where land, people, and cacao are held in right relationship.
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Cacao Source 454g block: Springs
Description:R895,00 ViewSprings cacao is born of water. In the valley of Las Victorias, where underground springs move steadily beneath the soil, cacao trees drink deeply and grow rich with life. This abundance of water gives the cacao its distinctive depth—dark, bitter, layered with whispers of coffee and ripe banana—dense and nourishing, carrying an unusually high fat content that speaks to the land’s generosity.
These trees grow in ancient groves, held within a lush canopy of coffee, bananas, zapotillos, and wild companions. It is a living forest, not a plantation—an agroforestry dream shaped by time rather than design. Here, cacao has been protected from industrial interference, its genetic lineage kept intact, unaltered by modern fertilizers or force.
Tended through ancestral Mayan farming practices, Springs cacao remains organic, wild in spirit, and deeply rooted. It is cacao in its original remembering—pure, powerful, and guided by the waters that continue to rise from below.