Meet our ceremonial cacao farmer - Arturo Perez (Peru)

Growing up in Jaen - Northern Peru, known as the birthplace of cacao where it was first domesticated some 7500 years ago, Arturo learnt about the sacredness and medicine behind this special master plant. His dream was to be able to grow cacao in an ancestral way with reverence, love, respect and tradition to bring this medicine to the world.
He now spends his time crafting the world's finest ancestral cacao in his farm near Tarapoto, Peru. He is a plant specialist and has incredible ancestral knowledge of the flora and fauna that surround his cacao. A true bushman who thrives in the jungle environment and has such a passion for connecting to Pachamama (mother earth). His cacao in honour of the tribes of Jaen and central Peru is called Uturunku - meaning the jaguar, named after the middle world of the Andean-Amazonia trilogy. Each block is crafting with love following the ancient traditions of his people who were the first in the world to domesticate cacao. It is a powerful medicine that embodies us into the present, connects us to the natural world and allows us to journey inwards to reconnect and re-birth ourselves.
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